PERFORMING ARTS
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SEASON OF THE ARTS
under the title Premieres in -anuary, and closes its season
in April with another group of ballets under the title of
Comedy Tonight.
“We are the only professional dance company between
3alm Beach and 2rlando,µ says Artistic 'irector and &E2
Adam Schnell.
,n the -anuary performances, audiences will see the
company premiere of Matthew Carter’s romantic French
Songs, staged to -oseph &anteloube·s Songs of the Auvergne.
&amilo A. 5odrigue, ballet master and principal dancer at
Ballet Vero Beach, choreographed Ritornello which will be
performed, as will Ariel *rossman·s eTuisitely crafted Ori,
which received rave reviews when showcased at the 2017
Riverside Dance Festival.
7he April trio of performances feature 3eter Anastos·s
razor-sharp parody of the neo-classical dance Go for Barocco
and Rodriguez’s touching and hilarious Hang On, No Need To
Be Lonely. 7he third performance in April is of another Anastos
worN, La Trovatiara Pas de Cinq. Meant to mimic the ballets
that eist within the great 9erdi operas, this swashbucNling
worN, with its band of female pirates, will have audiences
laughing.
Schnell taNes a philosophical view of ballet. ´:e live here,
we worN here, and we contribute to a stronger and more
vibrant community,µ he says. ´'ance, liNe music, removes
the barrier of spoNen or written language from the arts eperience.
:hat the audience sees is human beings eploiting
their greatest physical, mental, and emotional potential and
that is a pretty powerful and uplifting eperience.µ
.ia )ontaine, eecutive director of the historical Lyric 7heatre
in Stuart, is thrilled to be able to bring two 1ational *eo- >>
National Geographic Live: Standing at the Water’s Edge with photogra-
Wher, writer and marine Iiologist *ristina Mittermeier, who Irings her
Wassion to the 3`ric ;heatre :he talRs aIout, and shows, striRing Whotos of
her conseration worR and how WeoWle and coastlines can coe_ist
Undersea photojournalist Brian
:Rerr` has sWent , hours
underwater and comes to the
Lyric Theatre to show and talk
aIout his stunning Whotos from
the icy North Atlantic to the
7acific 6cean in a National
Geographic Live presentation
of Ocean Soul.