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Adam Sklute
Scott Altman
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Christiana Bennett Katherine Lawrence Tom Mattingly Christopher Ruud Haley Henderson Smith Arolyn Williams First Soloists Elizabeth McGrath Beau Pearson Christopher Sellars Jacqueline Straughan Rex Tilton Soloists
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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome! When Le Sacre du Printemps, or The Rite of Spring, premiered in Paris in 1913 it caused a riot. The elegant “belle epoque” audience of the day simply could not accept the shocking pagan ritual of Vaslav Nijinsky’s earthy, angular, knock-kneed choreography nor the overwhelming, almost animalistic power of Stravinsky’s driving dissonant score. After a small handful of performances, the original ballet was considered lost for almost 75 years. However, the orchestral score became a huge success in concert and widely thought to be one of the most influential pieces of 20th Century music. Over the years, the ballet has been recreated by other choreographers around the world. The original Stravinsky/Nijinsky collaboration was reconstructed in 1987 and performed internationally by the Joffrey Ballet, receiving standing ovations, particularly in the theater in Paris where it caused such a scandal all those many years before. I was part of that reconstruction and a member of that cast and we truly felt the power and scope of this incredible work. Now it is the 100th anniversary season of the premiere of “Le Sacre” and the 50th anniversary of Ballet West. Our whole season has been designed to commemorate different aspects of our company’s expansive and versatile style and as part of this celebration I knew I wanted to look to the future with a major new creation – a brand new version of Le Sacre du Printemps – The Rite of Spring. And, who better to tackle this massive, remarkable score than our resident choreographer Nicolo Fonte? For this new production Nicolo has created a world, perhaps pre-historic, perhaps futuristic, that is driven by the same sense of ritual that the original had but does not follow a formal libretto. Instead, Nicolo’s “Rite” works with the themes of the original story in dramatic, evocative, and subtle ways. Note his constant motif of a lone figure apart from the group, possibly representing the sacrificial chosen one that Nijinsky and Stravinsky envisioned. But what about the child that appears throughout the ballet? Is this child a representation of an underlying theme of ritual sacrifice aimed at continuing the cycle of birth and rebirth? Or, is the child a specter of the future judging this ritual as something primitive and barbaric. The genius of Nicolo’s work is that he makes us ask such questions and lets us interpret his work as we will. He moves The Rite of Spring from a violent pagan ritual to a beatific baptism. I paired The Rite of Spring with two other ballets by 20th Century and contemporary masters. Opening the performance will be the Ballet West premiere of Jiří Kylián’s moving and dynamic Forgotten Land set to the music of Benjamin Britten. Then, we go to our revival of George Balanchine’s gentle and elegant Divertimento No. 15 with the music of Mozart. Our repertoire is vast and varied and is definitely a product of our eclectic history. I think our current Ballet West company is remarkable in its ability to adapt to any style and this strength is highlighted perfectly by this program. I cannot thank you enough for your patronage and I am excited about this show and next year’s season, which launches our next 50 years. Your Ballet West is truly a company that can do it all!
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The 2013-2014 season marks the celebration of Ballet West’s 50 years and a recollection of the wonderful memories that have made Ballet West the great world-class company you have come to expect. This spring, as we celebrate renewal, we can also look forward to significant newness for Ballet West, from next season’s opening of the state of the art Jessie Eccles Quinney Ballet Centre to new and exciting world premieres that grace Ballet West’s stage. At today’s performance Ballet West presents to you three refreshing and breathtaking productions in celebration of Spring. This time of year, it seems most appropriate to include a production meant to renew and refresh the spirit. As a capstone in celebration of Ballet West’s 50th Anniversary, we are honored and so very excited to feature a world premiere as Ballet West resident choreographer Nicolo Fonte pays tribute to Igor Stravinsky’s, The Rite of Spring. Set to the enchanting and emotionally stirring works of Benjamin Britten, Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land is sure to leave an unforgettable memory. Finally, what music lover’s bouquet of a production would not be complete without Mozart, which carefully and so elegantly is showcased in George Balanchine’s classic Divertimento No. 15. The importance of creating and introducing our patrons to new works is one of the driving forces behind Ballet West. Whether it is a classical ballet, an historical masterpiece, or a new cutting-edge creation, Ballet West strives each and every day to bring you the highest caliber of talent and training. Thank you so very much for being a part of the Ballet West family, and please join us in celebration of spring!
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Forgotten Land
(Utah Premiere) Dance Production / Choreography by Jiří Kylián Assistant to the Choreographer: Roslyn Anderson Music by Benjamin Britten Conducted by Jared Oaks
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Divertimento No. 15
Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Assistant to the Choreographer: Diana White Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conducted by Jared Oaks
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The Rite of Spring
(World Premiere) Choreography by Nicolo Fonte Music by Igor Stravinsky Conducted by Tara Simoncic (April 11, 12, 18 & 19) and Jared Oaks (April 16 & 17) Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre 50 West 200 South Salt Lake City, Utah April 11, 12, and 16-19, 2014 The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with two intermissions. Featuring the Utah Chamber Orchestra The live orchestra for all Ballet West performances is generously funded by the
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CASTING
Forgotten Land (Utah Premiere)
Dance Production/Choreography by Jiří Kylián Assistant to the Choreographer: Roslyn Anderson Music by Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Opus 20* Lighting by Kees Tjebbes, after Joop Caboort Set and Costume Designs by John F. MacFarlane Forgotten Land is one of Jiří Kylián masterpieces. The ballet has won high praise internationally. Made in 1981, it is set to Benjamin Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem.” The master choreographer was inspired by a painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, on which three women are pictured in various stages of life. In addition, Kylián was inspired by East Anglia, the English coastline where Benjamin Britten was born, which is slowly disappearing under the sea. Nature constantly takes on other forms, just as human relationships do.
Cast for: Fri. 4/11, Wed. 4/16, Fri. 4/18, Sat. 4/19 eve.
Jacqueline Straughan Allison DeBona Amy Potter Katherine Lawrence Katie Critchlow Emily Adams
Christopher Anderson Adrian Fry Trevor Naumann Tom Mattingly Alexander MacFarlan Rex Tilton
Christiana Bennett Beckanne Sisk Paige Adams Katlyn Addison Jenna Rae Herrera Sayaka Ohtaki
Beau Pearson Tyler Gum Ronald Tilton Christopher Sellars Zachary Prentice Chase O’Connell
Cast for: Sat. 4/12, Thurs. 4/17, Sat. 4/19 mat.
Scenery and Costumes Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada *By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner World Premiere: April 12, 1981, Stuttgarter Ballet – Stuttgart, Germany Ballet West Premiere: April 11, 2014, Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City
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CASTING Divertimento No. 15
Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento No. 15 in B-flat major, K.287 Lighting by Michael J. Mazzola Costume Design by David Heuvel Staged by Diana White
Balanchine considered Mozart’s “Divertimento No. 15” in B flat one of the finest pieces of music ever written. As always, the choreographer’s sensitivity to music is unparalleled, creating delicate variations of unassuming elegance. The ballet was choreographed in 1956 and is structurally quite unusual as it showcases five principal women and three men, with an ensemble of eight women. Divertimento No. 15 is like a cool, lovely, perfumed, breeze for the soul. But, don’t be mistaken: the soft elegance of this ballet masks a fiendishly difficult work that challenges the dancers to the greatest degree. – Adam Sklute
Cast for: Fri. 4/11, Wed. 4/16, Fri. 4/18, Sat. 4/19 eve.
EMILY ADAMS CHRISTIANA BENNETT ALLISON DEBONA JENNA RAE HERRERA JACQUELINE STRAUGHAN ADRIAN FRY CHASE O’CONNELL BEAU PEARSON Katlyn Addison Kimberly Ballard Katie Critchlow Sarah Hochman Whitney Huell Amy Potter Jamie Lynn Schultz Elizabeth Weldon
Cast for: Sat. 4/12, Thurs. 4/17, Sat. 4/19 mat.
KATIE CRITCHLOW LINDSAY DUERFELDT KATHERINE LAWRENCE SAYAKA OHTAKI BECKANNE SISK TYLER GUM ALEXANDER MACFARLAN REX TILTON Paige Adams Kimberly Ballard Jenna Rae Herrera Sarah Hochman Whitney Huell Amy Potter Jordan Richardson Elizabeth Weldon The performance of Divertimento 15, 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.
World Premiere: May 31, 1956, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York Ballet West Premiere: August 2, 1990, Aspen High School Performing Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado Ballet West Salt Lake City Premiere: September 13, 1990, Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City
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CASTING
The Rite of Spring (World Premiere)
Choreography by Nicolo Fonte Music by Igor Stravinsky Scenery and Lighting by Michael J. Mazzola Costume Design by David Heuvel Even though I choreographed to this powerful and exhilarating music back in 2006, I was fascinated by the idea of inhabiting Stravinsky’s world again. But, how was I to make it new and fresh? My 2006 version had a heavy storyline and I was not interested in exploring that again. Instead, I decided to focus on the DNA of the piece – the music. I wanted to strip this version of all literal narrative content and dive into the rhythmical structure of the score. Yet, there is something inherently ritualistic and primitive at the core of this music that resonates within our collective subconscious, making it difficult to ignore dramatic content altogether. Another hurdle to creating something new is the fact that the premiere of the original work had emphatically marked its place in the history of 20th century art! So why a 21st century version? There is something liberating in trying to hear music as if for the first time and allowing it to elicit a visceral response in your body and soul. Ultimately, I found The Rite of Spring to be about basic, primitive, and instinctual emotions and desires that triggered many associations in my mind. That was enough of a reason, and story, for me.
– Nicolo Fonte
~ For Kevin ~
Cast: Henry Winn* Katlyn Addison & Christopher Anderson Christiana Bennett & Beau Pearson Katherine Lawrence Tom Mattingly Christopher Sellars Allison DeBona Rex Tilton Emily Adams, Katie Critchlow, Lindsay Duerfeldt, Tyler Gum, Alexander MacFarlan, Sayaka Ohtaki, Zachary Prentice, Ronald Tilton, Elizabeth Weldon Ballet West wishes to thank the Utah Opera, Jared Porter, Keith Ladanye, Dennis Schoenhardt, and John Cook whose help and insight made The Rite of Spring scenery construction possible.
Commissioned by Ballet West World Premiere: April 11, 2014, Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City *Student of the Ballet West Academy
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LEADERSHIP
Adam Sklute Artistic Director
Adam Sklute has brought Ballet West national and international recognition as Artistic Director. Since he began with Ballet West in March 2007, the company has appeared twice at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Ballet Across America Festival in 2008 with Balanchine’s Serenade and a seven-show run in 2012 of Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker with six soldout performances); twice at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance (in 2009 with Nijinska’s Les Biches and in 2012 with the Grand Pas from Paquita); three times in Chicago (at the Chicago Dancing Festival in 2010 with Serenade, in 2011 with Jiří Kylián’s Sinfonietta, and in 2013 with The Sleeping Beauty and a Repertory Program at the famed Auditorium Theatre); and twice in Las Vegas in collaborative programs with Nevada Ballet Theatre. Ballet West has also graced the cover of Dance Magazine twice – in 2009 and 2013 – and has garnered rave reviews from The New York Times for The Treasures of the Ballets Russes and The Nutcracker. In addition, the Company was recently the subject of the docu-drama “Breaking Pointe” for two seasons. Sklute has introduced Ballet West to such renowned contemporary choreographers as Jiří Kylián, Mark Morris, and Twyla Tharp, among others, while expanding the company’s Balanchine repertoire and adding early 20th century Diaghilev-era masterpieces. In addition to reintroducing lost elements of Christensen’s production of The Nutcracker, Sklute has conceived and produced new versions of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty and developed Ballet West’s wildly successful new works program, Innovations. Sklute danced with the Joffrey Ballet starting in 1985 and rose to the ranks of Associate Director from 2005 to 2007. He is an Adjunct Professor of Ballet at The University of Utah and a teacher, lecturer, coach and judge of ballet worldwide.
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LEADERSHIP Scott Altman Executive Director
Scott Altman joins Ballet West as the company’s newly appointed Executive Director. He brings with him nearly three decades of experience in the performing arts and non-profit arts administration. Altman is the former General Director of the Phoenix-based Arizona Opera where, under his leadership, the company experienced unprecedented patron growth and expanded audience development. He also oversaw the design and construction of a new Opera Center in central Phoenix and successfully consolidated operations into one city. Altman’s professional activities, association and community activities include, among many others, serving as Regional and District Adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera National Council, The University of Arizona Presidents Competition, and the Dallas Opera Competition. Altman is also the Recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Citation of Excellence for 2007, 2008 and 2009. Prior to his roles in administration, Scott had a 20-year career as a professional singer and performed 37 distinct opera roles throughout the country. Along his path to administration, Scott was also an instructor of opera at Princeton University. He continues to instruct master classes and adjudicate prominent vocal competitions nationwide. Altman went on to complete his Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music in New York, after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the State University College at Purchase in Purchase, New York.
PROFILES Jiří Kylián
Choreography, Forgotten Land
George Balanchine
Choreography, Divertimento No. 15
George Balanchine is regarded as one of the foremost contemporary choreographers in the world of ballet. He came to America in 1933 and established the School of American Ballet in 1934. In 1948, Balanchine established the New York City Ballet and presented its first program consisting of Concerto Barocco, Orpheus and Symphony in C. Balanchine served as ballet master for the New York City Ballet from 1948 until his death in 1983, choreographing the majority of the productions the company has introduced since its inception. An authoritative catalogue of his works lists 425 works created by Balanchine in his lifetime. Balanchine’s style has been described as neoclassic. A gifted musician himself, his response to the Romantic Classicism was to de-emphasize the plot in his ballets, preferring to let “dance and music be the star of the show.” Nevertheless, tantalizing hints of a story color his works in such ballets as Apollo, Harlequinade, Liebesliede Waltzer, and La Sonnambula. The New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet remain dedicated to the preservation of Balanchine’s ideals.
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“I think that our task as choreographers is to search the extremities of our souls,” says Jiří Kylián. Since the early 1970s, the celebrated Czech choreographer, 63, has created 100 works – three-quarters for the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). His creations draw inspiration from many different sources, combine elements from diverse art forms and defy categorisation. First smitten with the magic of circus, young Kylián started his studies as an acrobat. But, at the age of nine, he began training as a dancer at the Prague National Theatre ballet school. Six years later, in 1962, he was accepted at the Prague Conservatory and, in 1967-68, won a scholarship to London’s Royal Ballet School. There he met the influential choreographer John Cranko, who offered him a contract with the Stuttgart Ballet, and encouraged him to pursue his choreographic career. Kylián left Germany in 1975 to become the Artistic Co-Director of the Nederlands Dans Theater, for which he earlier created several pieces as guest choreographer. In 1978, following the success of his choreography Sinfonietta at the ”Festival of Two Worlds” in Charleston, South Carolina, he became NDT’s sole artistic director. Symphony of Psalms (also 1978) was the second significant creation of this time. This work had a decisive influence on any further development of the company, and on its international reputation. In the mid-1980s, Kylián’s work became more abstract, and is best represented by the series of his Black and White choreographies. His encounter with the Australian Aboriginals, which took place at that time, played a decisive role in his understanding of dance, as an important “corner stone” of our social structure, and an inevitable facet of our “artistic horizon.” Kylián marked NDT’s 35th anniversary by creating Arcimboldo (1994) for all three companies of NDT (each one of these companies employs dancers from different age groups). This unique and award winning three-dimensional company structure encompasses all phases of a dancer’s career (between the age of 17 and 70). Kylián stepped down as artistic director of NDT in 1999, and became resident choreographer until December 2009. Venerated for his choreographic work for dancers of all age groups, Kylián has received many honors, including the Nijinsky Award in Monaco, and the Legion d’Honneur of France. In 2008 he was distinguished with one of the highest royal honors, the Medal of the Order of the House of Orange given to him by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix from the Netherlands. In 2006, he co-created a film, CAR-MEN, which was choreographed and filmed in a devastated landscape of a surface coalmine in the Czech Republic.
Ballet West
2013 - 2014
ADAM SKLUTE - Artistic Director
The Firebird
with Petite Mort & Who Cares? November 8, 9 & 13 - 16, 2013 AT KINGSBURY HALL
AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE
February 7 - 9 & 12 - 16, 2014 AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE
April 11, 12 & 16 - 19, 2014 AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE
featuring Ballet West II April 4 - 6, 2014
May 16, 17 & 21 - 24, 2014 AT THE ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE
Season Tickets Start at $42
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PRINCIPAL ARTISTS
Christiana Bennett
Tom Mattingly
Townsend, Massachusetts Joined Ballet West in 1999
Ridgecrest, California Joined Ballet West in 2008
Katherine Lawrence Fairfield, Connecticut Joined Ballet West in 2004
Christopher Ruud
Arolyn Williams
San Francisco, California Joined Ballet West in 1998
Rowe, Pennsylvania Joined Ballet West II in 2004 Joined Ballet West in 2006
Haley Henderson Smith Ventura, California Joined Ballet West in 2010
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FIRST SOLOISTS
Elizabeth McGrath
Christopher Sellars
Miller Place, New York Joined Ballet West in 2001
Huntington Beach, California Joined Ballet West II in 2004 Joined Ballet West in 2006
Beau Pearson
San Francisco, California Joined Ballet West in 2007
Jacqueline Straughan Carson City, Nevada Joined Ballet West in 2006
Rex Tilton
San Diego, California Joined Ballet West in 2008
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SOLOISTS
Emily Adams
Newtown, Pennsylvania Joined Ballet West II in 2005 Joined Ballet West in 2007
Sayaka Ohtaki
Tokyo, Japan Joined Ballet West in 2010
Allison DeBona
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Joined Ballet West in 2007
Christopher Anderson Baltimore, Maryland Joined Ballet West in 2001
Adrian Fry
Beckanne Sisk
Omaha, Nebraska Joined Ballet West in 2010
Longview, Texas Joined Ballet West II in 2010 Joined Ballet West in 2011
Sayaka Ohtaki
Tokyo, Japan Joined Ballet West in 2010
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DEMI-SOLOISTS
Katie Critchlow
San Diego, California Joined Ballet West in 2006
Lindsay Duerfeldt
Modesto, California Joined Ballet West II in 2008 Joined Ballet West in 2009
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ARTISTS
Paige Adams
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West II in 2011 Joined Ballet West in 2012
Elanor Bock*
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West in 2012
Kaya Aman*
Katlyn Addison
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West II in 2011 Joined Ballet West in 2012
Tyler Gum
Bayonne, New Jersey Joined Ballet West in 2012
Ontario, Canada Joined Ballet West in 2011
Colorado Springs, Colorado Joined Ballet West II in 2009 Joined Ballet West in 2010
Sarah Hochman
Ossining, New York Joined Ballet West in 2012
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Jaime Hickey*
Whitney Huell
Irmo, South Carolina Joined Ballet West II in 2007 Joined Ballet West in 2009
Kimberly Ballard
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West II in 2011 Joined Ballet West in 2012
Jenna Rae Herrera Ontario, California Joined Ballet West II in 2007 Joined Ballet West in 2010
ARTISTS
Alexander MacFarlan Nashville, Tennessee Joined Ballet West II in 2007 Joined Ballet West in 2009
Zachary Prentice
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West II in 2011 Joined Ballet West in 2012
Chase O’Connell
Trevor Naumann
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West II in 2012 Joined Ballet West in 2013
Jordan Richardson
Pasco, Washington Joined Ballet West II in 2009 Joined Ballet West in 2011
New York, New York Joined Ballet West II in 2009 Joined Ballet West in 2011
Boulder, Colorado Joined Ballet West in 2011
Jordan Veit
Seattle, Washington Joined Ballet West II in 2012 Joined Ballet West in 2013
Jamie Lynn Schultz
Elizabeth Weldon Duxbury, Massachusetts Joined Ballet West in 2010
Amy Potter
Roanoke, Virginia Joined Ballet West II in 2011 Joined Ballet West in 2012
Ronald Tilton
San Diego, California Joined Ballet West II in 2010 Joined Ballet West in 2012
Joshua Whitehead
Chesapeake, Virginia Joined Ballet West II in 2010 Joined Ballet West in 2012
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BALLET WEST II
Alex Cambie
Auckland, New Zealand Joined Ballet West II in 2013
Stephen Nakagawa Fontana, California Joined Ballet West II in 2013
Lauren Denney
Clemente, California Joined Ballet West II in 2013
Kazlyn Nielsen
Spanish Fork,Utah Joined Ballet West II in 2012
Mary Ann Schaefer Fishers, Indiana Joined Ballet West II in 2012
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Lucas Horns
Salt Lake City, Utah Joined Ballet West II in 2013
Sanford Placide
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Joined Ballet West II in 2013
Daniella Spitelli
Chicago, Illinois Joined Ballet West II in 2013
Logan Martin
Silverdale, Washington Joined Ballet West II in 2012
Mercedes Rice
Salt Lake City, Utah Joined Ballet West II in 2013
PROFILES Nicolo Fonte
Choreography, The Rite of Spring Nicolo Fonte is known for his daring and original approach to dance. His work has been noted by critics for a unique movement language as well as a highly developed fusion of ideas, dance and design. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fonte started dancing at the age of 14. He studied at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York as well as at the San Francisco Ballet and New York City Ballet Schools while completing a Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase. Upon graduation he danced with Peridance in NYC and later joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal, dancing in the works of Balanchine, Tudor, Kudelka and Spaniard Nacho Duato. Fonte subsequently joined Duato’s Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid and forged a strong identity in the Spanish company for seven years – for both his dancing and his choreography. En los Segundos Ocultos, (In Hidden Seconds), one of three ballets Fonte made for the Spanish company, was hailed as a breakthrough work of great impact with the poetic vision of a mature artist and indeed this ballet established his presence on the European dance scene. In 2000 Fonte retired from performing to devote himself full-time to his choreographic career. Since that time he has created or staged his ballets for The Dutch National Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Stuttgart Ballet, The Australian Ballet, The Göteborg Ballet, The Finnish National Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, The Washington Ballet, Ballett Mainz, Ballett Nürnberg, Ballet West, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, TANZ Ensemble Cathy Sharp, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Tulsa Ballet, Ballet British Columbia and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal. Fonte received a Choo San Goh award for his 2002 collaboration with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Almost Tango, of which R.M.Campbell of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote, “Fonte is a thinker, an architect who creates the new rather than reinvent the old. He is a master of manipulating space and creating relationships.” Almost Tango was also voted as one of Dance Europe’s “Best Premieres” when it was re-staged for The Australian Ballet in 2004. His subsequent creation for the company, The Possibility Space, premiered in Melbourne in September of 2008. From 2002 to 2006 Nicolo enjoyed an ongoing creative partnership with The Göteborg Ballet in Sweden, creating and staging numerous works that helped establish the company’s distinct profile. While in Göteborg he created his first full-length ballet, based on the life of Tchaikovsky, which was widely acclaimed in the international press for Fonte’s marriage of narrative skill and a contemporary choreographic language. Re: Tchaikovsky appeared on the “Best of 2005” lists of both Ballett-Tanz and Dance Europe. Fonte has also played an important role in the ongoing development of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet as one of that company’s most popular guest choreographers. To date he has created six highly successful works for ASFB that have toured throughout the US and overseas. Jack Anderson, writing in The New York Times called Fonte “a choreographer worth knowing” when the company presented Left Unsaid at The Joyce Theater in 2005. ASFB continues to invest in their relationship with Nicolo Fonte: their recent production of In Hidden Seconds was greeted with rapturous reviews and audience response. Nicolo returned for a seventh creation in Aspen in February 2011. Fonte consistently works with some of the most dynamic companies on both sides of the Atlantic: since July of 2009 he has created new works for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and The Dutch National Ballet, a fourth creation for The Royal Ballet of Flanders, and has had work staged or revived for The Washington Ballet, The Finnish National Ballet, and Oregon Ballet Theater.
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PROFILES Benjamin Britten Music, Forgotten Land
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) is widely regarded as the greatest British composer of his generation: a master of dramatic music in the forms of opera, choral and orchestral works. Often alienated by the prevailing musical establishment, Britten brought into his music influences from European and American contemporary composers, as well as Balinese gamelan. He was equally adept at writing for professionals, amateurs and children, and composed prolifically throughout his life until illness curtailed his activities. He was awarded a life peerage in 1976, becoming Baron Britten of Aldeburgh where he lived for more than thirty years and founded the famous festival in 1948.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music, Divertimento No. 15
Mozart was born in 1756 in what is now Salzburg, Austria. His father Leopold Mozart was a choir master, a minor composer and an experienced teacher. At age four Wolfgang himself began keyboard lessons playing without fault and with great sensitivity. By age five he was composing short pieces which his father wrote down for him. In the following year Wolfgang began traveling with his father giving concerts in the courts of Europe. While touring, Mozart learned to play the violin and the organ. At age eight, Mozart published his first two sonatas for the harpsichord. His skills as a composer continued to develop, and by age 13 he had composed his first opera at the request of an emperor. By the time Mozart was in his mid-twenties he had established himself as one of the most accomplished keyboard players in Vienna. On December 5, 1791, Mozart died at 35 years of age, leaving behind a collection of more than 600 compositions, including works for the symphony, the piano, and the opera that profoundly shaped classical music and are considered to be some of the finest works in the Classical style.
Igor Stravinsky
Music, The Rite of Spring
Born in Russia, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) did not discover his musical talent until he enrolled in law school. There, under the influence of Nikolai RimskyKorsakov, Stravinsky soon found the limelight in composing for Ballets Russes: Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). The latter work caused a celebrated scandal at its first performance and remains one of the best-known and most influential pieces of 20th century music. Stravinsky drew inspiration from a wide range of music, including contemporary artist Picasso, jazz movements in the United States, and a continuous interest in baroque and classical pieces. The restless, “spiky” rhythms and sharp, pungent harmonies run through Stravinsky’s work like an indelible musical fingerprint. These elements of his style, and the versatile ways in which he used them, help to explain his status as one of the 20th century’s greatest composers.
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PROFILES Roslyn Anderson Staging, Forgotten Land
Born in Australia, Roslyn Anderson studied first with Phyllis Danaher, then at The Australian Ballet School, from which she graduated into The Australian Ballet. Six years later she joined Nederlands Dans Theater, then directed by Jaap Filer, as a result of their Australian tour in 1972. She danced with NDT until 1986, working with choreographers Glen Tetley, Hans Van Manen, Louis Falco, Jennifer Muller, Christopher Bruce and Jirí Kylián. Since ending her dancing career in 1986, Anderson has been the rehearsal director for NDT 1 and, since 1979, she has assisted Kylián, and others, on numerous works and has staged works for Kylián worldwide. Companies she has worked with include the San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Cullberg Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Paris Opera Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, The Australian Ballet, Compañia Nacional de Danza, and the Royal Danish Ballet. Petite Mort is the second Kylián ballet to be staged for Ballet West by Anderson, since Sinfonietta in 2011.
Diana White
Staging, Divertimento No. 15
Diana White began ballet lessons at age four in Park Ridge, Illinois. When she was fourteen she auditioned for Maria Tallchief’s newly founded Lyric Opera of Chicago Ballet, and was accepted as its youngest member. Tallchief, in charge of shaping the new company, gave daily class and used her own Balanchine repertoire to teach and coach her dancers. Among the roles Diana learned were excerpts from The Four Temperaments, Orpheus, Symphony in C, Allegro Brillante, Apollo, Concerto Barocco, the Grand Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker, and Sylvia Pas de Deux. This experience, combined with having appeared at age ten as a bug in Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set Diana on a lifetime course of studying, performing, teaching, and coaching Balanchine’s work. A year after Balanchine came to Chicago to choreograph the Lyric Opera’s 1975 production of Gluck’s opera, Orfeo, he invited Diana to study at the School of American Ballet. In 1977, she became an apprentice to the New York City Ballet. One year later, at eighteen, she entered the company. During her twenty-year career at NYCB she worked directly with Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She danced corps de ballet, soloist, and principal roles in over fifty Balanchine and twenty Robbins ballets. Her repertoire included principal roles in Balanchine’s Agon, Apollo, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Episodes, The Firebird, The Four Temperaments, Liebeslieder Walzer, Orpheus, The Nutcracker, Rubies, Serenade, Tchaikovsky Suite #3, Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir, Vienna Waltzes, and Western Symphony, as well as Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs, The Cage, The Concert, Dances at a Gathering, Fancy Free, The Four Seasons, Glass Pieces, the Goldberg variations, Ives, Songs, Moves, and Watermill. In addition to her work with both masters, she was mentored and coached by Suzanne Farrell, Violette Verdy, and Karin Von Aroldingen. Several years before retiring from the stage, encouraged by Suzanne Farrell, Diana began to teach. She opened her own school in Scarsdale, New York in 1992, where she continues as Artistic Director. She has been on the faculty of the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College and has taught master classes throughout the United States. She has used her intimate knowledge of the Balanchine repertoire to help develop dancers, staging his works on advanced students in annual productions at the Scarsdale Ballet Studio. Several of her former students are now dancing professionally in companies such as the American Ballet Theater, Miami City Ballet, and the Boston Ballet. Continued on page 40
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The process of passing on Balanchine’s choreography, aesthetic, technique, musicality, and philosophy to her own students prepared Diana to work with dancers around the world. Since 2004, she has staged Balanchine ballets on professional companies and schools from the United States to New Zealand. Diana has a deep understanding of the classical ballet traditions that shaped Balanchine. She greatly respects today’s dancers, teachers, coaches, and directors who dedicate themselves to the preservation and continuation of ballet. She is thrilled and honored to work with them as an emissary of George Balanchine’s incomparable legacy.
ARTISTIC STAFF Pamela Robinson-Harris
Principal Ballet Mistress/Choreographer Pamela Robinson-Harris has served as Ballet Mistress for Ballet West for over 15 years as well as the Company’s Interim Artistic Director from 20062007. Her career began with the Cleveland Ballet, followed by the State of Alabama Ballet in 1982 and Ballet Mississippi in 1984. Pamela joined Ballet West in 1985, advancing to Principal in 1988. During her career, Pamela performed in some of the most prestigious theatres in America, performing principal roles in most major classical works, including those of George Balanchine, Val Caniparoli, Sir Frederick Ashton and Ben Stevenson. Pamela, together with Nevada Ballet Theater Ballet Mistress Peggy Dolkas, co-choreographed two ballets for Ballet West’s Family Series – The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. She also reworked major sections of Ballet West’s productions of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, and has choreographed for Ballet West II and the Ballet West Pre-Professional Trainee Division.
Bruce Caldwell
Ballet Master/Company Archivist Bruce Caldwell began his ballet career in 1961 in the children’s roles of Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker. He joined Ballet West as an Apprentice in 1968 and rose through the ranks to become a Principal in 1972, a position he held for 18 years before joining the artistic staff in 1990. In 1989 he received the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Excellence in the Arts Award, and a year later, the Governor’s Award, presented by the Utah Arts Council. Caldwell was appointed to his present position of Ballet Master in 1997 and assumed the additional role of Company Archivist in 2007.
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ARTISTIC STAFF Jane Wood-Smith
Ballet Mistress Born in Washington, D.C., Jane received her training at the Washington School of Ballet. At 15, she was invited to perform with the Grand Theatre de Genève in Switzerland under Patricia Neary and George Balanchine. Jane joined Ballet West in 1979, rising to the rank of Principal Dancer and performing the title roles in Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Coppelia, and Lady of the Camellias, as well as a full range of contemporary ballets created by world-renowned choreographers. In 2001, Jane retired from Ballet West. She graduated from The University of Utah with a Bachelor’s degree in Ballet, became Faculty Coordinator for the Ballet West Conservatory, and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of Utah. Jane joined Florida State University’s Department of Dance in 2002 as Visiting Assistant Professor before returning to Utah in 2004. She continued teaching at The University of Utah and was a guest teacher for Ballet West and the Academy. Jane was the Children’s Ballet Mistress for Ballet West’s The Nutcracker for two years. Jane joined Ballet West’s artistic staff in 2011. She continues to conduct auditions for the Ballet West Summer Intensive across the country.
Heather Thackeray
Assistant to the Artistic Director Prior to her appointment as Assistant to the Artistic Director, Adam Sklute, Heather enjoyed a 20-year career as a dancer with Ballet West. A Utah native, Heather began taking ballet and tap lessons from her mother at age 3. She continued her studies at the Ballet West Conservatory and joined Ballet West in 1991. Her performance highlights include Ceres in Michael Smuin’s The Tempest, Songbird Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Spring Fairy in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Suzuki in Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly, and the Doll and Lead Mirliton in Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker. Heather holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Utah. She is a well respected teacher, assisting in company rehearsals and overseeing the children’s roles in Ballet West productions.
Christopher Sellars
Ballet West First Soloist/Interim Director of Ballet West II Christopher received eight years of training under his parents at Orange County Dance Center in Huntington Beach, California, followed by The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christopher became a founding member of Ballet West’s second company, Ballet West II, in 2005. The following year, he joined the main company as a corps de ballet member before being promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2008, followed by Soloist in 2010. He was recently promoted to First Soloist for Ballet West’s 2013-14 season in addition to being named Interim Director for Ballet West II.
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PRODUCTION STAFF Michael Andrew Currey
Director of Production and Artistic Operations In a 25-plus year career in theatre, Michael Andrew Currey has served in production leadership roles at The Joffrey Ballet, New York City Opera, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, San Diego Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Moonlight Amphitheatre, Bucks County Playhouse, San Diego Civic Light Opera, and others. Michael can also be seen in Robert Altman’s film “The Company,” in which he plays the stage.
David Heuvel
Costume Production Director David Heuvel has been associated with Ballet West since 1979. Apart from his work for Ballet West, he has designed and built costumes nationally and internationally, including Ballet Du Nord (France), Singapore Ballet, Washington Ballet, Carolina Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, Atlanta Ballet and Richmond Ballet.
Michael McCulloch
Production Stage Manager Michael McCulloch graduated from The University of Utah with a degree in Theatre Production and Design. He has worked for numerous Utah dance and theatre companies including Utah Opera, Promised Valley Playhouse, and Odyssey Dance Theatre. In his 29 years with Ballet West, he has been Assistant Stage Manager, Assistant Electrician, Master Electrician, and in 2000 became Production Stage Manager. Michael has been a member of Actors Equity Association for 29 years and a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 99 (Stagehands) for over 25 years.
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MUSIC STAFF Terence Kern
Music Director Emeritus Terence Kern graduated from the University of Wales and went on to study piano and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music in London. After studying with Nadia Boulanger and Constantin Silvestri, he won the school’s coveted Conductors Prize. Conducting became a calling that would take Kern around the world. He began his career as Staff Conductor for the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company (now the English National Opera). In 1972, he became Music Director for the London Festival Ballet, a position he held for eight years. During this time, he made major ballet recordings for E.M.I. In 1980, he became the Music Director for the Scottish Ballet and later for the Joffrey Ballet. While working with the Joffrey, Kern also conducted most of the leading symphony orchestras in the United States. Kern has traveled the world as a freelance conductor. His freelance conducting with Ballet West led to a permanent position with the Company as Music Director and Principal Conductor in 1988, a role he held until 2012, when he transitioned to Ballet West’s Music Director Emeritus.
Jared Oaks
Associate Conductor and Rehearsal Pianist Jared Oaks, a native of Tacoma, Washington, is in his sixth season as Associate Conductor and Principal Rehearsal Pianist for Ballet West. Since joining the company, Jared has conducted or soloed in over one hundred performances at the Capitol Theatre, and on recent tours he made successful debuts at the Kennedy Center and Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Beyond his active rehearsal schedule, Jared has played for classes at the Royal Danish Ballet, Balettakademien Stockholm, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Summer Intensive, the University of Utah, Regional Dance America, Burklyn Ballet Theatre, and the Barlow Arts Conservatory. Jared graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance and a Master of Music in choral conducting under Ronald Staheli and Rosalind Hall. His piano teachers include Richard Anderson, Duane Hulbert, and Marjorie SkreenDickerson. In addition to conducting studies with Music Director Emeritus Terence Kern, Jared has pursued training through master classes taught by Noel Edison with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Elora Festival Singers; Dan-Olof Stenlund, Cecilia Rydinger Alin, and Christina Hörnell at the College of Music in Malmö, Sweden; Erwin Ortner at the World Choral Symposium in Copenhagen; and Z. Randall Stroope at the University of Puget Sound. Jared’s varied research interests have resulted in presentations for the American Choral Directors Association, the Utah State Historical Society, the interdisciplinary symposium Opera Periphereia; and a major fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to create an anthology of Swedish operatic arias. Other projects include a comprehensive anthology of choral music from Utah; and studies in the music of composers Arthur Shepherd and Leroy Robertson.
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MUSIC STAFF Tara Simoncic
Guest Conductor Tara Simoncic made her conducting debut with Ballet West last Fall. Passionate about working with ballet, Simoncic recently returned from Russia, where she conducted the Chuvash State Opera Ballet in productions of Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, and The Nutcracker. In 2011, Simoncic conducted and collaborated with the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet on a new production of Carnival of the Animals. Simoncic has also worked as Assistant Conductor with the Martha Graham Dance Company for performances and recordings at the New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Currently, Simoncic holds the posts of Associate Conductor of the Greenwich Symphony (CT) as well as Conductor of the Flexible Orchestra, a contemporary music ensemble based in New York City. From 2010-2012, Simoncic held the posts of Assistant Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony (PA), where she conducted Pops and Family Concerts, and Music Director of the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestras. Simoncic has worked extensively with orchestras in the Tri-State area as well as the Knoxville Symphony (TN), the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra (WV), the Kinhaven Music School (VT), the Omaha Youth Symphony (NE), the Bohuslav Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic), the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic), the Adygeya Republic National Symphony (Russia), and the Maikop Conservatory Orchestra (Russia). At age six, Simoncic began studying the trumpet and went on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the New England Conservatory. She holds a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University, and received a full scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music where she holds a Professional Studies Diploma in Orchestral Conducting. Simoncic’s teachers include George Hurst, Zdenec Macal, David Gilbert, George Manahan, Victor Yampolsky, Kirk Trevor, Iloh Yang, and David LaMarche. In 2011, Simoncic received the Bruno Walter Scholarship Award to study with Marin Alsop and Gustav Meyer at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California.
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UTAH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Donald Basinger, Director 1st Violin AUBREY WOODS Concertmaster EMILY DAY-SHUMWAY Associate Concertmaster MARCEL BOWMAN KATHERINE KUNZ KATHRYN LANGR NATHAN MUELLER MARTHA THOMPSON PEGGY WHEELWRIGHT 2nd Violin KRISTA UTRILLA Principal JOAN LUNT Associate Principal ANN COX JOHN ENGLUND RUTH ANN GODFREY GAIL PICHA Viola JENNIE OUTRAM Principal MICHAEL PALUMBO Associate Principal PAULA CHO CANDACE WAGNER ELIZABETH WALLACE Cello ELLEN BRIDGER Principal WARREN MUELLER Associate Principal BONNIE FELGER CASSIE OLSON MONIKA ROSBOROUGHBOWMAN
Bass BEN HENDERSON Principal ERIC HANSEN SPENCER JENSEN LOLA PLUMB Flute JANE WADSWORTH Principal SALLY HUMPHREYS JEANNINE GOECKERITZ Oboe SUSAN SWIDNICKI Principal BONNIE SCHROEDER JUSTIN TORRES Clarinet MATTHEW NELSON Principal DARON BRADFORD DAVID FELLER Bassoon BRIAN HICKS Principal CHRISTOPHER EGBERT BRIAN PETERSON Horn LAURENCE LOWE Principal ANITA MILLER STEVE PARK MARY WOOD
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Trumpet LISA VERZELLA Principal ROBERT BROWN SARA MARCHETTI Trombone WILL KIMBALL Principal NEIL HENDRIKSEN STEVEN HUNTER DONN SCHAEFER Tuba MICHAEL MCCAWLEY Principal Timpani DARREN BASTIAN Principal Percussion HEATH WOLF Principal JARED CRAGUN KEN HODGES DON MAIN MICHAEL SAMMONS Harp JANET PETERSON Principal Piano JED MOSS
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THANK YOU The Ballet West Premiere Club levels listed below include the valued friends of Ballet West whose significant gifts make our performances possible.
Members Assoluta Donors $20,000 or more Anonymous Donors Vilija Avizonis and Greg McComas Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Melissa Herbst
Barbara Barrington Jones The Kipper Family Foundation Frederick Q. Lawson John and Marcia Price Family Foundation
Shari and David Quinney Beano Solomon
Mr. C’s Club $5,000-$19,999
Honorary Life Members Willam F. Christensen, Artistic Director (1902-2001) and Florence G. Christensen (1917-2011) The Rickman Family Scott Huntsman Anonymous Donors Audrey R. Ross Charitable Lead Trust Jeanne M. Kimball Petras and Liuda Avizonis Ellen and Chris Rossi Bruce and Sheryl Lefavi Bruce W. Bastian Theodore Schmidt Herbert and Wilma Livsey Berenice J. Bradshaw (1903-1996)* Audra Sorenson Lois Martino Judy Brady and Drew W. Browning George H. and Tamie P. Speciale Dan P. Miller Carol Christ Diane and Sam Stewart John and Andrea Miller Jim and Barbara Clark Teresa Silcox Torrey and Jack Torrey Anthony and Jessica Mirabile DiFiore Family M. Walker and Sue Wallace Nicole and Peter Mouskondis W. Hague* and Sue J. Ellis Brad and Linda Walton Richard and Lois Peterson Erik and Uzo Erlingsson W. Mack and Julia S. Watkins Foundation Brian and Janae Powell Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation Carole Wood and Darrell Hensleigh Clifford S. Reusch, M.D. Ron and Shelley Hansen
Premiere Gold Club Donors $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous Donors Clisto and Suzanne Beaty Carol, Rete and Céline Browning Caitland Photography Rebecca Marriott Champion Cecile and Hal Christiansen Amalia Cochran
Convergence Planning Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation Greg Gardner Wendy Jackson Jóhann Jacobs and David Heuvel Cynthia Lampropoulos
Peter and Catherine Meldrum Jerry and Linda Rowley Margot L. Shott Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom Kevin Voyles Mark and Lori Weisbender Marelynn and Edward Zipser
William and Melissa Connelly Charles and Susan Critchlow Jonathan Crossett and Pascale E. DeRozario Hu Ding Nile Eatmon and Kimberly Hornak Ed and Gayle Farley Deborah B. and Edward Felt Alex Fenech Michael Fife John H. and Joan B. Firmage Karen L. Freed Ralli and George Fuller Marla M. Gault Ann and Rick Gold LeAnne and Craig Gundy John and Ilauna Gurr James Halliday Sandy Haughey Connie Holbrook Mark and Wendi Holland Julie Hopkins Larry and Tina Howard Robert and Dixie Huefner David and Linda Irvine
Gordon Irving Lynn and Thomas Jensen Conrad and Anne Jenson Christina Jepson and Erik Christiansen G. Frank and Pamela Joklik Tim H. Jones Howard A. and Lou Ann B. Jorgensen John Karls Jennefer Kesteloot Carol and Guy Kroesche James R. Kruse and Mary Jo Smith Katherine Labrum Catherine and Matthew Lake Lisa Larriva Jon and Helle LeRette David E. and Helane B. Leta Dennis Marcus Thomas and Mary McCarthey Rachelle McCarthey and Brock VandeKamp Marjorie and Thomas McLaughlin Charlotte Miller Frederick Moreton Sheri P. Morgan Michael Morris
Premiere Club $1,000-$2,499 Anonymous Donation through the Community Foundation of Utah Anonymous Donors Advanced Four Wheel Drive John and Marilyn Alleman Stephen Anderson and Merribeth HabeggerAnderson Delonne Anderson Family Foundation Bené Arnold Carol Baer Daniel and Sheila Barnett Mary Ann Battle The Brent and Bonnie Jean Beesley Foundation Peggy Bergmann Sharon and Michael Bertelsen Mary Bird and Lance Wood J.H. Bogart John Bohnsack and Rebecca Day Ginny Bostrom Jean E. Halliday-Boyce Lee and Florence Bronson E. Lindsay and Carla Carlisle Steven C. Chandler
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THANK YOU Scott and JoAnn Narus Oren and Liz Nelson Linda S. Pembroke David C. Pickett Jeanne Potucek David and Suzanne Razor Mitch and Shannon Rice Richards Brandt Miller Nelson Gary and Joann Rieben Margaret P. Sargent Gayanne Schmid and John Eckert
Pat and Bill Schulze Robert Schumacker Aharon Shulimson and Julie Terry Michael Shuping John Sklute Nancy and Robert Sparrer Diana Major Spencer Sue and Jack Stahl Catherine Stashak Eric and Kimberly Tolman Rick and Chris Veit
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THANK YOU Marvin and Lois Kimball The Kohlburn/Lecointre Family Edward and Debbie Lamb Martha and Harold Lamb, MD Roxanne Christensen Lazzara David E. and Helane B. Leta Katherine Lynch Nancy Melich and Lex Hemphill David and Colleen Merrill Constance Metherell Steven Nickman Joanne Parrish Elodie Payne Ray Pickup Victoria Jane Ream
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Cynthia Hamman Kenneth and Kate Handley Geraldine Hanni Jon & Tami Hansen Peggy A. Norton and Scott W. Hansen R. Robert Harris Pamela Robinson-Harris and Jeff Harris Karen Horne and Michael Rowley Linda Hull Lauren Huntsman Mary Claire Huntsman Emilie Huntsman Olivia Huntsman Stephanie Jackson James Janney Elisa Jenny Joanne and Michael Kaeske Brenda and Mark Kaila Rosemary Kaufman Lawrence and Linda Kelley Joyce Kinkead Marie Lloyd Dr. and Mrs. Ned L. Mangelson Shelley and William Mcclennen Nancy McCormick Eric Mead Virginia Menlove Elia Miller Dr. Michaela S. Mohr David A. and Sheila Hayes Moore Jim and Pat Morgan Kevin Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Willard Nelson Karen Nichols Ralph and Jean Nuismer Serge and Maura Olszanskyj Odette Parfitt
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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
Ballet West is grateful for the following Corporate, Foundation, and Government support:
$100,000 and above George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Barbara Barrington Jones Family Foundation
Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation Questar
Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks Program
Utah State Legislative Funding through the Utah State Office of Education Professional Outreach Program in the Schools
Marriner S. Eccles Foundation Meldrum Foundation Mills Publishing, Inc.
Myriad Genetics Shubert Foundation, Inc. Sorenson Legacy Foundation
Strong Audi Utah Arts Council Zions Bank
The D. Forrest and Gerda M. Greene Foundation Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation New York Choreographic Institute Nicholas & Co. O.C. Tanner
S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Utah Copper Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Jerome Robbins Foundation Salt Lake City Arts Council Semnani Foundation* Simmons Family Foundation
Trolley Square Ventures* W. Mack and Julia S. Watkins Foundation Webb Audio Visual Wells Fargo Williams Zions Bank
C. Comstock Clayton Foundation Delta, KLM, Airfrance, Alitalia Every Blooming Thing* Epic Brewing Goldman Sachs Bank USA Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation Iasis Healthcare
KBYU* Le Croissant Catering Lefavi Wealth Management Larry H. Miller Group The Milton Steele Charitable Fund Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation SelectHealth
Joanne L. Shrontz Family Foundation Union Pacific W. Mack and Julia S. Watkins Foundation Workers Compensation Fund
·Deseret News Publishing Company ·The Joseph Smith Memorial Building Restaurants and Catering ·Deseret Digital Media ·The Lion House ·KSL Broadcasting Group Discovery Gateway* Dorsey & Whitney LLP Glasmann Dudley Foundation The Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Foundation Henry W. and Leslie M. Eskuche Foundation H-11 Digital Forensics High West Whiskey HKS Architects HMG Productions Holland & Hart
Industrial Supply Intermountain Healthcare J. Wong’s Asian Bistro Joe’s Trophies & Gifts* Jones Waldo Kanter Family Foundation Kern River Gas Transmission Company John and Dora Lang Charitable Foundation Lamb’s Grill Landis Aveda Lifestyle Salon Larry H. & Gail Miller Foundation The Leonardo Medical Group Insurance Services Merit Medical Merrick Bank Millcreek Gardens Molding Box Todd Smith on behalf of Fred A. Moreton & Co.
Nebeker Family Foundation Parsons, Behle & Latimer Porsche Design at City Creek PricewaterhouseCoopers Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation Redirect Relationship Marketing The Rose Shop* Rose Brand* Salt Lake City Rotary Foundation Sign*A*Rama Snell & Wilmer Snow, Christensen & Martineau Sam & Diane Stewart Foundation Stoel Rives, LLP Stratification Inc. Talon Printing* Utah Museum of Fine Art* U.S. Bancorp Foundation Utah Welcome Committee*
Cyprus Credit Union Amy Eldredge* Empire Dance Shop, Inc. 5 Wives Vodka Global Travel Network Nebeker Family Foundation
North Shore School of Dance Michael Perez Royal Restrooms Salt Lake Chamber* Jim Santangelo* Strong & Hanni
Summerhays Music The Summit Group* Tenge Law Firm, LLC Vida Tequila
$25,000–$99,999 Emma Eccles Jones Foundation Kipper Family Foundation Janet Q. Lawson Foundation
$10,000–$24,999 American Express American Harlequin Corporation* B.W. Bastian Foundation Lawrence T. Dee and Janet T. Dee Foundation Florence J. Gillmor Foundation Grand America Hotel
$5,000–$9,999 Arthur & Jensen Beaver Creek Foundation Blank Family Foundation Boeing Brio Tuscan Grille R. Harold Burton Foundation Chevron
$1,000–$4,999 AMPCO Parking* The Annex Big-D Construction Botanica Coffee & Flower Blue Iguana* Brown Family Foundation Kenneth P. and Sally Rich Burbidge Foundation CenturyLink Capitol Parking* Bob Crowder – I.T Services Cucina Toscana The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Foundation ·Beneficial Financial Group ·Bonneville International Corporation ·Deseret Book Company ·Deseret Management Corporation
$250–$999 3M A-1 Casters and Equipment, Inc. Bambara Bravo Brio Restaurant Group Chase Associates Vanessa Chang*
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IN MEMORY AND IN HONOR Gifts Made in Honor: In Honor of Vilija Avizonis and Greg McComas Beth McComas Randy McComas In Honor of Greta and Madeleine Ballard, Henry Ashdown Peter Ashdown In Honor of Donald Basinger Joanne Parrish In Honor of Alex Fenech Inger Fenech
In Honor of Jóhann Jacobs and David Heuvel Marlene Montooth In Honor of Tono Lander Martin Leuthauser In Honor of Ingie Lignell Elese Adams In Honor of Nancy Marriott Zions Bank
In Honor of Delilah Mecham Jill Hansen In Honor of Dr. and Mrs. Ondine Morelli Susan H. Morelli In Honor of Elena Kunikova and Ludmilla Morkovina Sara Murawski In Honor of Harriet Ross Elaine Wolbrom
In Honor of Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom Patty Andriga Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Madeleine Plonsker In Honor of Kathleen Ruben Spane Tina Bagley In Honor of Tilton Family Carol Ann Saikhon In Honor of Elisabeth Weldon Eileen Weldon Smith
Gifts Made in Memory: In Memory of Mary Ruth Abbott Bené Arnold In Memory of Paul Alpers Harriet Ross In Memory of Alice Athas Jamie Craft In Memory of Chris Christie Bené Arnold In Memory of Michael P. Heap Gregory Dunnavant
In Memory of Nancy Renstrom Jeanie Pollack Harriet Ross Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom In Memory of Judee Ross Audrey F. Ross Charitable Lead Trust In Memory of Geraldine Humphrey Smith Helen Pearce In Memory of Tracy L. Stapley 6th Medical Logistics Management Center Sheena Barriteau Paul Huntsman Julie Lamar
In Memory of Jack Wood Denise and Michael Bégué Pamela Robinson-Harris and Jeff Harris Jóhann Jacobs and David Heuvel Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom Cristian Smith Jane Wood-Smith Maggie Wright Tesch and Dennis Tesch Jacquie and Kevin Zegan
In Memory of Roger van Frank Anne E. O’Brien and Bob Keeler In Memory of Patricia Zollinger Pamela and Dale Darnell Judy Elting Renee Horns Jamie Kamm Ron Miller Kristie Rowbotham Michele Straube
In Memory of Bill Wood John and Michelle Flynn Charmion Wood
ENCORE SOCIETY We honor and applaud those individuals who have made such a meaningful commitment to the future of Ballet West by including a bequest or other deferred gift for Ballet West in their estate planning. Bené Arnold Berenice J. Bradshaw (1903–1996) Val A. Browning (1895–1994) Kenneth P. Burbidge, Jr. (1930–1998) Dr. Robert H. (1920–2007) and Marianne Harding Burgoyne Kent and Martha DiFiore The Zorka D. Divich Trust Dolores Doré Eccles (1902–1994) Virginia Fackrell Estate (1918–2004) Sid W. Foulger
Dr. Esther S. Gross (1908–2001) and Dr. George D. Gross (1907–2000) Timothy and Stephanie Harpst Melissa A. Herbst (1972-2014) Geoffrey C. Hughes (1919–1991) Jóhann Jacobs and David Heuvel Fleming and Lana Jensen Sara Kaplan Dennis L. Kay Trust Barry L. Keller (1937–2002) Cynthia Lampropoulos Family Foundation
Gaye Herman Marrash Glenn H. and Karen Fugal Peterson Margot Shott Teresa Silcox Torrey Oma W. Wagstaff (1901–2000) Mrs. Glenn Walker Wallace (1898–1988) Grace Jackson (1920–2000) and Gladys Walz (1910–1995) Afton B. Whitbeck (1914–2008) Carole M. Wood and Darrell Hensleigh Marelynn and Edward Zipser
Encore Society membership is open to all individuals who have made an estate provision for Ballet West or a planned or deferred gift. For more information or if you have made a planned gift to Ballet West, please contact us at (801) 869-6919.
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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN DONORS Shari and David Quinney Campaign Chairs
Barbara and James Clark Honorary Chairs
Ballet West is grateful for the generous support of the following foundations, individuals and corporations:
Naming Gift ($6,000,000 and above)
Janet Q. Lawson Foundation
Lead Gifts ($2,000,000 and above)
George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Emma Eccles Jones Foundation
Principal Gifts ($500,000–$1,999,999)
Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation
Major Gifts ($150,000–$499,000)
Lawrence T. Dee & Janet T. Dee Foundation Katherine and Ezekiel Dumke, Jr. Meldrum Foundation Theodore and Elizabeth Schmidt Utah State Legislature
Pace-Setter Gifts ($45,000–$149,000)
Anonymous Donors James G. Adamson* B. W. Bastian Foundation Erik and Uzo Erlingsson Florence Gillmor Foundation Timothy and Stephanie Harpst Katharine Lamb Janet Q. Lawson (1922–2008) Thomas and Mary McCarthey Questar Shari and David Quinney Rocky Mountain Power Joanne L. Shrontz Family Foundation Sue and Walker Wallace Robert I. Wishnick Foundation
Sustaining Gifts ($15,000–$44,999)
Anonymous Donors American Express Charitable Fund Judy Brady and Drew W. Browning Carol Carter Jim and Barbara Clark DiFiore Family Hague and Sue J. Ellis Matthew B. Ellis Foundation Jóhann Jacobs and David Heuvel Robert D. Kent Jr. Trust Dan P. Miller Scott and Sara Nelson Fritz and Barbara Reed
Key Gifts ($10,000–$14,999)
Anonymous Donors Vilija Avizonis and Greg McComas John C. Jarman
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S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation
John and Marcia Price Family Foundation
Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Foundation Seth Olson and Tonia Stefiuk Clifford S. Reusch, M.D. Thomas Parks Richard and Lois Peterson Amberlie Phillips Cornerstone Gifts Scott W. and Nanci O. Pickett ($5,000–$9,999) David and Suzanne Razor Anonymous Donors Dr. Chris Richards Michael and Denise Bégué The Roake Family E. Lindsay and Carla Carlisle Robert and Nancy Schumacker Deborah Dobson and Jonas Kåge Katherine Scott Paul B. Dorius Semnani Foundation Tim and Katherine Henney Michael Shuping Richard Koehn and Sheryl Scott Students of Ballet West Academy David E. and Helane B. Leta Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom Toby and Jeffrey Taylor Teresa Silcox Torrey Norman C. and Barbara L. Tanner Lamont and Carol Tyler Dr. Mina Vaughn Foundation Carole M. Wood and Darrell Hensleigh U.S. Bancorp Foundation W. Mack and Julia Watkins Maysie and Wallace Watts Special Gifts Maggie Wright and Dennis Tesch
($1,000–$4,999)
Anonymous Donors Stephen and Merribeth Habegger-Anderson The Arcolio Family Michael and Jacqueline Bailey David K. Barber Kay and Susan Barrell Frances and Jerome Battle Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bennion Alene Bentley Carolyn and Robert Buma Chase Associates Paul and Linda Child Bruce and Barbara Christensen Sue D. and Thayer S. Christensen Peter Christie and Charles Black James and Geralyn Dreyfous Rex Falkenrath and Amy Paul John H. and Carol W. Firmage III Jodie and Kirk Fisher Robert and Joyce Graham John Hollerbach Scott Huntsman Richard Kielar and Christian Zimmerman Guy and Carol Kroesche Jodi Lippert and Timothy L. Barr LWCommunications Malcolm and Ann MacQuoid Michael Marriott and J. Sanchez Michael Murray and Kathleen McDermott
Supporting Gifts ($500–$999)
Anonymous Donors Steve and Beverly Allnatt Robert Arbogast Deborah and Byron Barkley Bernard Bégué Ginette Bott In Memory of Megan Leigh Brown Mr. and Mrs. Bruce K. Caldwell Bill and Amy Cutting Don and Doris Gale Pamela Robinson-Harris and Jeff Harris Jerald D. and Anne E. Holyoak Carol and Edward Hunter McNeil Engineering & Land Surveying, L.C. Brian and Janae Powell Patsy and Gregory Reece Harry and Lisa Rosenthal Fred and Fran Schwab Mitchell Selznick Sarah and Rich West Reba Ann Wilcox
Friends of the Campaign Gifts ($1–$499) Anonymous Donors Kathy and Wayne Adams Hans and Martha Ahrens
Bené Arnold Nancy Blaney Michael Bearden Brent and Elita Christensen Kate C. Crews Jonathan Crossett and Pascale E. DeRozario Michael Andrew Currey and Calvin W. Kitten Steven W. Davis Gregory Dennison Nancy Farley Kristin Hakala and Tong Wang Jolie and Brad Hardy Tim and Stephanie Harpst Alison Harvey Neil and June Henderson Susan and Richard Holland Christina M. Jepson Gloria Johnson Devin Danielle Larsen and Robin G. Larsen Jason Linsley Braden Lockwood Archer and Ellen Martin Barbara Neilson Aaron J. Orlowski Beatrice C. Parker Greg R. Presnell Karlie, Karen, Charlie Primich Sophia Priolo Mary and Gary Purk Nancy Stewart Ramsdell Marissa Rejali Jennifer L. Robinson Jan and Shahab Saeed Thomas Sawyer Jane Scott Nicholas Scott Ben Selznick Zack Selznick Dennis and Annabelle Shrieve Tani Smihula Mary Clayton Smith Steven W. and Sharon S. Snarr Heather Thackeray Lynda Tobin David Tundermann Sandra D. Weinstock G. W. Buzz and Kelly Welch
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BALLET WEST BOARDS FOUNDERS Mrs. John M. Wallace Founder (1898-1988)
Willam F. Christensen Artistic Founder (1902-2001)
GOVERNING BOARD
Scott Altman* Adam Sklute* Executive Director Artistic Director Victor S. Rickman* Ron R. Hansen* Brian E. Powell* Chair Vice Chair Chair Elect
Scott M. Huntsman* Treasurer
Barbara Clark* Secretary
Pete Ashdown Dr. Vilija Avizonis* Frances Battle Alene Bentley Sharon M. Bertelsen Senator Curtis Bramble David Green Wendy Jackson* Christina M. Jepson Barbara Barrington Jones Brenda Kaila Catherine Parrish Lake Edward Lamb Sheryl R. Lefavi
Lois L. Martino Charlotte L. Miller John C. Miller* Anthony F. Mirabile* Michael Morris David C. Pickett Jeanne Potucek* David Quinney, III Shari Quinney* Margot Shott Michael Shuping Audra Sorenson Cindy Strong Teresa Silcox Torrey
Shahab Saeed* Immediate Past Chair David W. Tundermann Stanley D. VanderToolen Mary Jane Galvin-Wagg Debra Washburn Julia Watkins Sarah West Michelle Wolfenbarger Artist Liaisons Christopher Anderson Christiana Bennett *Executive Committee
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Dan P. Miller, President Carol Browning Carol Carter Nola J. Chase
Carol Christ Dr. Erik Erlingsson Barbara Kipper Bruce Marks
Peter D. Meldrum Nicole Mouskondis M. Walker Wallace
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP BOARD Carol Kroesche, President Carol Baer
William Connelly Nile Eatmon Tami Hansen
Julie Hopkins Tim H. Jones Diana Major Spencer
TRUSTEE EMERITI Kenneth P. Burbidge, Jr. (1930-1998) Carol Carter Ronny L. Cutshall Donald B. Holbrook (1925-2005)
William N. Jones Howard A. Jorgensen Richard J. Kieffer David Leta Peter D. Meldrum Dan P. Miller
Sara J. Nelson Fredric D. Reed Shahab Saeed Harold J. Steele (1911-2005) Stephen D. Swindle, Esq.
For more information on Board Membership, contact Scott Altman, Executive Director at 801-869-6905.
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