Ballet Palm Beach's Season Off to Strong Start

"Fractured" (Courtesy of Ballet Palm Beach)

Lily Ojea Loveland is “Carmen”
(Ballet Palm Beach)

By GERRY BARKER
Norfth Palm Beach Life

Ballet Palm Beach got their 2024-25 season off to a strong start with the trio of performances at the Kravis Center Rinker Playhouse this weekend, highlighted by a passionate and stirring production of "Carmen."

 Originally based on an 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée, featuring the popular and well-known music from the Georges Bizet's 1875 opera, its featured dancers -- Lily Ojea Loveland as Carmen and  Ihosvany Rodriguez as Don Jose -- enthralled the audience with their sultry and sensual artistry.

"Carmen and Other Works" opened with an original piece, "Mozart Intermezzo," where the company's dancers set a lighter mood, followed by choregrapher Gina Patterson's "Fractured," an interpretive work that combines ballet and modern dance in what is truly art in motion.

​Ballet Palm Beach returns to the Kravis Center for everyone's holiday favorite, "The Nutcracker," Dec. 6-8 at Dreyfoos Hall. For more information, visit their website at https://balletpalmbeach.org/

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