Our Season will conclude with the second year of the Bold Moves Festival. The production features two diverse programs, each with its own perspective on dance and its relationship to humanity. The featured works from some of dance’s most sought-after choreographers fluctuate between vehicles for emotional storytelling to choreography that focuses on the power and physicality of movement. Audiences will enjoy pieces including Cincinnati Ballet resident choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s SIT, Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House, William Forsythe’s In the middle, somewhat elevated, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Written and Forgotten, and Garrett Smith’s Façades. The production will also include guest artist Compañía Irene Rodríguez. The Festival schedule is uniquely designed for you to experience both programs over two weeks.
Choreography: Irene Rodríguez
Music: Cristian Puig, Damir Fuentes
Intermission
Choreography: Jennifer Archibald
Music: Hang and Balance, Taufiq Qureshi, Maro Jailo
Choreography: William Forsythe
Music: Thom Willems
Cincinnati Ballet is pleased to announce Compañía Irene Rodríguez will be performing during this season’s Bold Moves Festival, June 9-18, 2023 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. With more than 20 years of experience, Irene Rodríguez has been a teacher, rehearsal teacher, and choreographer of Spanish Dance and Flamenco Style for prestigious dance institutions, including the National Ballet of Cuba. “I am focused on creating new trends in order to evolve the Flamenco dance by fusing it with everything that the stage vocabulary has to offer from the dramatic arts, to contemporary dance currents, to native rhythms,“ Rodríguez said. She has also been director of the Flamenco and Spanish Dance Program at the world-renowned School at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the US and has taught many Master Classes internationally. Her work as a choreographer includes multiple titles performed by Kansas City Ballet, the Spanish Ballet of Cuba, the Next Generation Ballet, and the National Academy of Spanish Dance; among others.
Video courtesy of Irene Rodríguez
Choreography, Lighting, Costume Design, and Scenography: Anabelle Lopez Ochoa
Music: Aris Dimitriadis, Rene Aubry, Lisa Gerrard, Manuel Wandji, Madeleine Peyroux
Staging: Anastacia Holden
Intermission
Choreography: Val Caniparoli
Music: Antonín Dvořák
Intermission
Choreography: Garrett Smith
Music: Philip Glass, George F. Handel, Antonio Vivaldi
Val Canaparoli Chorographer Sponsor – Donald Beck and Dr. Lawrence Eynon
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Irene Rodriguez Choreographer Sponsor- Karen F. Maier and Delane Starliper and The Victoria Morgan Women’s Choreographer and Artist Fund
William Forsythe Choreographer Sponsor- John and Jen Stein
Garrett Smith Choreographer Sponsor- Linda and Gary Greenberg
Jennifer Archibald Choreographer Sponsor- Joni Herschede Fund
Charles Scott Riley III Foundation
Jody and Debbie Brant
Peter T. Joseph Foundation
Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund*
