Ballet Hispanico Performs Oller World Premiere In Nyc - Ramon Oller's work "Bury Me Standing" opens at the Joyce Theater, New York City

NEW YORK CITY--Ballet Hispanico's season at the Joyce Theater opens December 1 with a new work by Ramon Oller entitled Bury Me Standing. Inspired by the Gypsies and their journeys across continents, the work, named after a book by Isabel Fonseca, depicts their longing for their homeland. The work is set to Gypsy music from Spain and Eastern Europe.

Oller's fluid style has a strong Limon influence, traces of classical ballet, an element of Spanish dance, and an occasional touch of African dance. The strong sense of rhythm in Spanish dance is used generously throughout the piece.

Bury Me Standing is Oller's third collaboration with Ballet Hispanico. He has become one of Spain's most prolific choreographers, producing thirty-two dances in the past thirteen years. Trained in Barcelona, Paris, and London, he began choreographing in 1984 and created his company, Metros Dansa Contemporanea, in Barcelona in 1985.

Also included in Ballet Hispanico's season at the Joyce are Ann Reinking's Ritmo y Ruido (Rhythm and Noise), Maria Rovira's Tierra de Nadie (No Man's Land), and David Roussbve's When Dreams Explode, an innovative theater dance piece dealing with the downside of the immigrant experience in the U.S.

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