Vero Beach Museum of Art on Pointe with Ballet Vero Beach
Camilo Rodriguez marked his birthday in August by dancing the mambo on Riverside’s stage, which is more or less how a ballet master ought to turn 50!
This Saturday he finds his muse at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.
As Mary Schenkel reported in 32963 (read here), his solo is inspired by the museum’s gallery guard sculpture, the one figure in the building whose sole job it is to stay put!
Ballet Vero Beach and VBMA have been carrying on this tradition for over a decade, with BVB’s dancers taking each season’s exhibition themes as their cue and building new work around them, music and costumes included.
This Saturday, the Interpretive Dance Series: A Retrospective gathers the best of those years into a single bill in the Leonhardt Auditorium. Camilo’s “Art Is All Around Us” shares the stage with “Playing with Strings,” the solo he made for principal dancer Katherine Eppink after Anne Lilly’s kinetic sculptures.
And mark your calendar for Saturday, February 6, 2027 when BVB returns with Floating worlds in Motion.
Sara Klein, VBMA’s Director of Education and Visitor experience, says the performances give audiences “diverse ways to experience, explore, and interpret the art on display.” The program continues this winter, when the company returns with Floating Worlds in Motion, inspired by VBMA’s American debut of Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Japanese Landscapes in Print.
Interpretive Dance Series: A Retrospective: Saturday, Nov. 14, at noon and 3 p.m., Leonhardt Auditorium, VBMA -- $30 for VBMA members and Ballet Vero Beach subscribers, $36 for everyone else. Your ticket includes gallery admission, so arrive early.
Seats are limited, so register in advance here.
