At Sixes and Sevens - Ballet

This event took place on January 16, 2015. See upcoming events in Vero Beach.

Where: VBHS Performing Arts Center 1707 16th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960

Program 2 arrives at the VBHS Performing Arts Center January 16 at 8:00pm and January 17 at 2:00pm and 8:00pm. Tickets are $10-$50 and are available online at www.balletverobeach.org or by calling 772-905-2651.

At Sixes and Sevens, Ballet Vero Beach's second program of the 2014-2015 season, will feature the company's first foray into the work of George Balanchine, perhaps the greatest choreography of the twentieth century. Ballet Vero Beach passed through a rigorous screening process to even be allowed to mount Valse Fantaisie ( The George Balanchine Trust), one of the choreographer's short, but supremely challenging, gems. Paul Boos, repetiteur for the George Balanchine Trust, began working with the company in August to prepare the work. Boos, a former member of New York City Ballet, has staged Balanchine's work for such companies as The Paris Opera Ballet, and The Bolshoi Ballet.

The program will also feature Go for Barocco, a comedic masterwork by Peter Anastos. The work is a staple of the repertoire of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male comedy troupe where both Ballet Vero Beach Artistic Director Adam Schnell, and Ballet Master Camilo A. Rodriguez danced previously, but Ballet Vero Beach has obtained permission from Anastos (who also worked directly with Ballet Vero Beach in rehearsals) to perform the ballet with a casting configuration never before seen onstage.

Rounding out the program is Finch Concerto, a world premiere by Schnell set to a never before choreographed score by Welsh harpist Catrin Finch. “At Sixes and Sevens is not simply a play on words (each work has a cast of six or seven dancers), the three works on the program are varied and even disparate in their scope and style, hence the use of the British phrase as the title of the program. In embracing this disparity, the program promises to use the powerful language of dance to plumb the depths of what ballet in the twenty-first century can be.