Lake Tahoe Dance Collective will current the 13th annual Lake Tahoe Dance Competition from July 22-25, that includes artists from New York Metropolis Ballet, Broadway, Boston Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet and extra. A gap night time gala in Tahoe Metropolis at William B Layton Park marks the start of the Competition, adopted by Tahoe Metropolis Group Night time, Kings Seashore Group Night time and a closing night time profit in Incline Village.
With a mission to current the best high quality skilled dance and dance instruction in North Lake Tahoe, Christin Hanna and Constantine Baecher began the Lake Tahoe Dance Competition in 2013, now in its second decade. Lake Tahoe Dance commissions new works, preserves the legacy of rarely-seen classics and fan favorites, whereas providing the best caliber artists a inventive platform.
A number of the artists featured on the 2025 Lake Tahoe Dance Competition embrace Lia Cirio and Paul Craig (Boston Ballet), Melody Mennite Walsh (Houston Ballet), Dwayne Brown (Metropolitan Opera Ballet), Amber Neff (New Chamber Ballet), Taylor Stanley and Indiana Woodward (New York Metropolis Ballet), and Stephen Hanna (New York Metropolis Ballet/Broadway).
Competition highlights:
Tarantella, George Balanchine
Dancers: Daniel Ulbricht, Indiana Woodward
This sprightly music, regardless of its Italian air, was composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869), a New Orleans–born composer and pianist who made a big influence in his temporary life. Gottschalk was a real American unique, and his achievements had an important influence on composers and performers who adopted. Balanchine admired this explicit composition and choreographed a pas de deux for Patricia McBride and Edward Villella – two virtuosic dancers – in 1964. In his Full Tales of the Nice Ballets, Balanchine wrote of the music, “It’s a dazzling show piece, stuffed with velocity and excessive spirits. So, I hope, is the dance, which is ‘Neopolitan’ for those who like and ‘demi-caractère.’ The costumes are impressed by Italy, anyhow, and there are tambourines.”
New Fee, Holly Curran
Dancers: Amber Neff and Dwayne Brown
This can be Holly Curran’s second fee for the Lake Tahoe Dance Competition.
Floreciente, Melody Mennite
Dancers: Melody Mennite and Stephen Hanna, with workshop college students.
Floreciente means to flourish or bloom. There was a time, not way back, once we have been nearer to the rhythms of the pure world. We extra intimately belonged to this Earth and concurrently to one another. Discovering ourselves out of stability in a contemporary period, we now have turn into disoriented and trying to find clearer path ahead. We glance again and see that regardless of all our distractions, natures rhythms, cycles, and knowledge proceed to carry and maintain us. Take heed to the tune of nature, that rhythm of your personal heartbeat, it’s the deepest place in you that claims you might be dwelling. Could we bloom.
Chaptered in Fragments, Lia Cirio
Chaptered in Fragments was Lia Cirio’s first piece for Boston Ballet’s essential stage. She started choreographing it through the pandemic and accomplished it as they have been rising from that point. It premiered in 2022. Lia selected the title as a result of the piece felt prefer it had grown alongside the completely different chapters of our lives…the dancers and she or he weren’t the identical folks they have been once we began creating it, and by the point it was carried out, they’d modified. The primary pas de deux couple (significantly the girl) within the piece goes on an emotional journey, however Lia all the time felt there was extra to their story. When Christin Hanna invited her to create one thing for the competition, it felt like the proper alternative so as to add a brand new fragment to that chapter. Lia is worked up to dive into it once more, each as an individual and as a choreographer, she is continually evolving.
Lake Tahoe Dance Collective’s mission is to advertise classical, fashionable and up to date dance of the best high quality within the Lake Tahoe space by means of efficiency, schooling, and outreach, enriching the group as a complete as a cultural vacation spot.
What began as Tahoe Youth Ballet in 2009, with a single efficiency has turn into an organization and college that presents a spread of performances for Lake Tahoe audiences all year long, together with its personal productions in addition to visiting dance corporations.
For extra info, go to www.laketahoedancecollective.org/laketahoedancefestival.
