Festival Ballet Theatre's 7th Annual GALA OF THE STARS

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014

Featuring dancers from around the globe.

This Spectacular Performance is presented in association with Youth America Grand Prix.

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

With great pleasure, I welcome you to our 2014 Gala of the Stars, a glorious evening of dance featuring a phenomenal roster of internationally revered guest artists from the world’s most prestigious dance companies, FBT's accomplished resident company and a collaboration with Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) to present the young stars of dance who were invited to YAGP New York Finals. It is my privilege to welcome these stunning dancers and YAGP prodigies to Orange County to share their art with our audience.

Festival Ballet Theatre has worked tirelessly to build Orange County’s legacy of dance. Over the past 26 years, our beautiful company dancers have shared the stage with fabulous guest artists from around the world. We have presented timeless classics and have introduced new audiences to Festival Ballet Theatre audacious contemporary choreographers. Thank you for celebrating it all with us!

Board of Directors: Salwa Rizkalla I would like to thank our gala sponsors, the Festival Ballet President Guild, and the many individuals who have contributed to Lisa Yamashita making this night possible. The involvement of our Vice President Willa Bouwens-Killeen community has always been essential to FBT’s growth and I Treasurer am thankful to everyone for their support.

Cathleen Hunter Secretary Festival Ballet Theatre has enjoyed an exciting season and I Doris Bailey hope you will join us in the coming months. In October we Member at Large will present Alice in Wonderland by Emmy Award-winning choreographer Robert Sund and Balanchine’s Serenade Guild Chairs: (First Movement) and Valse Fantaisie. Our Nutcracker runs Christine De Nicola from December 12th through the 24th and joining FBT in the President lead roles of Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier are three Teri Schmidt couples from world-renowned ballet companies. In March, Grants we will present the enchanting, ageless classic, Swan Lake.

Alisa Ziebarth I am so pleased that you have joined us for this very special Volunteer Chair evening and I hope to see you throughout the following Kathryn Weber Boutique Chair season.

Sandy Mason Hospitality Chair Hold on to your seat—this will be one of the greatest performances you will ever see!

Advisory Board:

Salwa Rizkalla

Tom Lydon Katherine Ahn, DDS Mike Lemburg Curtis Holdsworth

PRESENTERS Festival Ballet Theatre, under the direction of Salwa Rizkalla, since its founding in 1988, Festival Ballet Theatre has become one of the west coast’s most vibrant and accomplished professional ballet companies.

Celebrating over 25 years of artistic service to Orange County, FBT is dedicated to presenting works that epitomize the artistry of professional ballet, offering cultural awareness of dance through educational programs, and nurturing a creative environment for dancers of all levels.

Boasting a roster of impressive, up-andcoming talent; the company’s productions feature internationally acclaimed guest artists from prestigious companies, such as American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the San Francisco Ballet.

Festival Ballet Theatre strives to enrich the experience of Orange County’s dance audience by highlighting the work of world-renowned guest and resident choreographers. With reverence to masterpieces of the past and a clear focus on developing future tours de force, FBT presents a varied repertoire of full-length classical ballets, including The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Don Quixote, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, as well as contemporary works by some of the nation’s most sought-after choreographers.

Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world’s largest international student ballet scholarship competition held annually around the world and in New York City.

Founded by two former dancers of the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet, Larissa and Gennadi Saveliev, YAGP provides extraordinary educational and professional opportunities to young dancers, including the opportunity to receive contracts to dance companies worldwide, scholarships to leading dance schools in the U.S. and abroad, and performance opportunities on some of the world’s most prestigious stages and at dance festivals around the world.

Over 200 YAGP alumni are now dancing with 50 companies around the world, including American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, among others.

2014 With Special Thanks To American Ballet Theatre Czech National Theatre Joffrey Ballet New York City Ballet San Francisco Ballet Staatsballett Berlin Stuttgart Ballet

GUEST FACULTY

Larissa Saveliev Founder and Artistic Director, YAGP

Gennadi Saveliev Former soloist, American Ballet Theatre Founder and Artistic Director, YAGP

Vladimir Malakhov Director, Staatsballett Berlin

Gioia Masala Princess Grace Academy Monaco & International Repetiteur

Viktor Plotnikov Former Principal, Boston Ballet

Adam Sklute Artistic Director, Ballet West

Alexander Kalinin Character Ballet Master

Gary Norman Senior Classical Ballet Teacher Royal Ballet School

Larissa Ponomarenko Ballet Master, Boston Ballet

Misha Tchoupakov Assistant Professor University of North Carolina, School of the Arts

Zak Schlegel Contemporary Teacher and Choreographer

Nicola Tranah Teacher of Graduating Girl’s Class Royal Ballet School, UK

Josie Walsh Artistic Director, Joffrey Ballet School San Francisco Summer Intensive

Haruko Kawanishi YAGP Japan Representative

SOUTHLAND BALLET ACADEMY RESIDENT FACULTY Lana Brooks Megan Dicostanzo Elizabeth Farmen Marci Goedl Tara Gusman Kathy Kahn

Marina Kalinin Hanna Karacic Askar Kettebekov Megan Lafferty Natalie Matsuura Taylor Needham

Christine Nunez Zak Schlegel Lauren Shavitz Nazgul Shinn Stella Viorica

GALA PROGRAM Master of Ceremonies: Jade Hendricks and Quenby Hersh Southland Ballet Academy and Festival Ballet Theatre Alumni Act 1 Variation from Flames of Paris Dancer: Hailey Vivers Southland Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Vasili Vainonen Composer: Boris Asafiev Variation from La Bayadere Dancer: Keigo Muto

Tanaka Toshiyuki Junior Ballet Company 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Ludwig Minkus Where It Ends Dancer: Madison Holdsworth Southland Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Kelley Guise Composer: Devotchka Variation from Paquita Dancer: Gillian George Southland Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Ludwig Minkus Variation from Harlequinade Dancer: Nana Sakai Royal Ballet School YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Riccardo Drigo

“Convergence” – a world of colliding opposites Dancers: AJ Abrams, Mariana Carrillo, Andrea Guite, Olivia Harrigan, Renee Kester, Clara Mason, Natalie Matsuura, Katie Miltimore, Megan Yamashita Choreographer: Josie Walsh Composer: Jealous Angel remix of Zoe Keating Blushing Dancers: Rebecca King and Amar Ramasar Choreographer: Peter Quanz Composer: Bryson Andres after Lana Del Ray Bite Dancers: Agnes Su and Constantine Allen Choreographer: Katarzyna Kozielska Composer: The Elysian Quartet and Gabriel Prokofiev Les Bourgeois Dancer: Daniil Simkin Choreographer: Ben Van Cauwenbergh Composer: Jacques Brel Tarantella Dancers: Mari Kawanishi and Daniel Ulbricht Choreographer: George Balanchine Composer: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

The performance of Tarantella, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

Intermission

Act 2 Variation from Sleeping Beauty Dancer: Eri Shibata Kaneta Kouno Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Variation from Coppelia Dancer: Clara Mason Southland Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Arthur Saint-Léon Composer: Léo Delibes Variation from Le Corsaire Dancer: Chihiro Kobayashi Emi Aiba Ballet Studio 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Adolphe Adam Midnight Dancer: Anya Lydon

Southland Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Josie Walsh Composer: Brooklyn Funk Machine Variation from Harlequinade Dancer: Itsuku Masuda

K.classic-ballet Studio 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Riccardo Drigo Variation from La Esmerelda Dancer: Michelle Lemburg Southland Ballet Academy 2014 YAGP Finalist

Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Cesare Pugni Running System Dancers: Weronika Frodyma, Mari Kawanishi, Haley Schwan and Xenia Wiest Choreographer: Xenia Wiest Composer: Jaques Marray (edited by Patrick Soluri) Light Rain Dancers: Maria Kowroski and Fabrice Calmels Choreographer: Gerald Arpino Composers: Douglas Adamz and Russ Gauthier Embraceable You Dancers: Megan Fairchild and Daniel Ulbricht Choreographer: George Balanchine Composer: George Gershwin

The performance of Embraceable You, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

Apothéose Dancer: Julie Kent and Cory Stearns Choreographer: Marcelo Gomes Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Don Quixote Pas de Deux Dancers: Maria Kochetkova and Daniil Simkin Choreographer: Marius Petipa Composer: Léon Minkus

GALA PROGRAM

GUEST ARTISTS Constantine Allen Constantine Allen, born in Indiana, USA, grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his initial ballet training at the Pacific Ballet Academy and at Ballet Hawaii. In 2005, he began to study at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. and in 2010 he came to the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart from which he graduated in 2012. In 2011 he took part at the Tanzolymp competition in Berlin where he was awarded the Grand Prix. In the fall of the 2012, Constantine Allen joined Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet and was promoted to Demi Soloist in the fall of 2013.

In September 2014, he will assume his position as Principal Dancer. With the Stuttgart Ballet he has already danced an astonishing number of leading roles such as Albrecht in Giselle (after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa), the title role in John Neumeier’s Othello, Lucentio in John Cranko’s The Taming of the Shrew and Paris in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet as well as solo roles in Demis Volpi’s Krabat, Marco Goecke’s Fancy Goods, Jorma Elo’s Slice to Sharp, George Balanchines The Four Temperaments and William Forsythe’s workwithinwork.

Fabrice Calmels Born and raised in France, Fabrice Calmels began ballet training at age 3, following in the steps of his younger sister.

In 1991, Mr. Calmels entered the Paris Opera School, under the direction of Claude Bessy. Through his training he worked with world-renowned dance masters such as Serge Golovine, Gilbert Mayer, Max Bozzoni, John Neumier, Jirí Kylián, Violette Verdy, and also performed at the beautiful Opera Palais Garnier theatre. In 1998, Mr. Calmels was spotted by John Meehan, director of American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, and moved to New York.

He furthered his training by joining The Rock School, and danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet. At Boston Ballet, under the direction of Anna-Marie Holmes, he learned the Russian technique with ballet masters Tatiana Terekhova and Sergei Berezhnoi, and also the Balanchine style at The School of American Ballet. Mr. Calmels joined The Joffrey Ballet in 2002. Since joining the Joffrey, Mr. Calmels has

performed in Age of Innocence, Apollo, Carousel a Dance, The Clowns, I/DNA, In the Middle…Somewhat Elevated, In the Night, Italian Suite, Light Rain, Les Noces, The Nutcracker, N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz! Le Sacre du Printemps, “…smile with my heart,” Suite Saint Saëns, Valentine, Midsummers Night Dream, Apollo, Othello and After the Rain. Fabrice has danced several times for television, featured on Chicago’s WGN TV. He also dances with ABT principal Veronica Part in guest performances.

He’s also expanded into acting, performing the role of Nijinsky in the new theatre piece "MISIA" by writer Barry Singer, performed at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival. In 2008, Mr. Calmels collaborated with world-famous musician JeanFelix Lalanne, and his choreography was performed at his Autour de la Guitarre in Paris. Mr. Calmels enjoys choreographing, modeling and working on "ILYS,” his new business.

Megan Fairchild Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. Ms. Fairchild was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began her dance training at age of four, studying with Judy Levitre and Kaelynne Oliphant at Dance Concepts in Sandy, Utah; and at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City with Sharee Lane, Deborah Dobson, and Maureen Laird. Ms. Fairchild entered the School of American Ballet (SAB) in 2000. In 2001, Ms. Fairchild became an apprentice with New York City Ballet; in 2002, she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. Ms. Fairchild was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2004, and in 2005, she was promoted to principal dancer. Since joining New York City Ballet, Ms. Fairchild has danced featured roles in George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Apollo (Calliope), Ballo della Regina, Coppélia (Swanilda), George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ (Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop, Marzipan, and Dolls), Jewels (“Emeralds” and “Rubies”), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Butterfly), Raymonda Variations, Symphony in C (Third Movement), Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, Valse-Fantaisie, among others; Jerome Robbins’ Andantino, Brandenburg,

Dances at a Gathering, The Four Seasons (Winter), The Goldberg Variations and Piano Pieces; Peter Martins’ A Fool For You (Rockhouse), Eight Easy Pieces, The Magic Flute (Lise), Octet, The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Princess Florine, and Ruby), Swan Lake (Pas de Trois, Pas de Quatre, and Neapolitan), among others; and Zakouski; and Christopher Wheeldon’s Mercurial Manoeuvres. Ms. Fairchild originated featured roles in Robert La Fosse’s Land of Nod (Natalie), Peter Martins’ Naïve and Sentimental Music, Alexei Ratmansky’s Namouna, A Grand Divertissement, Susan Stroman’s “The Blue Necklace” from Double Feature (Florence), Mr. Wheeldon’s Shambards, and the NYCB Premiere of Eliot Feld’s Intermezzo No. 1. Ms. Fairchild has performed with New York City Ballet at its summer home in Saratoga, New York, and with the Company on tour in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Copenhagen, Denmark, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Ms. Fairchild was the 2001 recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award.

GUEST ARTISTS Weronika Frodyma Weronika Frodyma was born in 1987 in Krakow, Poland. In 2006, she graduated from the Warsaw Ballet School and was awarded first prize and the title of The Best Graduate of Polish Ballet Schools of 2006. In 2005, she was awarded second prize at the XIVth Polish Dance Competition in Gdańsk, and first prize at the Fourth International Youth Classical Dance Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine. In 2006, after participating in the summer program with The School of American Ballet (SAB) in New York, she was granted a scholarship and invited to participate in the Winter Term Ballet program with SAB. In New York, she danced in Balanchine’s ballets at SAB’s annual workshop (Four Temperaments and Gounod Symphony). She also performed in The Nutcracker with SAB at the Performing Arts Centre in Stamford. In 2007, she joined Polish National Ballet in Warsaw as a member of corps de ballet. In 2009, she started working at Staatsballett Berlin. She was promoted to a demi-soloist by Vladimir Malakhov in 2011.

Her repertory at Staatsballett Berlin includes: Big Swans

and Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake (P. Bart), Scottish Princess in La Peri (V.Malakhov), Erda in Ring um den Ring (M. Bejart), Esmeralda’s Friends in Esmeralda (J.Burlaka), The Nights (A.Preljocaj), Herman Schmerman (W. Forsythe), Namouna (A. Ratmansky), among others. The breaking point of her career occurred when she was severely injured during the final preparation for the premier performance of William Forsythe’s ballet Herman Shmerma (cast alongside Polina Semionova, Shoko Nakamura and Nadia Sajdakova). She had a knee reconstructing operation and after a year and a half of intensive rehabilitation, she overcame the injury and is now back on stage. That dramatic episode and many other moments of her career have been captured in the documentary film, Sometimes I dream I’m flying, created by the Polish filmmakers Aneta Popiel-Machnicka and Michal Popiel-Machnicki. Shot over the course of 6 years, the film was released in 2013 and has since garnered acclaim at various film festivals.

Mari Kawanishi Born in Tokyo in 1991, Mari Kawanishi started ballet training at the age of seven at the Tachibana Ballet School in Japan. When she was twelve, she was accepted to the Elmhurst School for Dance in England and studied there for four years. In 2006, she received a scholarship to the John Cranko School in Germany from the Youth America Grand Prix New York Finals. She then joined the Royal Ballet School in London in 2007, where she performed with the Royal Ballet in their Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella. She graduated the school in

2010 and joined the Dresden Semperoper Ballett where she performed pieces such by William Forsythe, George Balanchine, David Dawson and Johan Inger. She is now a corps de ballet member with the Staatsballett Berlin since August 2011. Her repertoire in Berlin includes La Peri and La Bayadere from Vladimir Malakhov, Quintet in Herman Schmerman by William Forsythe, Onegin and Romeo and Juliet by John Cranko, Caravaggio by Mauro Bigonzetti, The Nights by Angelin Preljokaj, and all other well known Classical Ballets performed with the Staatsballett Berlin.

Julie Kent Julie Kent began her dance training with Hortensia Fonseca at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet. She attended summer sessions at American Ballet Theatre II and the School of American Ballet before joining American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1985. In that same year, Kent won first place in the regional finals of the National Society of Arts and Letters at the Kennedy Center. In 1986, she was the only American to win a medal at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition, and she became a member of ABT's corps de ballet. Kent starred in the Herbert Ross film Dancers in 1987 opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov. She was appointed a Soloist with ABT in 1990 and a Principal Dancer in 1993, the year in which she won the Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto and was named as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People". In April 2000, Kent won the “Prix Benois de la Danse” which was held in Stuttgart. She is the only American woman ever to have won this prize. Kent starred in the motion picture Center Stage (2000), directed by Nicholas Hytner. In June .

of 2012, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and later in the same year, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Dance Magazine. During Miss Kent's long career, she has acquired a vast repertoire, dancing all of the major classical, dramatic and neoclassical roles in works by some of the great choreographers of the 20th century like Balanchine, Tudor, Ashton and MacMillan. Her appearances as a guest include invitations from the Mariinsky Theatre, Teatro alla Scala, New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Berlin Staatsballett, Australian Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballett, Teatro Colon, Tokyo Ballet, Ballet de Santiago, and more. As well, she has created leading roles in ballets by choreographers John Neumeier, Twyla Tharp, Alexei Ratmansky, Nacho Duato, Lar Lubovitch, Stanton Welch, James Kudelka, Jorma Elo, and others. Kent is married to ABT Associate Artistic Director Victor Barbee, and they have 2 children, William and Josephine.

GUEST ARTISTS Rebecca King Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Rebecca King trained from 2001 to 2006 with Olga Toziakova at Ballet Studio No 7 in Columbia. While still a student, she competed at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, was a finalist in the Youth America Grand Prix and won the Grand Prix at the International Ballet Competition in Artek, Russia.

In 2006 she became a soloist with the Ukrainian National Ballet, where she performed in the Pas de trois and Big Swans in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, in the role of Ingrid in Peer Gynt and in the Pas de Action and Pas de trois in La Bayadere. In the 2008/09 season Rebecca King joined the Prague State Opera as a demi-soloist and a year later was named a soloist. She appeared in Pas de Trois in Swan Lake, in the titular role of Cinderella and as Anastasia in the ballet Sleeping Beauty – The Czar’s Last Daughter (choerograpy: Youri Vamos). She dazzled in the double role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and as Myrtha in Giselle.

Since the start of the 2011/12 season she has been

engaged at the Czech National Theatre, portraying Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (choreography: Kenneth Greve), Clara and the Christmas Fairy in the ballet The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol (choreography: Youri Vamos). As well as Aurora in the ballet Sleeping Beauty (choreography: Javier Torres) and Gamzatti in La Bayadere (choreography: Javier Torres). Along with Pas de Deux from Le Corsaire in a mixed bill. She has also danced in the duet Empty Title, part of the mixed bill Le sacre du printemps, in William Forsythe’s “In the Middle Somewhat Elevated” (Woman No. 2), and a soloist in the Contemporary Ballet Solo for Three (choreography: Petr Zuska). Rebecca King has also performed at several gala performances, including; the YAGP Brazil 10 th Anniversay Gala in Sao Paulo, the International Ballet Gala in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Miami International Ballet Festival, the Festival Ballet Theater Gala in California, and at the Anaheim International Dance Festival in California.

Maria Kochetkova Born in Moscow, Russia, Maria Kochetkova trained at the Bolshoi School in Moscow and danced with The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, and as a guest artist with Tokyo Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg before joining San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 2007. Among Kochetkova’s major roles are Giselle in Tomasson’s Giselle; Grand Pas de Deux Ballerina, Queen of the Snow and Sugar Plum Fairy in Tomasson’s The Nutcracker; Juliet in Tomasson’s Romeo & Juliet; Odette/Odile in Tomasson’s Swan Lake; Kitri in Tomasson/Possokhov’s Don Quixote; Swanilda in Balanchine’s Coppélia; Tatiana in Cranko’s Onegin; and Cinderella in Wheeldon’s Cinderella. She has created principal roles in Liang’s Symphonic Dances; McGregor’s Borderlands; Ratmansky’s From Foreign Lands; and Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour. Her repertory also includes Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15, Emeralds, Rubies, Symphony in C, and Theme and Variations; Elo’s Double Evil; Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and in the middle, somewhat elevated; Lifar’s Suite en Blanc; MacMillan’s Winter Dreams; McGregor’s Chroma; Possokhov’s Fusion and Raymonda Pas de Deux; Ratmansky’s Russian

Seasons; Tomasson’s Chaconne for Piano and Two Dancers, Criss-Cross,“Haffner” Symphony, and Nanna’s Lied; and Wheeldon’s Ghosts and Number Nine.

Kochetkova’s honors include gold medals at the International Ballet Competitions in Korea and Italy (2005); a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition of Luxembourg (2003); a silver medal and the jury prize at the Varna International Ballet Competition (2002); a silver medal at the Prix de Lausanne that same year; and a bronze medal at Moscow International Competition (2001).

In 2008, she was featured as the Grand Pas de Deux Ballerina in the PBS Great Performances broadcast of Tomasson’s The Nutcracker, co-produced by San Francisco Ballet and KQED Public Television San Francisco. In 2009, Kochetkova was awarded the gold medal on NBC’s Superstars of Dance. She was nominated for a Benois de la Danse Award in 2013 for her performance as Tatiana in Cranko’s Onegin. She won the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Individual Performance for Giselle during the 2008 repertory season.

A frequent guest artist, Kochetkova performs with companies worldwide.

GUEST ARTISTS Maria Kowroski Maria Kowroski was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and began her ballet training at age seven with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet. Ms. Kowroski entered the School of American Ballet (SAB) in 1992. She became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and was invited to join the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 1995. In 1997, Ms. Kowroski was promoted to the rank of soloist and in 1999, she was promoted to principal dancer. Since joining New York City Ballet, Ms. Kowroski has danced featured roles in Agon, Apollo, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (Fourth Movement), Concerto Barocco, Cortège Hongrois, "Diamonds" "Emeralds" and "Rubies" from Jewels, Firebird, The Four Temperaments, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Prodigal Son, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Serenade, Symphony in C (Second Movement), Union Jack La Valse, Vienna Waltzes, Herman Schmerman Pas de Deux, The Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake, Dances at a Gathering, Fanfare, Carnival of the Animals and Polyphonia. Ms. Kowroski has also originated featured roles in Jorma Elo’s Slice to Sharp,

Peter Martins’ Bal de Couture, Them Twos, Susan Stroman’s “The Blue Necklace” from Double Feature (Dorothy Brooks), "Blossom Got Kissed" from Duke!, Mauro Bigonzetti’s In Vento, Luce Nascosta, Oltremare, and Vespro; Boris Eifman’s Musagète, Eliot Feld’s Organon, Douglas Lee’s Lifecasting, Peter Martins’ Bal de Couture, Thou Swell, Wayne McGregor’s Outlier, Benjamin Millepied’s Double Aria, Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, Helgi Tomasson’s Prism, Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain, Les Carillons and Variations Sérieuses. In 2002, Ms. Kowroski appeared in the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography, dancing in Them Twos and Red Angels. In 2004, she appeared in the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100, dancing in Concerto Barocco. Ms. Kowroski has performed as a guest artist with the Maryinsky Ballet, in productions of Swan Lake and Jewels, as well as with the Munich Ballet in Apollo and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. Ms. Kowroski was the recipient of the Princess Grace Award in 1994.

Amar Ramasar Amar Ramasar was born in the Bronx, New York. He began his studies at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, in 1993. In addition, he studied at the American Ballet Theatre Summer Program and The Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet. In July 2000, Mr. Ramasar was invited to become an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and in July 2001 he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In March of 2006 he was promoted to soloist and in October 2009 was promoted to Principal Dancer. Since joining New York City Ballet, Mr. Ramasar’s has danced featured roles in Agon, Allegro Brillante, BrahmsSchoenberg Quartet (Fourth Movement), Dancses Concertantes, Divertimento No. 15, “Emeralds” from Jewels, Episodes, The Four Temperaments, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Union Jack, Who Cares?, Herman Schmerman Pas de Deux, Romeo and Julie, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Fancy Free, After

the Rain and Polyphonia. Mr. Ramasar also orginated featured roles in Mauro Bigonzetti’s Luce Nascosta,Oltremare, Ashley Bouder’s Give Me Fever, Jorma Elo’s Slice to Sharp, Douglas Lee’s Lifecasting, Peter Martins’s Bal de Couture, Chichester Psalms, Friandises, Ocean’s Kingdom(King Terra), The Red Violin, Wayne McGregor’s Outlier, Benjamin Millepied’s Plainspoken, Quasi Una Fantasia, Why am I not where you are, Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, Paz de la Jolla, Angelin Preljocaj’s Spectral Evidence, Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons, Liam Scarlett’s Acheron, Susan Stroman’s "Frankie and Johnny ... and Rose" from For the Love of Duke and Christopher Wheeldon’s Les Carillons. Mr. Ramasar appeared in the film NY EXPORT: OPUS JAZZ, a scripted adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet of the same name, which aired on PBS and won an Audience Award at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. Mr. Ramasar was a recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise in 2000.

GUEST ARTISTS Haley Schwan A Michigan native, Haley Schwan graduated in 2010 from the Vaganova Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg, Russia, class of Irina Sitnikova. As a student of the academy, she was given opportunities to dance various solo roles on the stages of the Mariinsky, Mikhailovsky, and Hermitage theaters, as well as dance with Mariinsky soloist Anton Korsakov in Academy of Russian Classical Ballet's production of the Nutcracker. Upon graduation at age 17,

Haley received a contract with Staatsballett Berlin under the direction of Vladimir Malakhov. Since joining the company, she has been fortunate to perform works of numerous choreographers such as George Balanchine, John Cranko, Patrice Bart, Boris Eifman, Angelin Preljocaj, Itzik Galili, Mauro Bigonzetti, Marco Goecke, Rolando D'Alesio, Tim Plegge, and Vasily Medvedev.

Daniil Simkin Daniil Simkin was born in Russia to a ballet family. In 1990, the family left for the West and, after several international engagements, settled in Wiesbaden, Germany, where Simkin first appeared on stage. From the age of six, he often appeared on stage, dancing alongside his father Dmitrij Simkin. At 10, Simkin began his training under the direction of his mother, Olga Aleksandrova. At 12, he began participating in ballet competitions and galas around the world. He joined the ballet company of the Vienna State Opera in 2006 as a demi-soloist and since then has danced many roles in the classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertoire of the company. In 2007, he danced his first principal role, Basilio in Don Quixote, as a guest with the Lithuanian National Opera. Simkin's awards include the Senior Gold Medal at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson (2006), Grand Prix International Ballet Competition Helsinki (2005) and First Prize and Gold Medal at the 21st International Ballet Competition in Varna (2004), among others. Simkin joined

American Ballet Theatre as a soloist in 2008 and became a principal dancer in 2012. His repertoire with the Company includes the Bronze Idol in La Bayadère, the Ballet Dancer in The Bright Stream, Franz in Coppélia, Ali and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Basilio and the Lead Gypsy in Don Quixote, Puck in The Dream, the first sailor in Fancy Free, Lescaut in Manon, Kolia in A Month in the Country, the Nutcracker Prince in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, Lensky in Onegin, the Son in Prodigal Son, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Désiré and Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried and Benno in Swan Lake, Company B, Duets, In the Upper Room, The Leaves Are Fading, One of Three, Piano Concerto #1 and Symphony in C, among many others. He created the Chinese Dance in Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, Ariel in The Tempest and roles in Everything Doesn't Happen at Once and Troika. Mr. Simkin's performances at ABT are sponsored by Sharon Patrick and Margaret and Michael J. Mattes.

Cory Stearns Born on Long Island, New York, Cory Stearns began his classical training at Seiskaya Ballet with Mme. Valia Seiskaya. At 15, he participated in the Youth America Grand Prix and was offered a full scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London. During his training there, he performed in Madrid, Moscow, Milan and Germany. His principal roles included principal roles in Mark Annear's Mendelssohn Concerto, Kenneth Macmillan's Concerto, Kirk Peterson's Eyes That Gently Touch, Robert Hill's Piano Concerto #2, and Barry Moreland's Fearful Symmetries. In 2004, Stearns appeared with Kylie Minogue in her music video Chocolate. Upon graduating from the Royal Ballet School with honors, he received, for the second year, the Dame Ruth Railton Award for excellence in dance. Stearns joined ABT’S Studio Company in 2004, the main Company as an apprentice in 2005; and the corps de ballet in 2006. He was promoted to soloist in 2009 and to principal dancer in 2011. Stearns’ repertory with the Company includes The Awakening Pas de Deux, Solor in La Bayadère, a featured role in Brief

Fling, Prince Charming in Cinderella, Conrad in Le Corsaire, Basilio and Espada in Don Quixote, Oberon in The Dream, a leading role in Études, Kaschei in Firebird, Albrecht in Giselle, Her Lover in Jardin aux Lilas, Des Grieux in Manon, The Nutcracker Prince in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, Onegin in Onegin, a Carnival Dancer in Othello, Romeo and Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Désiré, the Celtic Prince and a Fairy Knight in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried and von Rothbart in Swan Lake, James in La Sylphide, Orion and Apollo in Sylvia, Prospero in The Tempest, leading roles in Allegro Brillante, Duo Concertant, The Leaves Are Fading and Theme and Variations and roles in The BrahmsHaydn Variations, Citizen, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, Duets, In the Upper Room, Overgrown Path, Rabbit and Rogue, Symphony in C and Thirteen Diversions, among many others. Stearns created roles in From Here On Out, One of Three, Piano Concerto #1 and Private Light. Stearns won the 2009 Erik Bruhn Prize for best male dancer.

GUEST ARTISTS Agnes Su Agnes Su was born in California where she received her first ballet training. She worked with Salwa Rizkalla, Hanna Karacic and Askar Kettebekov, before she went to John Cranko Schule in 2010 and successfully graduated in 2013. Agnes Su had successfully participated in several competitions. She received Hope Award at semi-final Youth American Grand Prix 2008 and Youth Grand Prix at same competition in 2010. She was also awarded Bronze metal at World Ballet Competition in 2009. Agnes had received scholarships to John Cranko Schule, The Royal Ballet School, the Academie de Danse Classique Princess

Grace in Monaco, as well as Kirov Academy in Washington, The Houston Ballet School and Washington Ballet School, etc. During her last year at John Cranko Schule, she already danced in several productions of the Stuttgart Ballet. She performed “Come Neve Al Sole” by Rolando D’Alesio at Paris Opera Ballet School 300th Anniversary Gala, at Assemblee Internationale 2013 organized by Canada National Ballet School, and at the Gala Internationale Di Danza at La Fenice Teatro in Venice, Italy. She joined the Stuttgart Ballet in the season 2013/14.

Daniel Ulbricht Daniel Ulbricht was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, and began his dance training at the age of 11. At age 16, Mr. Ulbricht was invited by the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, to continue his training. As a student at SAB, Mr. Ulbricht performed with New York City Ballet as a Jester in Peter Martins' The Sleeping Beauty. In December 2000, he became an apprentice with New York City Ballet and in November 2001 he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In January 2005, Mr. Ulbricht was promoted to the rank of soloist and principal dancer in May 2007. During his time there, he has danced featured roles in a number of Balanchine, Robbins, Martins, and Wheeldon ballets including George Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, Tarantella, Stars and Stripes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozartiana, Nutcracker, Symphony in 3, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free,

Interplay, Four Seasons; and Peter Martins’s Jeu de Cartes, Hallelujah Junction, Eight More, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo + Juliet among many others. Mr. Ulbricht has also danced Tarantella at the 2004 Kennedy Center Honors to celebrate the Balanchine Centenary. He has also performed at a number of national and international festivals and galas. Mr. Ulbricht is a guest teacher at the School of American Ballet, Ballet Academy East, as well as, teaching at a number of well-known national dance schools, private schools, and universities throughout the United States. Mr. Ulbricht is currently the Artistic Advisor of Manhattan Youth Ballet. Mr. Ulbricht is also the Artistic Director of New York State Summer School for the Arts in Saratoga Springs, NY. Mr. Ulbricht is also the founder and director of “Stars of American Ballet”, a touring group focusing on high art, education and outreach.

Xenia Wiest Xenia Wiest was born the 8th of February in Moscow. She is one of the most talented upcoming choreographers in Europe. Coming from a family of musicians she developed a relation to the music very early. After receiving intensive musical education she played concert flute and sang in a choir participating in the State Theatre of Braunschweig. At the age of 13 she fell in love with the dance and made her first steps in a private school “Academie de danse” in Braunschweig. When she was 16, she joined John CrankoSchool in Stuttgart where she graduated in 2003. The same year she got her first engagement in German Opera of Berlin, followed by a guest contract as Soloist in Theatre Görlitz. Since 2004 until today she has been working with Staatballett Berlin under the direction of Vladimir Malakhov.

In the past 10 years she had the opportunities to work and dance ballets of world famous choreographers like Mauro Biggonzetti, Angelin Preljocaj, Marco Goecke, George Balanchine,William Forsythe, Maurice Bejart, etc. Her first creation was presented in the ballet evening for young choreographers “Shut up & Dance“ in 2005. Because of the big successs and the popularity among the audience, this

event was held again in 2007 and 2010 with Xenia Wiest and Nadja Saidakova being the only choreographers presenting their works in all of them. The aspects typical for Xenia´s work are her musicality, fine body aesthetics, sensitivity for the artistic humor and the talent to tell a story through the movements. Her choreographies such as: “To be continued“,“Augenblick“, “La llorona“,“Live now, think later“, “Occhi cuisi“ have been performed in well-known theatres (Komische Oper Berlin, Bellas Artes-Mexico, Kremlin-Moskau) by soloists and principals from all over the world.(Elisa Cabrera, Mikhail Kaniskin, Liudmilla Konovalova, Maria Seletskaja, Anastasia Vinakour) and have been received by the public with great enthusiasm.

Apart from choreographing for the ballet dancers and ballet companies she is eager to explore and integrate dance in other fields. This could be seen in the projects in which she presented her works like Berlin Fashion Week 2010 or advertisement for Nike Look Book 2013. In the future we expect to see more from her and looking forward for the next creation.

COMPANY DANCERS AJ Abrams is a native of Long Beach, California. He has trained throughout the United States at such schools as Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and School of American Ballet. At age 19, he was discovered by Mark Bush and began his professional career at Ballet Austin under the direction of Stephen Mills. His credits with Ballet Austin include original works by Stephen Mills such as Hamlet, a featured role in the ballet Touch, and The Taming of the Shrew. He performed a solo role in Septime Webers’ Fluctuating Hemlines and principal roles as the Sugar Plum Cavalier in The Nutcracker, Albrecht in Giselle, and the principal male in Balanchine’s Who Cares? He is currently a member of the Luminario Ballet of Los Angeles and Festival Ballet Theatre.

Freelance credits include Aurora’s Wedding Pas De Deux and The Bluebird Pas De Deux in The Sleeping Beauty, the principal male in George Balanchine’s Valse Fantasie, and original works by choreographers Josie Walsh and Jamal Story. Mr. Abrams has performed in musicals, videos and movies. Most recently, he performed in a music video for Florence and the Machine directed by David LaChapelle.

Mariana Carrillo was born in Eagle Pass, Texas in 1995. She was raised in San Jose del Cabo, BCS and started her basic dance training at age four in, "Estudio del Angel" with Luciano Gomez. In 2006, she joined "Danza Tellez" and trained ballet and jazz with Lourdes Téllez. Ms. Carrillo has trained at several summer intensive programs including, Pirouetteando, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Southland Ballet Academy. Since 2011, Mariana takes seminaries with Christina Lyon who has choreographed some pieces for her. In August 2012 she moved to Austin Texas to continue her training at Ballet Austin. Today she continues her training in California at Southland Ballet Academy under the direction of Salwa Rizkalla and Christina Lyon.

Renee Kester was born and raised in Seal Beach, California. She began her classical training at the age of 14 at Southland Ballet Academy. In 2012, she competed in World Ballet Competition in Florida where she was asked to be a trainee with The Washington Ballet. She spent 2013 at The Washington Ballet and then went on to be an apprentice with Houston Ballet in 2014. Renee has performed several ballets from Balanchine's 'Stars and Stripes' with The Washington Ballet, to Stanton Welch's 'Swan Lake' with Houston Ballet. In 2014, she toured with Houston Ballet performing David Bintley's 'Aladdin' in Chicago and Welch's 'Marie' in Montreal, Canada. Aside from ballet, Renee has had a lot of experience in other styles of dance including hip hop, break-dancing, modern, and contemporary. She has worked with and performed for choreographers such as Sonya Tayeh, Lillian Barbeito, Billy Bell, and Jessie Hartley. When Renee was just 15 she performed with Quest Crew, the winners of America's Best Dance Crew season 3, at

Harvest Moon Festival. She has won several awards from 2nd place Youth America Grand Prix, San Francisco to Music Center Spotlight Awards, Honorable Mention. Renee has also done some commercial work including an episode of Dancing with the Stars and a Florence and the Machine music video.

Natalie Matsuura is a third year BFA candidate in Dance Performance and Choreography at UCI. She trained with Southland Ballet Academy and Festival Ballet Theatre from the age of 6 and furthered her studies with summer programs at the Kirov Academy of Washington DC, ABT Orange County, the Rock School for Dance Education, and as a member of Lisa Naugle’s September 2013 DTM2 Dance Ensemble performing in collaboration with the University of Rome Tor Vegata’s Masters program in Sonic Arts. Natalie has worked with choreographers and master teachers such as Yury Fateyev, Viktor Plotnikov, and Jodie Gates and her achievements include the William J. Gillespie Scholarship in Ballet Studies at the University of California, Irvine (Fall 2013), the YoungArts Merit Award (2011), LA Music Center Spotlight Awards Semi-Finals (2010, 2011), and Top 12 in Classical and Contemporary regional categories of Youth America Grand Prix (2009-2011).

Katie Miltimore is currently a member of Festival Ballet Theatre in Fountain Valley, California. She was previously a trainee with the Ballet West Academy (on scholarship), and has trained with Salwa Rizkalla at Southland Ballet Academy for eight years. She has placed in the top 12 in both contemporary and classical categories at YAGP (2009 – 2012), placed 3rd in both categories at the regional competition (2012), and participated as a finalist at YAGP in New York City from 2010-2012. She has been a recipient of scholarships to summer intensives such as Jose Manuel Carreño, Orlando Ballet, and Ballet West, attended Houston Ballet’s summer intensive program in 2011 and Ballet West’s summer intensive in 2012 and 2013 on full scholarship. Katie was also invited to perform as a soloist at the International Ballet Festival in Miami, Florida, in 2011, and participated in the YAGP tour that same year. In 2013, she was invited to guest star as Lead Arabian in the Nutcracker for Ava Ballet Theater in Reno, Nevada.

Megan Yamashita attends Orange Coast College.

She has been at Southland Ballet Academy, under the direction of Salwa Rizkalla, since the age of three. Some of her accomplishments include garnering Second Place in the Junior Division at the 2007 Youth America Grand Prix International Competition in Faenza, Italy; Semifinalist in classical as well as nonclassical dance at the 2008 Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards, with honorable mention in classical dance. Yamashita is also a grand prize winner of 2008 Orange County Performing Arts Center’s “Tomorrow’s Stars at the Center” in classical dance discipline.

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