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Nightingales. Robins. Petrels. Loons. Mockingbirds.
You don t often see them together – in nature, much less indoors – but they ll all be birds of a feather this weekend, flocking together inside the Cathedral as Ventana Ballet launches its third season with the program
Night Birds. Each of the program s nine dances is named for a type of bird, with the movement intended to represent the essence and beauty of the animal – paying homage to its nature, without being too obvious, according to AJ Garcia-Rameau, the company s artistic director.
Actually, Garcia-Rameau concedes, when the program was being conceived, the idea of night came before birds. We started by selecting the music, as we always do, she says. Three cellists will accompany the dancers, and in the musical suggestions they made, it seemed that a night theme emerged: Tchaikovsky s