New York Theatre Ballet at New York Live Arts

The program will include two world premieres by Nicolo Fonte and Pam Tanowitz. Nicolo Fonte is choreographing There, And Back Again, a 20-minute piece for four dancers inspired by the Brothers Grimm classic story “Hansel & Gretel” in a wholly contemporary esthetic, performed to a new score composed by Kevin Keller for piano and violin. Pam Tanowitz will create One Plus One, a new 13-minute ballet for ten dancers set to the Andante movement of Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major #15, which will be played live on piano two times at different tempos. The dance is based on the “pas de deux” and will be used as a metaphor for the age-old notion of unrequited love. The company will also revive Merce Cunningham’s trio Cross Currents, staged by Jennifer Goggans, performed to an arrangement by John Cage of Conlon Nancarrow’s Rhythm Studies for Player Piano Nos. 1-6. The evening is completed by a revival of Keith Michael’s The Alice-In-Wonderland.