Events

Bella Noche will feature the new contemporary ballet “Danzas Cubanas” with choreography by El Paso Ballet Theatre’s own Reniel Basail set to the music of Cuban composers Ernesto Lecuona and Ignacio Cervantes and Spanish composers Enrique Granados and Isaac Albeniz. For this piece, El Paso Ballet Theatre’s dancers will perform live onstage with classical pianist Dzmitry Ulasiuk.

Dzmitry Ulasiuk has amazed audiences since 1998, performing solo recitals in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus, Estonia, and Croatia as well as in China, Japan, Spain, Costa Rica and the United States. A winner or laureate of multiple international piano competitions, Dzmitry has made two commercial CDs with a third one in the editing stage. He holds several degrees and diplomas from the Belarus State Academy of Music, TCU, and SMU, plus a doctoral degree in Piano Performance at the University of North Texas, and will be the guest artist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra this October. The mixed bill will also offer excerpts from the classical favorites “Paquita” (music by Ludwig Minkus) and “The Awakening of Flora” (music by Riccardo Drigo) and conclude with “Huapango” (music of Jose Pablo Mancayo), an orchestral arrangement of popular dances from the eastern state of Veracruz, Mexico, which is always much loved by local audiences.

El Paso Ballet Theatre is now in its twelfth season. The company was originally established in 2009 as the El Paso Youth Ballet and underwent a name change in 2016 to the El Paso Ballet Theatre. The name change reflects the organization’s expansion of its artistic and production capabilities. For the last eleven years, El Paso Ballet Theatre has been the only regional company to produce a full-length, locally-produced “Nutcracker.” Without El Paso Ballet Theatre, there would be NO place for hundreds of miles in which young dancers could train and/or perform with a professional company. With the exception of a few rare touring productions (which generally have high ticket prices), the Company’s performances and outreach programs are the ONLY venue adults and youth in our region have for experiencing live, professional, quality dance.