MUSIC / DANCE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019
7:30 PM

Geneva Kamerata & Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaolo: Dance of the Sun
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25-$50
https://www.92y.org/event/geneva-camerata

This looks like it might be really great. A crack chamber orchestra (unfortunately I don't think those are orchestra members pictured on the landing page of their website), led by the splendid pianist and deep musical thinker David Greilsammer, plays some really good music while performing choreography created by counter-tenor-turned-dancer-turned-choreographer Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaolo (yes, you read that right: the orchestral musicians perform the choreography while playing the music). First up is a suite of Lully's delightful incidental music for the initial production of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, which obviously cries out for dramatization and dance. Then, that most nervous of all major symphonies (except it's in minor) (we music nerds are a fucking scream!), Mozart's Great G Minor (No. 40), which can certainly stand having the musicians dancing around evoking life and mortality while playing it.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm so proud of having found South African Kaia Wine Bar that I'm gonna keep recommending it. (To avoid potential awkwardness, make sure you make it clear you're ordering the wild boar and not wild Boer.)