Orlando Ballet takes on the works of Balanchine, Godden and Gill at Steinmetz Hall

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Orlando Ballet return to their home-away-from-home at Steinmetz Hall to perform a triumvirate of pieces by singular choreographers that merge classic and modern styles seamlessly. The troupe will perform George Balanchine’s 1950s “Allegro Brillante,” alongside contemporary pieces by Mark Godden (“Angels in the Architecture”) and, much closer to home, Heath Gill’s “Confronting Genius.”

Gil, also rehearsal director at the Ballet, crafted this work as a harmonious intertwining of language and dance: “Working with spoken word pushes the dancers to respond to language instead of music, which changes everything about how they move.” (And apparently there’s some Tom Waits in the mix too?) Something for everyone, it would seem.

7:30 p.m. Friday; 2 & 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 27-29; Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; drphillipscenter.org; $44-$201.

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