Miami City Ballet’s Contemporary Dance Series Program 2

Program 2 of Miami City Ballet's Contemporary Dance Series will show the Company Premeire of Twyla Tharp’s Yemaya, set to music by the famous Grammy-award-winning Buena Vista Social Club and featuring nine dancers. The title of the work refers to the Afro-Cuban goddess from the religion known as Santeria. Yemaya was choreographed in 1998 and is the first work that Tharp has set to Cuban music. Also on the program is Edward Villella’s Gismonti Brasil, choreographed in 2003 and danced to the music of Brazilian avant-garde jazz composer Egberto Gismonti. The ballet features 14 dancers and is a refection of Gismonti’s music with no specific narrative. The work, however, makes reference to Brazilian dance elements such as Samba, bossa nova, and the martial arts-dance form capoeira. The Company will also perform Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet Liturgy, a pas de deux (dance for two) set to music by Arvo Pärt and another work choreographed by Miami City Ballet dancer Daniel Baker.

Program 2 will take place Friday, February 23 at 8pm and Saturday, February 24 at 2pm and 8pm at the Colony Theater. Please call Miami City Ballet Box Office toll-free at (877) 929-7010 or go to www.miamicityballet.org for tickets.