(HOBOKEN, NJ) -- Mile Square Theatre (MST) presents Sarah Weber Gallo/dancetheatre’s The Magic Hour from March 2 to March 5, 2017.  In this ecstatic new dance theatre work, performers fling themselves through a scary/happy/sad dreamscape in search of how to be, how to make an impact, and how to fade away. The Magic Hour attacks the existential problem of unstoppable time with ferocious energy as the performers grasp at immortality. 

The Magic Hour’s concept and choreography are the brainchild of Sarah Weber Gallo, a senior member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet at Lincoln Center, and a former Radio City Rockette, among other performance credits.  Her choreography has been presented at numerous international and national venues including MST (Much Ado About Cucumbers & Cigars, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Goodnight Moon, and You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown), and most recently Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium. A resident of Hoboken, Ms. Weber Gallo is the director of the Mile Square Theatre Dance Academy.  

Rounding out the artistic team are director/dramaturg Joseph Gallo (MST’s Long Gone Daddy), MST’s resident designer Matthew J. Fick, sound designer Michael Blaskewicz, and costume designer Laura Borys. The ensemble of dancers and performers include, Sarah Weber Gallo, Quinn Dixon, Thomas Hildreth, Danielle Schulz, and Lucy Wild.

“Sarah’s not only an important MST teaching artist as the director of the MST Dance Academy, but she’s a key creative artist with our company. She has contributed choreography for many of our professional shows, and a few years ago, we presented her theatre/dance work Much Ado About Cucumbers & Cigars, which was an enormous success.” says Chris O’Connor, MST’s Artistic Director. “We are excited to produce this very ambitious new work in our in our new space and look forward to presenting more dance in the future.”

Performances will be held at the Mile Square Theatre located at 1400 Clinton Street (at 14th Street) in Hoboken, NJ. The Magic Hour runs March 2 – March 5, Thursday – Saturday @ 8 pm, Sunday @ 3 pm and 7 pm.  Tickets are $25.  Students/Seniors tickets are $15.  Tickets are available at www.milesquaretheatre.org, or by calling 201-683-7014 for reservations. 

SARAH WEBER GALLO (Choreographer) (MST: Much Ado About Cucumbers & Cigars, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Goodnight Moon) is a senior member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and a former Radio City Rockette, among many other performance credits. Her new dance play The Magic Hour will premiere at MST March 2-5. Sarah holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her dedication to arts education has brought her to Mile Square Theatre’s Dance Academy, where she has developed a nurturing technique-based dance curriculum featuring classes in Ballet, Contemporary, Theatre Dance, Hip Hop, Flamenco, and Tap.  Sarah’s choreography has been presented at MST, Roulette Intermedium, The Ohio Theatre, La Mama, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research, Greenspace, Indy Convergence, and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where she was the 2015 recent recipient of the New Work Award.

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of state, a partner agency of the National endowment for the arts and by funds from the national endowment for the arts, administered by the Hudson County office of Cultural & Heritage affairs, Thomas A. Degise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Mile Square Theatre (MST) is the leading professional Equity theatre in Hudson County. Since 2003, MST has presented full-scale productions for adults and children, in addition to providing theatre education programs. Under the artistic direction of Chris O’Connor, MST receives support from The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Hudson County Division of Cultural Affairs. For company information, please visit www.milesquaretheatre.org.

Photo Caption:  Sarah Weber Gallo in The Magic Hour at Mile Square Theatre. Photo by  Craig Wallace Dal2