Peter and the Wolf

Directed by:

Carole Alexis

Company name:

Ballet des Amériques

Genre / Type of Show:

Dance Performance

Audience type:

General audience

Synopsis:

Ballet des Amériques returns to Teatro LATEA with new performances of its production Peter and the Wolf, choreographed by Carole Alexis to the music Sergei Prokofiev. Peter and the Wolf will showcase the talents of our professional dancers, who will also perform other choreographies from the company’s rich repertoire. Like the Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf also features promising child dancers.

Sergei Prokofiev composed Peter and the Wolf in 1936. It tells the story of a young boy who attempts to capture a wolf and take it to a zoo to save it from hunters. This magnificent composition has been a source of fond memories for many generations.

About the Company:

Founded in 2011 by director-choreographer Carole Alexis,  a Créole woman, Ballet des Amériques/Carole Alexis Ballet Theatre is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization operating a professional multicultural dance company – now based in both New York City and White Plains – as well as a pre-professional ballet conservatory.

In its first thirteen years, the dance company, composed of dancers of multicultural backgrounds, has performed Carole Alexis’ choreographic work in hundreds of productions throughout the greater New York City and internationally.

Ballet des Amériques is the first-ever resident dance Company of Latin American Theater Experiment Associates, Inc.(Teatro LATEA) Directed by Miguel Trelles –  Teatro LATEA is located on the second floor of The Clemente Center @ 107 Suffolk Street, NY NY​

​Carole Alexis and the company have received numerous awards and accolades for Alexis’s innovative work, including government proclamations honoring Ballet des Amériques as the “Premier Dance Company”  and regular press coverage.

Regarding the director

Carole Alexis, is an internationally recognized dance choreographer, director, and pedagogue, who was bestowed one of the highest honors by the French Republic, the grade of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (induction into the “Knighthood of Arts and Letters”).

Carole Alexis is shattering the barriers of societal stereotypes and prejudices as an indomitable female choreographer, director, and master teacher of mixed ethnic and multicultural backgrounds specific to the people of Martinique and the Caribbean. It has been clear for quite some time now that  Alexis created and developed her signature in dance choreography. Alexis’ artistic work has philosophical depth, emotion, breadth, and worldliness, but is also comprehensive in the way it impacts the community from very young to very old in all kinds of venues and circumstances. Last but not least, this breadth and comprehensiveness also extends to the diversity of our cultural experience, as her work is based on classical ballet,  African and Afro-Caribbean traditional dances fully embrace and draw on her own story and DNA.