Nevada Ballet Theatre presents Dance Dance Dance

Don't miss NBT performing George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco with music by Johann Sebastian Bach - a part of Dance Dance Dance! opening Nevada Ballet Theatre's 40th Anniversary Season along with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on the Las Vegas Strip at Paris Las Vegas October 29 & 30.  
 
In the first movement of Concerto Barocco, two ballerinas personify violins, while a corps of eight women accompanies them. In the second movement, a largo, the male dancer joins the leading woman in a pas de deux. In the concluding allegro section, the entire ensemble expresses the syncopation and rhythmic vitality of Bach's music.
 
George Balanchine is a revolutionary figure in ballet and the founder of what came to be New York City Ballet. Taking classicism as his base, he heightened, quickened, expanded, streamlined, and even inverted the fundamentals of the 400-year-old language of academic dance. Although at first his style seemed particularly suited to the energy and speed of American dancers, especially those he trained, his ballets are now performed by all the major classical ballet companies throughout the world.

NBT will also be performing James Canfield's Cinq Gnossiennes - with live accompaniment and Canfield's Up, a ballet performed to versions of Richards Rogers "Blue Moon."

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will be performing two Las Vegas Premiere's - Jiří Kylián's Petite Mort and Sharon Eyal's Too Beaucoup.

Listen to KNPR's "State of Nevada's" interview with Glenn Edgerton (Artistic Director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago) and James Canfield discuss the pieces being performed.