A Pas de Deux, of sorts
Ballet Gamonet Maximum Dance’s Debut Season opens October. 7

By Natalia Maldonado

	Ilana Lopez - by Steven Caras

Ballet mistress Iliana Lopez is signaling counts with her fingers at Ballet Gamonet Maximum Dance’s studio. She turns around to adjust the volume of the music, but already the dance floor is bustling with movement-three male dancers pace forward holding what seem like invisible suspenders, then run offstage, ballerinas from all directions make their way across in perfect unison, and dancers are tossed into the air with seemingly little effort. There is movement in every direction, until the music stops abruptly.
“Good, but this time, the hip needs to go more under,” Lopez emphasizes, and, turning to another dancer, adds, “and take your time, that doesn’t have to be so fast.”
Sitting beside her is choreographer Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros, watching his creations come to life.
“That’s working fine,” he tells a dancer. “Don’t fragment it though.”
Together, one detail at a time, Gamonet and Lopez are shaping Ballet Gamonet Maximum Dance’s debut, counting down to the October 7 showing of Program I, the first of a four program season that will last through May of 2006.