Toe-tapping music is nothing new for Melbourne, Australia's Ensemble Liaison. Now they're taking it to the next level. Next week, the chamber group's musicians - pianist Timothy Young, clarinetist David Griffiths and cellist Svetlana Bogosavljevich - will team up with the dance company Jack Productions to perform A Chamber Ballet, a new ballet choreographed by Lucas Jervies for modern dancers and chamber ensemble, according to a report in the Melbourne Weekly Eastern. In the ballet, set to music by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, the musicians play onstage and the dancers move around and between them. A Chamber Ballet joins another collaboration between Jervies and Ensemble Liaison. Jervies created Smile for the Milwaukee Ballet, accompanied in the video above by Ensemble Liaison. Check out Ensemble Liaison's stunning gallery of photos from rehearsals of A Chamber Ballet.
Jennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.