Ballet's Metropolis: Broken Glass

Darrell Pucciarello's Ballet's Metropolis presents Broken Glass, a groundbreaking multidisciplinary performance that fuses contemporary ballet with visual art to tell a powerful story of truth and trust, connection and separation, compromise and restoration. This original work explores the landscape of human relationships— charting the emotional arc of relationships tested by time, distance, and vulnerability. In a bold and evocative twist, the dancers paint on canvas with their feet during the performance, transforming each movement into a living visual expression. Broken Glass invites audiences to witness a story not only performed, but physically created in time. Through this intimate merging of disciplines, the work becomes a meditation on the fragility and resilience of the human spirit.
Choreographer/ Dancer
Berkshire based Choreographer/Master Teacher Darrell Pucciarello is a National Endowment for the Arts award recipient for his choreography. The New York Times calls his work “striking choreography “. As a dancer he has been described as “a dynamic display of artistry and athleticism “. Mr. Pucciarello’s students have appeared in numerous Ballet and Opera companies, in Broadway shows, with Cirque de Soleil and at multiple Olympic Games. He is known for his clear, expressive teaching style that focuses both on technique and performance artistry. Pucciarello’s performance credits include The Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Louisville Ballet, Tulsa Ballet Theater, Ballet Austin and City Ballet Houston. In 2005 he debuted his Ballet Company, Ballets Metropolis and in 2008 premiered his original production of “Dracula “ at the Colonial Theatre with original music by David Noel Edwards and set design by Carl Sprague. Locally Mr. Pucciarello has contributed significantly with various groups including Barrington Stage and Shakespeare and Co. He was voted “Best of the Berkshires “ for his choreography in “Damn Yankees “ at historic Wahconah Park. Mr. Pucciarello continues to inspire through his innovative approach to movement and storytelling. He is currently Artistry/Dance clinician for USA Gymnastics.

Dancer
Nicole Rose is a visual artist and lifelong ballet dancer whose paintings investigate the synchronicities between movement and mark making. The process of creating each of her paintings begins by dipping her feet in paint and dancing on canvas, allowing her choreographed movements to translate marks onto the surface. The first layer of movement-marks creates a map, guiding the following layers of formalized painting that investigate the traces of Rose’s movements while researching the traces left behind by industry. The culmination of these layers results in abstract landscapes that explore the physical and psychological dichotomy between chaos and control. The paintings question the individual and collective impact humans leave as we move through the world and the consequences of the traces we leave behind both physically and ecologically. Nicole Rose holds a BA in Studio Art from Mills College and currently lives and works in the Berkshires, MA.

Composer
David Noel Edwards is a writer, graphic designer, rattlesnake photographer, and composer of incidental music for film, ballet, and theater. He began his musical career at age 4, singing in his mother's church choirs, and in the early 1980s, he wrote and performed three pop music albums and fronted the David Edwards Band in tours of North America and Great Britain, opening for acts such as Cliff Richard, and U2. In 2007, he returned to orchestral music, composing a ballet adaptation of Dracula, premiered in 2008. He later scored plays and trailers, including Carl Sprague's Summer, Juliane Hiam’s “Belle of the Books,” and sound design for Autres Temps. Since 2015, he has written concert reviews for the Berkshire Edge, focusing on Tanglewood and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and is currently composing new ballet music.

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Tickets: $20 (in-advance) $25 (at-the-door)

Seating/Bar: 7:00PM Show: 7:30PM

This event is indoors.

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The Foundry West Stockbridge, 2 Harris Street, West Stockbridge, United States