We can thank ARB’s dancers for
their commitment to their roles.
A more elaborate production is in
the works, however, with scenery
by Kevin Lee Allen Designs and
costumes by Michelle Ferrranti.
The Hamilton Stage event on October 17 was only a teaser for this
ballet’s premiere, February 26-27,
2015, at the State Theatre in New
Brunswick. According to company
director Douglas Martin, who is
choreographing the piece, another
act remains to be added. Martin
intends to create a prologue explaining how these characters-
New Jersey Stage
--the four lovers, especially---came
to be chasing one another through
the woods at night. This prologue
will help distinguish Martin’s work
from other versions of the ballet,
especially Frederick Ashton’s “The
Dream,” which Martin danced
when he was in the Joffrey Ballet
and which has served as his model. In the meantime, the core of
the new “Midsummer” is already
in place accompanied by Felix
Mendelssohn’s famous incidental
music and inspired by the mix‘n-match shenanigans of William
Shakespeare’s play.
November 2014
pg 48