(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – New York-based Tom Gold Dance, an ensemble featuring dancers from New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet as well as musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), will perform works by choreographer Tom Gold and Jerome Robbins’s seminal “Concertino” at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 8pm. One of the pieces is choreographed to the music of avant-garde composer John Zorn; other words are danced to works by Stravinsky, JS Bach, and George Gershwin.

Tom Gold Dance, a New York City-based classical dance company founded and led by former New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold, makes its Berkshires debut with a mixed-repertory program including Tom Gold’s “La Plage” (2013), “Gershwin Preludes” (2009), “All the Lonely People” (2015), and “Connect the Dots” (2013); as well as Jerome Robbins’ seminal Concertino (1982).

Scheduled to perform are Miami City Ballet principals Jeanette Delgado and Patricia Delgado; New York City Ballet corps de ballet Sara Adams, Marika Anderson, Daniel Applebaum, Likolani Brown, Preston Chamblee, Meaghan Dutton-O’hara, Andrew Scordato, and Kristen Segin; Boston Symphony Orchestra violist Michael Zaretsky; Boston-based pianist Vytas Baksys; and Tom Gold Dance Founder and Artistic Director Tom Gold.

La Plage for nine dancers is a journey from the deep jungle to the mysterious “la plage”. The score, by John Zorn, is from his album “The Gift.” The “Gershwin Preludes” pas de deux evokes an American style of dance reflected in the syncopated Gershwin score. A company staple, “Gershwin Preludes” will be performed to viola and piano accompaniment.

“All the Lonely People” returns following its March 2, 2015 World Premiere in New York City. Set to excerpts from J.S. Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, the four-movement, four-dancer work explores the paradox of individuals in cities living closely—even next door—to one another without ever meeting. Zaretsky, who will play the Bach excerpts, also provided the accompaniment at the premiere.

Tom Gold will perform “Connect the Dots” to live accompaniment of the Cliff Burwell/Mitchell Parish standard “Sweet Lorraine.” The solo variation was last presented in February 2014 during a Works & Process event at the Guggenheim Museum.

The New York City Ballet premiered “Concertino,” one of four ballets from Robbins’ Four Chamber Works, on June 16, 1982, at the New York State Theater. Unlike other Robbins, the abstract “Concertino,” for three dancers, has no narrative. Tom Gold Dance most recently performed “Concertino,” set to the eponymous Igor Stravinsky score, at the National Opera and Ballet in Sofia, Bulgaria in June 2014.

About Tom Gold Dance

The mission of Tom Gold Dance is to bring the past, present, and future of classical dance to audiences around the world. Founded in 2008 by former New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold, Tom Gold Dance aspires to the highest level of artistry through an integrated approach to original choreography, music, and design expressed through a traditional classical dance vocabulary, including in more than a dozen works by Gold, envisioned for and set directly on the Company.

Besides an annual performance season and other collaborative engagements in New York City, Tom Gold Dance has established a considerable presence abroad. To date, the Company has appeared in France, Spain, Italy, Bermuda, Israel, Cuba, and Bulgaria. In 2015, the Company performs at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College in New York, and, as part of a centennial celebration of Italian artist Alberto Burri, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

 

About Tom Gold

Internationally recognized dancer, choreographer, and instructor Tom Gold is the Founder and Artistic Director of Tom Gold Dance. Gold has created original works for his eponymous Company, as well as for Vassar College, the Bermuda Arts Festival, Oregon Ballet Theater, the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, and many other dance academies, companies, festivals, television, and special events, including the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Gold has collaborated with composers John Zorn, Augusta Reed Thomas, and Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini, as well as numerous scenic and costume designers.

A 21-year member (1987–2008) of New York City Ballet where he rose to the rank of soloist and worked under Jerome Robbins, Susan Stroman, and many others, he is the featured performer and choreographer of the 2wice Arts Foundation’s DOT DOT DOT, an interactive iPad application designed by Abbott Miller of Pentagram.