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season 11: 2024/2025

HERE (Premiere)

December 6-15, 2024

Put on a Light — Choreographer: Diogo de Lima; Music: Ted Joyner
Echoes — Choreographer: Christian Denice; Music: Ted Joyner
DUSK (Premiere)

March 13-22, 2025

A Weight Gets Lighter — Choreographer: Diogo de Lima; Music: People Museum
Dusk — Choreographer: Cassi Abranches; Music: People Museum

Season 10: 2023/2024

Kaleidoscope (Premiere) & Gala
October 13-15, 2023

The Elephant in the Room — Choreography: Lauren Guynes; Music: George Gershwin; Pianist: Oscar Rossignoli

Circus & Aerial Performance | LadyBEAST Productions — Music: Astor Piazzola; Musicians: Oscar Rossignoli, Rex Gregory, Martin Masakowski

New Orleans Jazz Nutcracker
December 8-16, 2023
Choreography: Jarina Carvalho
Music: Lawrence Sieberth Ensemble
Agua Mole, Pedra Dura (Premiere)
February 23-25 & March 1-3, 2024
Errante Navegante — Choreography: Jarina Carvalho; Music: Geovane Paiva Santos
Naña — Choreography: Diogo de Lima; Music: Geovane Paiva Santos

season 9: 2022/2023

New Orleans Jazz Nutcracker
December 9-18, 2022
Choreography: Jarina Carvalho
Music: Lawrence Sieberth Ensemble
A Streetcar Named Desire
February 24-26, 2023
Choreography: Diogo de Lima
Music: Tucker Fuller
Panorama (Premiere)
April 21-23, 2023
On the Cusp of Blue — Choreography: Jarina Carvalho; Music: Claude Debussy, Children’s Corner Suite & Preludes; Pianist: Oscar Rossignoli
Moonlighting — Choreography: Lauren Guynes; Music: Kurt Veil; Vocals: Meschiya Lake; Pianist: Oscar Rossignoli

Season 8: 2021/2022

New Orleans Jazz Nutcracker
December 3-5, 10-12, 2021
Choreography: Jarina Carvalho
Music: Lawrence Sieberth Ensemble
New Voices (Premiere)
March 18-20, 2022
Beacon — Lauren Ashlee Messina; Music: Florence Price
Inevitable Reflections — Calvin Rowe; Music: Benjamin Britten
And When He Said… — Joshua Bell; Music: Michael Nyman
The Game — Elle C Jones; Music: Sam Kohler
Polymnia Quartet, Todd Simmons (piano)

season 7: 2020/2021

New Orleans Jazz Nutcracker (Premiere)

December 4-13, 2020

Choreography: Jarina Carvalho
Music: Lawrence Sieberth Ensemble
In D Minor - A Dance Film
Choreography: Gretchen Erickson; Music: JS Bach Cello Suite; Cellist: Philip von Maltzahn

Season 6: 2019/2020

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Premiere)
October 4-6, 2019
Choreography: Derwin May Jr.
Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Frances Scully, Conductor, Krewe de Voix Vocal Ensemble
Christmas Dances
December 6-8, 2019
Águas de Dezembro — Diogo de Lima; Music: Lawrence Sieberth
Sacred Harp (Premiere) — Kellis McSparrin Oldenburg; Music: Early American carols, arranged by Boston Camerata
Paul Taylor’s Aureole
January 31-February 2, 2020
Choreography: Paul Taylor
Music: William Boyce
New Resonance Orchestra, Frances Scully, Conductor

SEASON 5: 2018/2019

Follies of 1915 (Premiere)
November 1-4, 2018
Full-Length Ballet by Kellis McSparrin Oldenburg
Music: New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra
Querelle (Premiere)
January 17-20, 2019
Choreographer: Diogo de Lima
Music: Byron Asher
New Resonance Chamber Orchestra; Francis Scully, Conductor
Pierrot Lunaire (Premiere)
January 17-20, 2019
Choreographer: Rebecca Allen
Music: Arnold Schoenberg
New Resonance Chamber Orchestra; Francis Scully, Conductor
Gottschalk Suites (Premiere)
January 17-20, 2019
Choreographer: Derwin May, Jr.
Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Pianist: Katalin Lukacs
Book of Saints
March 21-24, 2019
Full-Length Ballet by Teresa Fellion; Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor

SEASON 4: 2017/2018

Book of Saints (Premiere)
October 6-8, 2017
Full-Length Ballet by Teresa Fellion; Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor
Christmas Cocktails
December 1-3, 2017
I was told there’d be cake – Maritza Mercado-Narcisse
Winter (from the Four Seasons) – Maya Taylor, Diogo de Lima, Donna Crump

Christmas Cocktails – Diogo de Lima; Music: Lawrence Seiberth (Premiere)

Giselle Deslondes
January 26-28, 2018
Full-Length Ballet by Maya Taylor; Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor
Made in New Orleans: 3 Jazz Ballets (Premiere)
March 23-25, 2018
Contemporary ballets created to original music by three of New Orleans’ jazz greats.
Composers, Choreographers and Musicians to be announced on October 6, 2017.

SEASON 3: 2016/2017

Giselle Deslondes (Premiere)
November 18-20, 2017
Full-Length Ballet by Maya Taylor; Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor
The Art of Jazz (Premiere)
February 9,10, 12, 2017
Dance of the Dreamers – Barbara Hayley; Music: Lawrence Sieberth
Rising Sun Blues – Nikki Hefko; Music: Helen Gillet
Wary Heat – Diogo de Lima; Music: NUTRIA (Byron Ascher, Shawn Myers, Trey Boudreaux)
Orfeo
April 14-16, 2017
Full-Length Ballet by Maya Taylor; Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor

SEASON 2: 2015/2016

Orfeo (Premiere)
October 2-4, 2015
Full-Length Ballet by Maya Taylor; Music: Tucker Fuller
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor
Christmas Concerto (Premiere)
December 11-13, 2015
I was told there’d be cake – Maritza Mercado-Narcisse
Diversorios – Nikki Hefko
Abies Balsamea – Donna Crump
Music: George Frederick Trade: Concerto Grosso, op. 6 # 11; op.6 # 9
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso op. 6 # 8
New Resonance Orchestra, Francis Scully, Conductor
Emerging Choreographers (Premiere)
March 18-20, 2016
Searching for Ehos – Gretchen Erickson; Music: Nico Muhly
Sonatine – Trey Mauldwin; Music: Claude Debussy
Touch – Anna Iosipiv; Music: Johannes Brahms
Ain’t She Sweet – Kellis McSparrin Oldenburg; Music: Paul Schoenfield
Musicians: Kate Withrow (violin), Philip von Maltzahn (cello), Brian Hsu (piano)
Program 4
May 13-15, 2016
Salterelle – Diogo de Lima; Music: Scott R. King
Under a Glass Bell – Maya Taylor Music Dustin Gledhill
Autumn (from the Four Seasons) – Donna Crump; Music: George Frederick Handel

Poems of the Soul – Nikki Hefko; Music Alec Wilder (Premiere)

Musicians: Tarrah Reynolds (violin), Rex Gregory (clarinet), Dustin Gledhill (piano),

INAUGURAL SEASON: 2014/2015

Program 1 (Premiere)
October 24-26, 2014

The Fun Police – Donna Crump; Music: Donald Surtain

Selcouth Liaison – Maya Taylor; Music: Giovanni Sollima
Blast – Diogo de Lima; Music: Young Fellaz Brass Band
The Four Seasons (Premiere)
January 23-25, 2015
Spring – Diogo de Lima
Summer – Maya Taylor
Autumn – Donna Crump

Winter – Diogo de Lima, Maya Taylor, Donna Crump

Music: Antonio Vivaldi; New Resonance Orcehstra, Francis Scully, Conductor
Program 3
April 17-19, 2015

The Rooftop – Donna Crump; Music: Donald Surtain

Under a Glass Bell – Maya Taylor; Music: Justin Gledhill (Premiere)

Salterelle – Diogo de Lima; Music: Scott R. King (Premiere)