The Chatham Concert Series brings ballet and live music together for the first time this Sunday, January 26 at 3:00pm in the VanVoorhis Hall at Chatham Hall. The Roanoke Ballet Theatre’s new choreography to Piazzolla’s famous tangos “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” brings them to life. Other favorites including Canon in D and The Entertainer will have a new look with dance while the Rainier Trio provides live music.
The Roanoke Ballet Theatre is a company of professional dancers from across the country, who have undergone years of extensive training and danced professionally with other companies. Their full performance schedule includes main stage shows, in-studio Black Box series, and traveling collaborations throughout Roanoke and surrounding communities. The company also provides an opportunity for the dancers to work alongside the staff and students of Roanoke Ballet Theatre’s Youth Ballet.
The Chatham Hall Dance Ensemble will take the stage for “Connections,” choreographed to Gabriel Faure’s famous Sicilienne by their instructor Donna Franklin.
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to support the concert series. Chatham Hall is catering a reception afterwards where the audience can meet the dancers and musicians after the performance.
VanVoorhis Hall is in a building connected to the main building. There will be signs out as well. Here is a link to the general map. (It is in the building North and to the right of the red marker on this map) https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chatham+Hall/@36.8263053,-79.3905512,18.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x884d555715e9375b:0xabf1ff783221d731!8m2!3d36.8263541!4d-79.3896572
Special thanks to Chatham Hall for collaborating with the Chatham Concert Series for this performance. Other sponsors are Chatham First, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Chatham Arts, Chatham Hall, Davenport Energy, First Piedmont, La Chaumière Bed and Breakfast and Reid Street Gallery.
Additional concerts this spring are “Music for Cello and Piano” on Sunday, March 1st at 4:00 p.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The duo “Anime and Grazia,” comprised of Washington and Lee University music faculty Julia Goudimova and Anna Billias, will perform Edward Grieg’s Sonata for Cello and Piano and other works by Scandinavian composers.
The Rainier Trio will close the season on Friday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. with fun and familiar works including Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, Joplin’s Elite Syncopations, Meditation from Thais and Dvorak’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me.”