2025 Performances
(I Love You, My Darling)
A 2.5-minute video of a Spanish song and improvised Baroque dance for the Thanksgiving Holiday, featuring Inma Heredia!
An Afternoon of Dance: In-Studio Performance
Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB)
115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945.
A free community event featuring BALAM’s Tari Coba Kecil Oleg (A Little Balinese Bumblebee Dance) and the premiere of Cumbia Graciosa—two works created for MSB’s adult students as part of the Spring and Fall Dance Adventure 2024/2025 series. Also included is Chaconne de Phaëton (circa 1704) a Baroque dance masterpiece performed by BALAM’s Artistic Director, Carlos Fittante.
A free community event featuring BALAM’s Tari Coba Kecil Oleg (A Little Balinese Bumblebee Dance) and the premiere of Cumbia Graciosa—two works created for MSB’s adult students as part of the Spring and Fall Dance Adventure 2024/2025 series. Also included is Chaconne de Phaëton (circa 1704) a Baroque dance masterpiece performed by BALAM’s Artistic Director, Carlos Fittante.
Oleg Tambulilingan (Love Dance of the Bumblebees)
9th Annual NICE Festival – Oyster Shell Park, 95 North Water Street. Norwalk, CT 06854
Drawing inspiration from the Commedia dell’Arte, BALAM’s Toshinori Hamada joins legendary jazz flutist Lew Tabackin for a groundbreaking collaboration blending live jazz and an improvised Noh-Commedia dance in a BALAM costume and mask!
Shogun’s Garden
11-1 Koyamachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken, 420-0852, Japan
(Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Shizuoka.)
CANCELED DUE TO BAD WEATHER!
Saturday, June 7 | 2:00-2:20 p.m.
Dance for World Community - FREE!
Stage 2 (near Putnam St, Cambridge, MA)
Tari Coba Kecil Oleg (A Short Balinese Bumblebee Dance), & Harlequin's Whimsical Love Dance
Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre's15th annual Dance for World Community in Cambridge, MA.
Baroque Dance Fantasies about England, France, and Spain.
St Malachy's Church
239 West 49th Street, NYC
Saturday, April 26, 2:00 pm | FREE
Spring Spotlight: An In-Studio Performance! Tari Coba Kecil Oleg-Parts 1 & 2
(BALAM’s Bumblebee Dance for adult dance students) and the work-in-progress, Harlequin’s Whimsical Love Dance.
Marblehead School of Ballet
115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945
Photo Credit: BALAM Dance Theatre
A Virtual Offering: Y Se Amoran Dos Caballos (And Two Horses Fell In Love)
A 2.5-minute video of a Spanish Sevillanas song and dance for St. Valentine's Day, featuring Inma Heredia!
2025 Guest Lecture Performances
Friday, November 21 | The Baroque Body and Its Physical Culture (Guest Presentation)
Early Modern Fashion: Men in Tights (Course), Professor Elizabeth Morano
New School–Parsons, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
Friday, October 24 | Sprezzatura: New York Style (Guest Presentation)
How to be a Renaissance Person, Professor Karen Raizen
Bard College, 30 Campus Road, Annandale‑on‑Hudson, NY 12504
Fridays, October 10, 17, November 14, and December 5 | Introducing Baroque Dance to Students of Baroque Music (Guest Presentation, 4-class series)
QC School of Arts - MUSIC 7772: Baroque Performance Practice (Course), Dr. Masayuki Maki
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College-City University of New York
65‑30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 11367
This initiative is funded by the Queens College School of Arts as part of its Multidisciplinary Project Grants program. Instagram | LinkedIn
Monday, September 22 | Teruna Jaya: A Dance Journey into
Balinese Culture (Guest Presentation)
World Dance Cultures (Course), Professor Patricia Beaman
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts Program
Silver Center - 31 Washington Place, Room 507. New York, NY 10003
Silver Center - 31 Washington Place, Room 507. New York, NY 10003
Thursday, April 10 | Sevillanas Dance Workshop (Guest Presentation)
World Dance and Global Perspectives (Course), Professor Kathryn Posin
New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study
1 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, February 6 | Body Trip to Bali (Guest Presentation)
World Dance and Global Perspectives (Course) Professor Kathryn Posin
New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study
1 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003
Fall 2025 Dance Adventure
Thursdays, September - November. 6:15-7:15 | Cumbia Graciosa
A Cumbia inspired choreography designed for adult beginners.
Marblehead School of Ballet
115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA
Pre-registration is required. Call: (781) 631-6262.
Spring 2025 Dance Adventure
Thursdays, January -April | Tari Coba Kecil Oleg - Part 2
The second choreographic section of a Balinese-inspired dance designed for adult beginners.
Marblehead School of Ballet
115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA
Pre-registration is required. Call: (781) 631-6262.
The Legacy of Mariano Parra (1933-2024)
BALAM records the various renditions of the Spanish dance Sevillanas, Corraleras, Rocieras, and Boleras, taught by New York's Spanish Master Mariano Parra.
Barbara Romero, BALAM's Spanish dance expert and an acolyte of Parra, preserves his pedagogical legacy rooted in the schools of La Meri in New York and Luisa Pericet in Madrid, Spain.
Also documented is the transitional dance La Cachucha (1836), performed in the mid-19th century by the Romantic ballerina Fanny Elssler. Photo Credit: The Parra Family Archive & BALAM Dance Theatre
2024
Wind Chime, Sunday, December 22, at 2 p.m. | FREE
Reservations required. Email: nywindbell@gmail.com
An original music-drama created and presented by BALKAM's Toshinori Hamada, Wind Chime is inspired by a true heroic story from the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Japan. BALAM will debut the dance, Ritual Sarabande, in this semi-staged reading.
Anthroposophical Society
138 W 15th St, New York, NY 10011.
This project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the funding agencies: The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the Howard Gilman Foundation and administered by LMCC.
Passacaille: A Baroque Dance Extravaganza
BALAM Dance Theatre guest performs with La Fiocco in Pasacaille: A Baroque Extravaganza.
Saturday, October 26, 7:30 p.m.
Christ Congregation
50 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ.
Sunday, October 27, 3:00 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Church
6587 Upper York Rd
Solebury, PA
Tickets: $30 general audience, $10 students with ID.
SEATING IS LIMITED!!! Early reservations are strongly recommended.
Buy your tickets now by credit card using this link below, or send a check to,
La Fiocco,
PO Box 134
Carversville, PA 18913.
BALAM's Repertoire (* premieres)
* The Old Bachelor (Baroque Dance Suite,) and
* Harlequin Goes Bird Watching with Yumiko Niimi and Carlos Fittante
Folia: A Spanish Baroque Fantasia with Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante
Musicians
Jeremy Rhizor, Kristina Giles, and Vita Wallace, baroque violins
Margrét Hjaltested, baroque viola
Donna Fournier, baroque cello
Jorge Torres theorbo & baroque guitar
Owen Davitt, recorder, harpsichord, tambourine
Lewis R. Baratz, artistic director, recorder, harpsichord
Impressions of The Alhambra
BALAM Dance Theatre guest performs with the Mosaic Dance Theater Company in
Impressions of The Alhambra
Sunday, November 24, 7:30 p.m.
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
248 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023 • (212) 787-1178
Tickets Info. forthcoming
Impressions of The Alhambra brings to life the beautiful prose of Washington Irving’s 1829 visit to the enigmatic Alhambra Palace in southern Spain. In this imaginative production, experience another time through an artful blend of projected images of historical paintings animated by Period, Spanish, and Middle Eastern Dance styles.
This project is made possible by funds from the Essex County Division of Cultural Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Impressions of The Alhambra
Dance for World Community
Stage 2 on Massachusetts Ave. near Putnam Ave.
BALAM Dance Theatre and the Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB) perform together in the 14th annual Dance for World Community Festival, presented in Cambridge, MA by the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre.
We will perform the Spanish dances Las Niñas del Pasodoble, choreographed for the MSB’s students, and El Vito, a Spanish Escuela Bolera dance solo performed with castanets with choreography staged by New York’s Mariano Parra (1933-2024).
We will perform the Spanish dances Las Niñas del Pasodoble, choreographed for the MSB’s students, and El Vito, a Spanish Escuela Bolera dance solo performed with castanets with choreography staged by New York’s Mariano Parra (1933-2024).
Fiesta Odalan 45!
Celebrating 45 years of presenting contemporary cultural dance.
Dance Photo Credit: Julie Lemberger. NYC Skyline from Openverse.com
Free Public Showing. Donations encouraged.
Sunday, May 19, 3-4:30 p.m.
Studio H
Gibney: Agnes Varis Arts Center (280 Broadway),
entrance on 53A Chambers St.
New York, NY 1007
Limited Seating. Confirmed reservations required.
email: info@balamdancetheatre,org, or call: 646-361-9183
PROGRAM
1. Oleg Tambulilingan, (Love Dance of the Bumblebees), a traditional Balinese Dance Duet
2. La Zarzamora, a Spanish song
3. El Barreño, a Central American folk-dance duet
4. Huicho, an 18th Century Peruvian Dance with live Baroque guitar, and singing.
5. Mariones, a Baroque guitar solo
6. Caballo de Rejoneo (premiere). Live singing and a Sevillanas duet dancing with castanets
7. Harp and Butterfly, solos by Isadora Duncan, Marie Carstens-guest artist
8. Ramayana: Abduction of Sita, BALAM's signature Balinese fusion dance story ballet inspired by the Hindu epic.
ARTISTS
Nani Devi, Inma Heredia, Robin Gilbert, Yumiko Niimi, Steven Jeltsch, Ryan Closs, Eugenia Forteza, Barbara Romero, Toshinori Hamada, Carlos Fittante, Marie Carstens-guest artist
Body Trip to Bali: A Performance/Masterclass
Thurs. Feb. 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Body Trip to Bali: A Performance/Masterclass
NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study,
World Culture Dance (closed event)
BALAM performs the spectacular Balinese solo fan dance, Terunajaya and conducts a masterclass in Balinese dance.
Photo Credit: Selena Cuca
2023 Season
Fri.-Sun., Dec. 8-10, The Christmas Show. CANCELED DUE TO COVID19
St George Theatre
35 Hyatt St, Staten Island, NY
Tickets $19-$68
Box Office: 718-442-2900, ext. 1
In-person at the Box Office (Open 12:00pm – 5:00pm, Tuesday-Friday)
Online at Ticketmaster.com anytime
In-person at the Box Office (Open 12:00pm – 5:00pm, Tuesday-Friday)
Online at Ticketmaster.com anytime
Sat., Dec. 2, 2:00-2:30 p.m. Free Showing-El Vito, Las Niñas del Pasodoble
Marblehead Christmas Walk
115 Pleasant St,
Marblehead, MA
(781) 631-6262
Fri., Oct. 20, 9-11a.m. Latin Dance Show. BALAM guests with the Phyllis Rose Dance Company
Rhodes Academy, Hempstead, NY
Sat., Oct. 7, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Celebración de la Cultura Hispana con Baile y Canción / Celebrating Hispanic Culture with Dance and Song. Free.
Hempstead Public Library
115 James A Garner Way
Hempstead, NY 11550
(516) 481-6990
BALAM's new 50-minute program celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month! Featured in this program is El Barreño, a charming folkloric dance from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. The program also stars entertainer, hostess and comedian extraordinaire -- Inma Heredia -- singing, dancing, and introducing the performance’s diverse works listed below.
Sat., Sept. 23, Dance for World Community Festival 2023, 12:50-1:00 p.m. Stage 2 (Mass Ave near Putnam Ave), Cambridge, MA. FREE
Due to inclement weather, this event has been postponed until June 2024
BALAM performs Soleá de Arcas and Las Niñas del Pasodoble in Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre's 14th annual dance festival.
Sat., July 29. 1:30 p.m. Summer Dance Intensive Performance, Marblehead School of Ballet. FREE
Enjoy a range of repertory highlighting ballet, and modern, including BALAM's new Spanish Pasodoble for three student dancers of the Marblehead School of Ballet, 115 Pleasant St, Marblehead, MA 01945
RSVP. Seating is limited. Reservations must be made in advance.
Contact: msb@havetodance.com or call 781-631-6262
June 15 - June 25, The Lady of the Camellias, by
Shakespeare. FREE
BALAM has choreographed for a cast of actors’ dances inspired by the 19th century ballroom suite.
Castle Clinton National Monument, The Battery (Battery Park) New York, NY 10004
Thurs., June 15 - Sun., June 18 & Thurs., June 22 - Sun., June 25 at 6:30 pm.
BALAM has choreographed for a cast of actors’ dances inspired by the 19th century ballroom suite.
Castle Clinton National Monument, The Battery (Battery Park) New York, NY 10004
Thurs., June 15 - Sun., June 18 & Thurs., June 22 - Sun., June 25 at 6:30 pm.
Sun., June 4 & 5, 7-8:30 pm. Federico Garcia Lorca Festival presented by Danisarte
La Nacional, 239 West 14th St, 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10011
Tickets: General Admission: $30 • Seniors & Students: $25 per evening, or
the Cultural Passport, a special offer to attend both shows for $45.
On Sun., June 4, BALAM presents three Escuela Bolera dances: Solea de Arcas (1870), El Vito and Panaderos de la Flamenca (late 18th century). Also featured on Sunday's program are Inma Heredia: Spanish Show woman (Singer/Dancer/Actress), and Tali Roth: Israeli Concert Guitarist.
Thurs., May 25, 1-2 pm. Return to the Garden of Love • FREE
St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church
239 W 49th St, Manhattan, NY 10019 • (212) 489-1340
Gotham Early Music Scene's (GEMS) Midtown Concerts series presents the debut of BALAM's sequel program Return to the Garden of Love featuring excerpts from the music Concerts Royeaux by Francois Couperin, Baroque dance by Carlos Fittante, a traditional Balinese mask, and an original script by Inma Heredia. View the concert in a live broadcast at the GEMS website or YouTube channel.
• Yumiko Niimi - dancer
• Carlos Fittante - dancer
• Mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza
• Lisa Terry - viola Parthenia Viol Consort
• Ryan Closs - theorbo
• Dongmyung Ahn -violin
• Dongsok Shin - harpsichord
Sun., April 16, 1-2 pm. Monthly Dance Adventure-Sevillanas Rocieras
Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB)
115 Pleasant Street
Marblehead, MA 01945
(781) 631-6262
$20. Registration required. Drop-ins welcome. Ages 12 and up. No previous experience needed.
In studio and virtual lesson format
March 30-April 2, Metamorphosis: Wu Song and the Tiger,
Chaconne de Phaeton, and Chaconne de Arlequin
BALAM joins Voices of Music to present an original program of live music and dance.
• Yihan Chen-guest pipa virtuoso, and Kaili Chen-guest Chinese dancer
March 30 Palo Alto
April 1 San Francisco
April 2 Berkeley
March 4, Chaconne de Phaeton (Dongmyung Ahn, Baroque violin.)
Faculty Showcase at QC Arts
Lefrak Concert Hall at Queens College-City University of New York
Feb. 9, Terunajaya - A Balinese Dance Performance/Masterclass/ and Lecture
World Dance and Cultures, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
2022 Season
Dec. 9-12, The Christmas Show. St George Theatre, Staten Island, NY
Nov. 23. Caton School Brooklyn, NY
BALAM and Ballet Fiesta Mexicana join to present Hispanic Heritage Dance Extravaganza. Photo: Yloy Ybarra taken by Julie Lemberger
Wed., Oct. 19 6:30-8:00 p.m. FREE
Hispanic Heritage Festival Program
BALAM guest performs with the Phyllis Rose Dance Company
Brentwood Middle School, Brentwood, Long Island, NY 11717
Tues., Oct. 18, 11-1 pm. FREE
Danzas de ida y vuelta: A Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration!
Presented by Hispanic Culture Arts
Williamsbridge Oval, Bronx, NY
By subway, take the 4 Train to Mosholu Parkway stop, the D Train to the Norwood/Bedford Park stop, the MetroNorth to the Botanical Gardens stop.
Sat. Sept. 24, 4 pm. Arts on the Lake, 640 NY-52, Carmel Hamlet in New York 10512
Taking Flight, an Afternoon of Modern & Cultural Dances
BALAM guest performs with the Putnam County Dance Project.
Sat., July 9, 2:45-2:52. FREE. NICE Festival (Norwalk International Cultural Exchange), 10 North Water Street in Norwalk, CT.
Thurs., April 21, 1:15-1:55 p.m. FREE
Garden of Love in Miniature
Presented by GEMS Midtown Concerts, and offered in honor of Gladys Isabel Fajardo Luhrs
Church of the Transfiguration, 1 East 29th Street, NYC
Live online at: Watch Live - Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc. (gemsny.org)
Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully's Entree d'Apollon transcribed for solo harpsichord by Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, Francois Couperin's Concerts Royaux 1 and 2, Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Sans Freyeur Dans Ce Bois.
2021 Season
Wednesday, October 6, 7-8 p.m. FREE
Photo: Julie Lemberger
BALAM Festival: Live Cultural Dance and Music
La Nacional: Spanish Benevolent Society, 239 West 14th Street, New York, NY. Reservations required.
• Oleg Tambulilingan (Love Dance of the Bumblebees), a Balinese dance duet with Nani Devi and Carlos Fittante;
• Rama and Sita, a duet from B ALAM’s Balinese/Ballet fusion dance Ramayana story ballet, with Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante;
• Kamisama, a Japanese Noh dance solo, performed by Toshinori Hamada;
• El Bosque (The Forest), a Baroque/Balinese fusion duet, performed to the Toccata Arpeggiata (1604) by Giovanni Kaspberger, played live by Ryan Closs and danced by Yumiko Niimi and Carlos Fittante;
• Scottish Tunes (1742), a Baroque musical suite, is performed by Lisa Terry on gamba and Ryan Closs on theorbo;
• La Madrileña, a mid-19th century Spanish Escuela Bolera duet presented at the Paris Opera, performed by Barbara Romero and Carlos Fittante; and
• Panaderos de la Flamenca, an early 19th century Spanish Escuela Bolera dance, in the Andalusian style.
This program was made possible by the New York City Artist Corps and Friends of BALAM.
