The Tallahassee Ballet Presents the 35th Evening of Music and Dance
A milestone performance celebrating collaboration, tradition, and innovation
The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB) proudly announces its 35th Evening of Music and Dance (EOMAD), a landmark performance that brings together past and present artistic voices in a celebration of music, movement, and collaboration. Founded in 1990 by Joyce (Straub) Fausone and Kathryn Karrh Cashin, EOMAD was created as an innovative collaboration between TTB’s dancers and musicians from Florida State University’s College of Music. Over the years, this intimate performance has become one of Tallahassee’s most cherished artistic traditions, uniting audiences through the power of live music and dance performed just steps away.
For Fausone, the magic of Evening of Music and Dance has always come from the synergy of two art forms. “Sometimes part of the audience came for the dance and left in awe of the music, while others came for the music and were captivated by the ballet,” she recalls. That spirit continues this year, as the performance honors the vision of its founders, while spotlighting today’s rising choreographers and dancers, with music performed live under the direction of Music Director, Deloise Chagas Lima.
This landmark performance invites the community to experience the extraordinary collaboration of dance and live music that has defined An Evening of Music and Dance for 35 years.
Featured Works
- Songbook
Choreography: Joyce Fausone, Katy E. Cashin, Meagan Helman
Music: George and Ira Gershwin
Originally choreographed by Joyce Fausone in 1994, Songbook returns with reimagined sections in collaboration with Katy E. Cashin and Artistic Director Meagan Helman. Blending Old Hollywood glamour with bright, modern energy, this work celebrates Gershwin’s timeless music and the legacy of TTB’s artistic leaders. - Brioso
Choreography: Kathryn Karrh Cashin, staged by Katy E. Cashin
Music: Antonín Dvořák
Premiered in 1992, this vibrant modern ballet for nine women is reset in honor of the late Dr. Kathryn Karrh Cashin. Drawing from the sweeping lyricism of Dvořák’s Trio in F Minor, Brioso is both a tribute and a renewal of her choreographic voice. - Caesura
Choreography: Meagan Helman
Music: Enrique Granados
Inspired by Granados’s Goyesca No. 3, suggested by Music Director Deloise Chagas Lima, this new work captures the spirit of the fandango—an energetic Spanish dance—infused with passion, rhythm, and cultural vibrancy. - Bravade
Choreography: Sophia Lutinski
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns
Set to Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, this powerful pas de deux explores desire, tension, and surrender through intricate partnering and electric chemistry, evoking the charged stance of a matador in the bullring. - Anima
Choreography: Hope Eltomi
Music: Handel/Halvorsen
A modern exploration for seven women, Anima reflects on the past, present, and future selves that reside within one person, set to Halvorsen’s dynamic recomposition of Handel’s Passacaglia.
Event Information
What: The Tallahassee Ballet’s 35th Evening of Music and Dance
When: Friday, September 19 at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, September 21 at 2:30 p.m. (includes post-show Q&A with choreographers, dancers, and musicians)
Where: Florida State University’s Opperman Music Hall
Tickets: www.tallahasseeballet.org
