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WITH SERENADE AND WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR

NOV 8–16 2024

PRINCIPAL ARTISTS AMY POTTER, KATLYN ADDISON, & TYLER GUM | PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

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THE COMPANY

Adam Sklute ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

THE WILLAM CHRISTENSEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHAIR SPONSORED BY PEGGY BERGMANN

Michael Scolamiero EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

THE ELIZABETH SOLOMON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHAIR

PRINCIPALS

Emily Adams, Katlyn Addison, Hadriel Diniz, Adrian Fry, Tyler Gum, Jenna Rae Herrera, David Huffmire, Amy Potter, Jordan Veit

SOLOISTS

Kristina Pool, Victoria Vassos

DEMI-SOLOISTS

Dominic Ballard, Lillian Casscells, Nicole Fannéy, Vinicius Lima, Jake Preece, Rylee Ann Rogers

ARTISTS

Alexis Bull, Jazz Khai Bynum, Kai Casperson, Kye Cooley, Isabella Corridon, Amelia Dencker, Anderson Duhan, Taylor Fikes, Maren Florence, Robert Fowler, Mikayla Gyfteas, Jacob Hancock, James Jobson-Larkin, Schuyler Lian, Joseph Lynch, William Lynch, Jonas Malinka-Thompson, Lexi McCloud, Anisa Sinteral, Tatiana Stevenson, Loren Walton, Claire Wilson

BALLET WEST II

Olivia Book, Jaya Dhand, Rémy Gray, Adrian Fite, Lund Fuller, Victor Galeana, Ava Gray, Callie Herbert, Téa Hinchley, Mirin Hirano, Andre McGregor II, Anna Murray, Sophia Nanni, Arif Toleugazin

Pamela Robinson-Harris PRINCIPAL REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Bruce Caldwell REHEARSAL DIRECTOR AND ARCHIVIST

Michael McCulloch PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Nicholas Maughan PRINCIPAL COMPANY PIANIST

ARTISTIC STAFF

Jared Oaks MUSIC DIRECTOR

Jane Victorine Wood INTERIM PRINCIPAL REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Jason Hadley DIRECTOR OF COSTUME PRODUCTION

Michele Gifford ASSISTANT REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Reuben Lehr

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS MANAGER AND ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Michael Andrew Currey DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

Calvin Kitten DIRECTOR OF BALLET WEST II/ REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Liz Wiand STAGE MANAGER AND PRODUCTION OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Courtney Hellebuyck STUDENT REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

WILLAM CHRISTENSEN, CO-FOUNDER & FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

GLENN WALKER WALLACE, CO-FOUNDER

DEMI-SOLOISTS RYLEE ANN ROGERS AND JAKE PREECE REHEARSING WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR | PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

Board of Directors

OFFICERS:

Chair

Shari H. Quinney*

Vice Chair

Sarah Eccles Taylor*

Ballet Instructor and Founder Turning Pointe

Treasurer

Scott M. Huntsman* CEO

Martin Garage Doors

Secretary

Rachele McCarthey, M.D.*

Psychiatrist University of Utah Department of Psychiatry

Artistic Director

Adam Sklute* Ballet West

Executive Director

Michael Scolamiero* Ballet West

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT LARGE:

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Mike Black* Owner/President Common Law PC

Matthew Cardon-Bystry

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J. Chase Dreyfous, Jr.*

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University of Utah

Marc A. Fuller

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Samantha Topping Gellert

Courtney Miller Hawks

Stephanie Harpst Retired, Wells Fargo

Kimberly Heglar Retired, Microsoft

George W. Henry Jr. Retired Teacher Teacher Intervention Specialist, Granite School District

Heidi L. Huntsman

Retired, Venture Capital Community Volunteer

Ryan Kelly Chief Communications Officer, Recursion

Athelia Woolley LeSueur

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Kristin Allred Stockham

Community Volunteer

Julia Watkins Community Volunteer

EMERITUS BOARD:

Dr. Viljia Avizonis

Frances Battle

Carol Carter

Dr. Kent DiFiore

Jennifer Horne-Huntsman

Willis McCree

Dan Miller

John Miller

Amanda Simmons

Elizabeth (Beano) Solomon

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Willard Dere

Julie Hopkins

Barbara Levy Kipper

Ellen Rossi

The Honorable Jenny

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The Honorable Jenny Wilson

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About Ballet West

From Balanchine to Bournonville, Petipa to Tharp, Ballet West boasts a rich and varied repertoire, elegant and versatile artists, and an American style and legacy that is as dynamic, expansive, and as unexpected as the Rocky Mountain region it represents. From its humble beginnings in 1963 as the only professional ballet company between Chicago and the West Coast, Ballet West has grown into one of America’s leading ballet companies. For 60 years, the Salt Lake City-based Company has entertained and excited audiences in Utah and worldwide by presenting the great classical story ballets, including America’s first and longest-running version of The Nutcracker, revivals of rarelyseen historical masterpieces, works by some of the world’s most renowned artists, and new cutting-edge creations by emerging choreographers. The Company also regularly tours both nationally and internationally.

Ballet West was established in Salt Lake City by co-founders Willam F. Christensen, often called the “Godfather of American ballet,” and Utah’s “First Lady of the Arts,” Glenn Walker Wallace. In 1951, Christensen established the first ballet department in an American university at The University of Utah. Over time, this program grew into the Utah Civic Ballet, Ballet West’s first incarnation. Prior to that, along with his brothers, Lew and Harold, Christensen made history by establishing the oldest full-ballet company in the western United States, the San Francisco Ballet.

Since its inception, Ballet West has had five artistic directors, who have each helped build the Company’s unique and expansive profile – its founder, Willam Christensen, Bruce Marks, John Hart CBE, Jonas Kåge, and for the past 17 years, Adam Sklute, who has overseen the artistic product for the longest sustained growth of the Company since its founding. Ballet West continues to grow and evolve with 39 company members, 14 second company members, a thriving Academy, and one of the world’s largest ballet-based Education and Outreach programs, reaching over 140,000 children and adults throughout Utah and the Intermountain Region every year.

The Frederick Q. Lawson Ballet West (BW) Academy builds future ballet and dance artists and audiences by providing training in classical ballet, flamenco, character, contemporary, hip-hop, jazz, and theatrical dance training. The BW Academy has nearly 1,000 students between its four campuses - Salt Lake City, Trolley Corners, Park City, and Utah County. With newlyrenovated student housing, the BW Academy is home to local, national, and international ballet students, with more than 50% of BW Academy students joining Ballet West.

With this eclectic and ever-expanding outlook, Ballet West is truly an American pioneer in dance. By honoring the history and traditions of our great artform, while constantly moving forward with new and untried concepts, we continue to keep ballet in Utah and the world alive and thriving into the future.

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SERENADE

Choreography: George Balanchine

Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra

Music Director: Jared Oaks

Intermission

WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR

Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon

Music: Ezio Bosso after Vivaldi

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra

Conducted by Jared Oaks

Intermission

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky

Music: Modest Mussorgsky

Solo Piano: Dr. Vera Oussetskaia-Watanabe

The performance lasts approximately 2 hours and 19 minutes with two intermissions

PRINCIPAL ARTIST EMILY ADAMS WITH ARTISTS OF BALLET WEST | PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

From the Artistic Director

Welcome to our Fall 2024 repertory program entitled Picture at an Exhibition. A program that is all about the art of music, dance, and the great unifying power art has. Art gives meaning to our lives. It allows us to have a deeper understanding of our own feelings and gain a deeper understanding of others. Art binds us as a society, bringing us together as a community to share a broad spectrum of emotions.

Taking my cue from the concept of the score for our program’s title ballet, I conceived of this program as a visit through a gallery of some of the greatest abstract or expressionistic dance art of our time. As we move from exhibit to exhibit – or more accurately from ballet to ballet – my hope is that you are transported and taken on your own personal journey. These masterpieces certainly do that for me. Each of these ballets is distinct, with each one making me think and feel about our world and beyond in unique and profound ways.

Opening with George Balanchine’s windswept Serenade, we enter a moonlit realm that propels us along though Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. This was the first ballet Balanchine choreographed in America. He created it in 1934 on the students of his newly formed School of American Ballet. As legend has it, he never had the same number of dancers in rehearsal at the same time and subsequently, the ballet’s whole structure, development, and plotless drama are built on who he had to work with in the moment. These challenges actually are the key to its genius. The breathtaking opening tableau is a terrific example of Balanchine’s ingenuity. With only seventeen dancers in attendance the day he started, he creates a fascinating pattern that appears perfectly geometrical as the curtain rises but as a pattern for classical ballet, it was groundbreaking with its unconventional use of an odd number to create symmetry. Balanchine also incorporated any mishap that took place during the rehearsals. At one point a woman fell down, so he kept it in the work. At another point, a woman ran in late and again, he kept it in.

Many years later, after the ballet was well established, a ballerina’s hair came undone in rehearsal and he modified his creation to incorporate that as well to stunning effect. Ultimately, Balanchine’s great attention to the music is what guides this sublime dance. “See the Music” is an adage often connected to Balanchine and Serenade exemplifies this perfectly. He follows Tchaikovsky’s cues and creates a “story less” story with one thoughtful modification to the score; Balanchine switches the last movement allegro finale ‘Tema russo” with the originally written third movement “Elegie,”thus closing this heart melting work with a mournful and yearning sense of wonder for what the future might bring. This year marks the 90th anniversary of its creation and it appears as fresh and inventive now as when it first premiered. Another fun fact is that Serenade was part of the program when Ballet West performed for the first time on the Capitol Theater Stage in 1979.

Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour premiered at the San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival in 2008. I was at that premiere and fell in love with this evocative,

From the Artistic Director

piquant, and nuanced suite of dances to the music of Ezio Bosso. Composer Bosso based his contemporary score on the music of Antonio Vivaldi and choreographer Wheeldon and in turn, sensitively uses the scores’ many moods to present us with a tapestry of relationships between the cast. Structured around three principal couples and an ensemble of four women and four men, each section flows forth with a different energy – sometimes playful and sly, sometimes driving with pulsating energy. At times we feel we are in dream, other times romantically looking out over vast fields and mountains. Wheeldon develops theme steps and combinations that are echoed from one cast member to another, but his invention constantly surprises us with unexpected movements and changes of direction, which makes this beautiful ballet both classic and new. As the ballet races to a dynamic conclusion, we are left with a sense of excitement and anticipation and to me, a feeling that all is good in the world. Christopher Wheeldon is one of the world’s great living choreographers who is well known for his Tony award winning choreography for An American in Paris and MJ the Musical. His work for classical ballet is even more prolific, ranging from intimate gems like Within the Golden Hour to extravagant new full length story ballets. This marks the first time Ballet West presents a work by Wheeldon.

We close this ‘Gallery stroll” with the Ballet West premiere of Ukrainian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. A leading figure in the world of dance today, Ratmansky has been the Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Ballet and Artist in Residence at both The New York City Ballet and The American Ballet Theater. Known both for his impeccably researched historical reconstructions of well-known classics and for his own new ballet creations, his great knowledge of the art, history, and dance color even his most unconventional contemporary works. Ratmansky choreographed Pictures at an Exhibition on the New York City Ballet in 2014 and I saw it there not long after its premiere. He uses Modest Mussorgsky’s well-loved 1874 virtuoso piano suite of the same name, and his ballet reflects both the challenging technical demands of the music along with its built-in narrative and drama. Mussorgsky wrote this ten-movement work as a tribute to his friend, artist, designer, and architect Victor Hartmann who had died suddenly. Each movement is named after a different painting by Hartmann connected by a linking recognizable “promenade” theme which returns throughout as we “walk” from painting to painting. The titles of the movements range from the spooky and magical “The Gnome,” the silly “Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens,” the deep, introspective “The Catacombs,” and finally the grand, elegant and almost

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Since 2007, Adam Sklute has expanded Ballet West’s outlook, repertoire, and visibility with exciting Company and world premieres, increased touring, heightened public exposure, and greater focus on the Ballet West Academy. He began his career with The Joffrey Ballet, rising through the ranks from dancer to Associate Director. His stewardship of Ballet West has been marked by both financial growth and elevated artistry, and was the subject of The CW Network’s docu-drama, Breaking Pointe, which aired for two seasons. From September 2016 to October 2017, Sklute took on the dual position of CEO and Artistic Director, overseeing both administrative and artistic operations of Ballet West. An internationally sought-after teacher and adjudicator, Sklute has received numerous awards, including Utah’s Enlightened 50 (2014), The Bronze Minuteman Award for Outstanding Service to Utah and The Nation (2015), and Utah Diversity Connection’s Business Award for outstanding commitment to diversity initiatives. Most recently, Sklute was included in Deseret Magazine’s 25 Changemakers of the West for his efforts to build greater equity and inclusion in classical ballet.

From the Executive Director

On the heels of the premiere of Jekyll & Hyde, our Pictures at an Exhibition program offers audiences yet another program of new work, this time featuring two of the most highly acclaimed, living choreographers of our time: Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon. Having worked with both gentlemen throughout my career, I am quite excited to have their choreographic prowess experienced by Utah audiences, which are not only sophisticated in their tastes but also eager to be challenged by repertoire not yet presented in our state.

As a huge fan of the work of George Balanchine, I can never get enough of Serenade, one of his earliest works and one that continues to mesmerize audiences. Sublime comes to mind when I think of Serenade, which is a perfect fusion of Tchaikovsky’s lush score and movement that was groundbreaking at the time. Within the Golden Hour, Ballet West’s first Wheeldon work in the repertory, suits our dancers beautifully, as if Mr. Wheeldon had them in mind rather than the amazing dancers of San Francisco Ballet. As Mr. Ratmansky’s fourth work for New York City Ballet, Pictures at an Exhibition uses Moussorgsky’s piano score to create moods that shift with the watercolors that frame the stage. A complicated and difficult ballet to dance, Pictures highlights the versatility of our dancers and their ability to learn new and challenging movement quickly.

Looking ahead, December marks the 80th anniversary of Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker, America’s first and longest running Nutcracker. Having recently been designated as Utah’s first Living Historic Landmark by the State of Utah, this timeless classic continues to enchant families and audiences of all ages and is Utah’s most iconic holiday event. Since the 2023 and 2024 runs of The Nutcracker broke sales records, you are encouraged to order your tickets early for the best seats.

We say it often, but never enough: thank you for being with us today and for supporting Ballet West. As one of America’s leading ballet companies, your support has enabled us to present great art on stage and important work in the community for more than 60 years. Ballet West’s legacy goes beyond the intermountain region, extending throughout the United States and the world. You are an important role in nurturing this company from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminent position among dance companies worldwide, and for that we will always be grateful.

Warm regards,

Michael Scolamiero Executive Director

Michael Scolamiero joined Ballet West after an extensive international search led by Michael Kaiser, President Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Since that time, Scolamiero has played a key role in transforming the organization’s financial health, eliminating operating deficits and building a cash reserve. With a strong balance sheet, Ballet West no longer requires external financing to meet cash needs and is growing its endowment. Under his direction, Ballet West has purchased and operates residential housing in downtown Salt Lake City for students at the Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy.

BRUCE W. BASTIAN

Ballet West is honored to dedicate this series to the memory of Bruce W. Bastian, an ardent and longstanding supporter of Ballet West and the arts in Utah, as well as many humanitarian causes. Bruce passed away in June from complications associated with pulmonary fibrosis, a disease he battled valiantly for several years.

Born in Twin Falls, Idaho to Arlon and Uma Bastian, Bruce was one of six children. After completing a mission to Italy, Bruce attended Brigham Young University where his love of music led him to major in Music Education. He then went on to earn an MA in Computer Science from BYU. With Alan Ashton, his computer instructor at BYU, the two innovators introduced a word processing production they had created for the emerging personal computer industry. The product was eventually named WordPerfect, and the company grew rapidly under Bruce and Alan’s leadership. After being acquired by Novell, Bruce stepped away from his position as Chairman of WordPerfect. He continued to call Utah his home but spent several years at his flat in London and later spent many months of the year in Palm Springs, California.

Bruce cared deeply about people, placing great value on human dignity, civility, individuality, and compassion. An effective communicator and nature lover, Bruce was often called upon to be a resounding voice on behalf of important causes dear to him, including equal rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community, humanitarian aid, and meaningful philanthropy. Furthermore, he had an infinity for the arts. He was credited with transforming the music program at the University of Utah and was a devoted contributor to Ballet West, Utah Symphony, Kingsbury Hall, Plan B Theater, Utah Valley University’s Bastian Theater, and many others. Bruce’s enormous generosity to Ballet West was never more evident than the sizeable gift he made in 1998 to create new costumes for Swan Lake.

Shari H. Quinney, Ballet West’s Chair, remembers Bruce fondly:

“Beyond being a technology pioneer and innovator of our times, very few people in recent decades were as instrumental in philanthropy and advancing the course of human rights. Thank you, Bruce, for your incredible contributions to our lives. We love you and will always miss you.”

Bruce is survived by his husband, Clint Ford, his four sons, Rick, Darren, Jeff, and Robbie, along with their families. He was a devoted husband, father, and friend, known for his warmth, generosity, and unwavering love for his family and friends.

Bruce’s strength, wisdom, and kind spirit touched the lives of many, and he will be deeply missed by all who knew him.

Casting SERENADE

Choreography: George Balanchine

Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Lighting Design: Mark Stanley

Costume Design: Karinska

Stager: Michele Gifford

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra Conducted by Music Director: Jared Oaks

Guest Conductor: Brian Pappal (Nov. 16 MAT)

Set to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, this sweeping ballet was the first work created by Balanchine in America. It was originally created in 1934 as an exercise for the newly formed School of American Ballet. Serenade has since gone into the repertoire of companies around the world. Attendance was sporadic at those first rehearsals, so Balanchine, undaunted, made due with whomever he has in the moment and he incorporated random accidents such as a ballerina falling, a dancer arriving late and someone’s hair coming undone in to the final product, creating a ballet of exhilarating movement, lush musicality, and moving drama without telling an actual story.

World Premiere: March 1, 1935, School of American Ballet, Adelphi Theater, New York Utah Premiere: May 1964, Utah Civic Ballet, Salt Lake City, Utah Ballet West Premiere: April 13, 1979, Ballet West, Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah

11/8, 11/14, 11/16 EVE

Emily Adams, Katlyn Addison, Victoria Vassos Adrian Fry, Dominic Ballard

Jazz Khai Bynum, Isabella Corridon, Claire Wilson, Kristina Pool

Olivia Book, Alexis Bull, Lillian Casscells, Kye Cooley, Jaya Dhand, Nicole Fannéy, Taylor Fikes, Mikayla Gyfteas, Tea Hinchley, Schuyler Lian, Lexi McCloud, Anisa Sinteral, Tatiana Stevenson

Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, Joseph Lynch, Loren Walton

11/9 EVE, 11/16 MAT

Dominic Ballard, Amy Potter, Rylee Rogers Anisa Sinteral, Jordan Veit

Jazz Khai Bynum, Isabella Corridon, Claire Wilson, Kristina Pool

Olivia Book, Alexis Bull, Lillian Casscells, Kye Cooley, Jaya Dhand, Nicole Fannéy, Taylor Fikes, Mikayla Gyfteas, Tea Hinchley, Schuyler Lian, Lexi McCloud, Tatiana Stevenson, Victoria Vassos

Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, Joseph Lynch, Loren Walton

ARTISTS OF BALLET WEST REHEARSING SERENADE | PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

Casting

WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR

Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon

Music: Ezio Bosso after Vivaldi

Stager: Michele Gifford

Lighting Design: James Ingalls

Lighting Recreation: Mark Stanley

Costume Design: Martin Pakledinaz

Within the Golden Hour costumes courtesy of San Francisco Ballet

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra Conducted by Music Director: Jared Oaks

Christopher Wheeldon created Within the Golden Hour for San Francisco Ballet in 2008, as part of their New Works Festival in celebration of the company’s 75th anniversary. Italian minimalist composer Ezio Bosso created the original score for strings, incorporating music by Vivaldi. It was first performed by The Royal Ballet in 2016. With three central pas de deux, the ballet also exhibits Wheeldon’s characteristic complex handling of ensembles, in the process creating intricate lattice works that shift and mutate in this reflection on the beauty of movement.

World Premiere: April 22, 2008, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House

Utah Premiere: Nov. 8, 2024, Capitol Theater, Salt Lake City, Utah

11/8/11/14, 11/16

EVE

Lexi McCloud & David Huffmire

Victoria Vassos & Dominic Ballard

Amy Potter & Jordan Veit

Alexis Bull, Kye Cooley, Nicole Fannéy, Rylee Ann Rogers

Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, Jake Preece, Loren Walton

11/9 EVE, 11/16

MAT

Katlyn Addison & Adrian Fry

Lillian Casscells & Jake Preece

Emily Adams & Joseph Lynch

Isabella Corridon, Mikayla Gyfteas, Kristina Pool, Claire Wilson

Kai Casperson, Jacob Hancock, Vinicius Lima, Jonas Malinka-Thompson

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Casting r PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky

Music: Modest Mussorgsky

Lighting Design: Mark Stanley

Costume Design: Adeline André

Projections Design: Wendall Harrington

Projections Programming: Paul Vershbow

Stager: Amar Ramasar

Solo Piano: Dr. Vera Oussetskaia-Watanabe

Created for The New York City Ballet during the fall of 2014, Pictures at an Exhibition was Alexei Ratmansky’s fourth work for the Company. Using Modest Mussorgsky’s famed piano score, Pictures at an Exhibition, the ballet includes lighting design by Mark Stanley and projections of Wassily Kandinsky’s Color Study Squares with Concentric Circles, designed by Wendall K. Harrington. The 10 dancers are costumed in designs by fashion designer Adeline Andre, a frequent collaborator of Ratmansky.

World Premiere: Oct. 3, 2014, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater Utah Premiere: Nov. 8, 2024, Capitol Theater, Salt Lake City, Utah

11/8, 11/14, 11/16 EVE

Amy Potter & Adrian Fry

Katlyn Addison & David Huffmire

Lexi McCloud & Jordan Veit

Lillian Casscells & Tyler Gum

Nicole Fannéy & Jake Preece

11/9 EVE, 11/16 MAT

Emily Adams & Joseph Lynch

Rylee Ann Rogers & Loren Walton

Kristina Pool & Vinicius Lima

Lillian Casscells & Tyler Gum

Nicole Fannéy & Jake Preece

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overwhelming “The Heroes Gate at Kiev. Ratmansky uses the title of each movement as a launching pad to explore the score and its narrative in associative ways, imbuing each section with his own take on the music. Similarly, to keep the work in a more abstract world, while honoring Mussorgsky’s narrative, Ratmansky uses Wassily Kandinsky’s 1913 painting Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles as both the backdrop and the inspiration for designer Adeline Andre’s costumes. Over the last couple of year’s this ballet has taken on a deeper more profound meaning and its final tableau in “The Heroes Gate of Kiev” poignantly leaves us with a breathless sense of hope for the Ukraine.

This is also the first work of Alexei Ratmansky’s that Ballet West has ever performed and it is an honor that he has entrusted us with this demanding and powerful ballet that was created on the New York City Ballet’s top Principal Artists. It is also a great honor that he came out personally to coach the Ballet West dancers and share his extensive knowledge with them.

Moving from our full length of Jekyll & Hyde, immediately into this challenging repertory program and soon straight into the 80th Anniversary production of our founder Mr. C’s The Nutcracker is not easy for our company but it is enlivening, exciting, and inspiring for us. We hope you enjoy our dancers' abilities as artists, athletes, creators. We hope that you enjoy it all!

Adam Sklute Artistic Director Ballet West

Ballet West Orchestra

Jared Oaks

MUSIC DIRECTOR

1st Violin

Aubrey Woods Concertmaster

Emily Day-Shumway Associate Concertmaster

Kathy Langr

Marcel Bowman

Donni Evans

Shenea Anderson

Melissa Draper

Melissa Combe

Amy Oswald

Seretta Hart ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

2nd Violin

David Price Acting Principal

Rachel Karr

Ann Cox

Kasia Sokol-Borup

Micah Fleming

Rebekah Blackner

Brecklyn Ferrin

Viola

Sunny Johnson Principal

Candace Wagner

Mallory Todd

Jack Johnson

Andrea Ashdown

Tally Turner

Music

Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Within the Golden Hour

I. The sky seen from the moon

II. Le Notti…

III. Dance 12. On Thunder

IV. Dance 3. On the Tree

V. Dance 14. Worried

VI. Vivaldi: Andante from Violin Concerto in B-flat Major, RV 583

VII. I was born a child (African Skies)

Ezio Bosso (1971-2020) and Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Nicholas Maughan ASSISTANT PERSONNEL MANAGER

Cello

Lauren Posey Principal

Cassie Olson Associate Principal

Robin Dunn

Megan Richards

Ambrynn Bowman

Bass

Matthew Shumway Principal

Lola Maxham

Liz Lambson

Ballet West Orchestra

JARED OAKS

Music Director

Jared Oaks, one of the leading young ballet conductors in the United States, is Music Director of Ballet West. Since joining the company in 2008, Jared has maintained a rigorous conducting schedule, in addition to playing for rehearsals and classes. He has conducted performances for Houston Ballet and The Sarasota Ballet, and he has worked with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, among others.

Jared’s numerous compositions include an oratorio about Joan of Arc, with poems by Suzanne Lundquist, and chamber ballets for Ballet West, Charlotte Ballet, and Mid-Columbia Ballet. Jared is also a fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and cofounder of the Composer Discovery Initiative.

AUBREY WOODS Concertmaster

Aubrey Woods’ rise as a professional violinist vividly demonstrates the versatility that is the sine qua non for twentyfirst century musicians. Her artistic leadership and excellence as concertmaster for Ballet West are consistently on display at the Capitol, Rose Wagner, and Eccles theatres in Salt Lake City. She frequently performs with the Utah Symphony Orchestra. She appeared for several years with the Orchestra at Temple Square in weekly worldwide broadcasts and on recordings with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and notable soloists, including Bryn Terfel and Renée Fleming. Aubrey is equally in demand as a studio recording artist for movies, television, and in backing tracks for many popular artists.

Her performances as a chamber musician include appearances with NOVA, Intermezzo, the Park City Chamber Music Series and, on the Baroque violin, with New York Baroque Incorporated, the Sebastians, and Musica Angelica. She may often be heard in company with her husband, Alexander Woods, as the duo Woodsmith. In her free time, Aubrey loves making sourdough bread and spending time with her husband and their five kids.

Ballet West Orchestra

DR. VERA OUSSETSKAIA-WATANABE Pianist

Dr. Vera Oussetskaia-Watanabe is the co-founder and piano faculty at the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City. GMS is a leading pre-college music program in the country serving over 500 students with about 50 faculty members. A graduate of the Ural Mussorgsky Conservatory in Russia, her performance career has taken her through Russia and United States. Also a professional arranger, she has written widely performed transcriptions of hymns, and works ranging from Piazzolla to Albinoni.

Dr. Watanabe’s students have received important awards at national /international competitions and been accepted to top conservatories and colleges including Juilliard, New England, Peabody, Cleveland, Stanford, Berklee and Rice. Dr. Watanabe has collaborated with Ballet West in the production of Rubies and considers working alongside Adam Sklute, Jared Oaks and dancers as her dream job.

BRIAN PAPPAL

Guest Conductor

Conductor Brian Pappal is delighted to make his debut with Ballet West this season. Since relocating to Utah from the East Coast in 2021, he has swiftly established himself as a versatile and dynamic musical force in the Mountain West. Brian serves as the Conductor and Music Director of the Wasatch Symphony and the Mapleton Chorale. He is also a staff pianist at the University of Utah’s Marriott School of Dance and Ballet West, and previously held the position of pianist at Carolina Ballet.

As a jazz and collaborative pianist, Brian has performed with prominent soloists and orchestral musicians, big bands, jazz chamber ensembles, and has contributed to multiple albums. His compositions and arrangements have received international acclaim, being featured on television and radio around the US. For 12 years, he was the music director and organist for two prominent Protestant churches in the Eastern United States.

Brian holds music degrees from Duquesne University and Brigham Young University.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

Choreographer, Serenade

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 their productions introduced by the company since its inception. An authoritative catalogue of his works lists 425 pieces created by Balanchine in his lifetime. Balanchine’s style has been described as neoclassic. A gifted musician himself, his response to 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.

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON

Choreographer, Within the Golden Hour

Christopher Wheeldon, OBE (Director & Choreographer) trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 1991. In 1993, he joined New York City Ballet and was promoted to Soloist in 1998. He was named NYCB’s first Resident Choreographer in July 2001. Since then, Wheeldon has created and staged productions for many of the world’s major ballet companies: San Francisco Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, and Hamburg Ballet among others.

Wheeldon created a special excerpt for the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, and in April 2016, he was the Artistic Director for the Fashion Forward exhibition in Paris at La Musee Arts et Decoratif. In 2014, Wheeldon directed and choreographed the Broadway musical version of An American in Paris, which had productions in Paris, New York, and London and has toured extensively through America, China, Japan and Australia. Most recently, he directed and choreographed MJ The Musical, which opened on Broadway in February 2022, winning four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography. It is also currently in London’s West End, touring throughout America, and is soon to open in Hamburg in December 2024.

PHOTO BY ROSE EICHENBAUM

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Among Wheeldon’s other awards are another Tony Award for Best Choreography for An American in Paris, two Tony Nominations for Best Director, an Outer Critics Award for Best Choreography and Direction for An American in Paris, the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, the American Choreography Award, the Dance Magazine Award, South Bank Show Award, multiple London Critics’ Circle Awards, and the Léonide Massine Prize for new choreography. Wheeldon’s productions of Cinderella and The Winter’s Tale received the Benois de la Danse, and he is an Olivier Award winner for his ballets Aeternum for The Royal Ballet and Polyphonia for Morphoses.

ALEXEI RATMANSKY

Choreographer, Pictures at an Exhibition

Born in St. Petersburg, Alexei Ratmansky trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. He was a principal dancer with the Ukrainian National Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Royal Danish Ballet. As a choreographer, Ratmansky has created ballets for Dutch National Ballet, Kirov Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and the State Ballet of Georgia. His 1998 work, Dreams of Japan, earned a prestigious Golden Mask Award by the Theatre Union of Russia.

In 2003, Mr. Ratmansky was invited to mount a full-length ballet, The Bright Stream, at the Bolshoi Theatre, a production which would win for him the appointment of Bolshoi Theatre Artistic Director in 2004. For the Bolshoi Ballet, he also choreographed full-length productions of The Bolt (2005) and re-staged Le Corsaire (2007) and the Soviet-era Flames of Paris (2008). Under Ratmansky’s direction, the Bolshoi Ballet was named “Best Foreign Company” in 2005 and 2007 by The Critics’ Circle in London, and he received a Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for The Bright Stream.

In 2005, Ratmansky was awarded the Benois de la Danse prize for his choreography of Anna Karenina for Royal Danish Ballet, and in 2007, he won a Golden Mask Award for Best Choreographer for his production of Jeu de Cartes for the Bolshoi Ballet. In 2009, Alexei Ratmansky became the American Ballet Theatre Artist in Residence and in 2023, became Artist in Residence at the New York City Ballet.

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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Composer, Serenade

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) studied at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, where George Balanchine later studied piano in addition to his studies in dance. Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular and influential of all Romantic composers. His work is expressive, melodic, and grand in scale, with rich orchestrations. His output was prodigious and included chamber works, symphonies, and concerti for various instruments, as well as operas and works for the piano. His creations for ballet, composed in close partnership with Marius Petipa, include Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty.

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EZIO BOSSO

Composition, after Vivaldi, Within the Golden Hour Conductor, composer, double bass player and ‘pianist when necessary’ as he loved to refer to himself, Ezio Bosso was born in Turin on September 13, 1971. Winner of significant awards, such as Green Room Award in Australia (so far he is the only non-Australian to receive the accolade) and the Syracuse New York Award in the USA, Boss’s music has been commissioned and indeed is still in use by the most important world opera institutions such as Wiener Stadtoper, Royal Opera House, Sidney Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Theatre du Chatelet, San Francisco Ballet o Bolsoj Theater, by prestigious choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon, Edwaard Lliang and Rafael Bonchela, and by famous theatre directors such as James Thierrée or film directors such as Gabriele Salvatores, for whom he composed the soundtracks of “I’m not scared” (2003), “Quo Vadis Baby?” (2005) and “The Invisible Boy” (2014).

MODEST MUSSORGSKY

Composer, Pictures at an Exhibition

Born in Karevo, Russia in 1839, Modest Musorgsky is considered one of the most original and influential of the 19th-century Russian nationalist composers. As a piano prodigy, he made his musical debut at nine years old. At age 13, he was enrolled in a military academy in St. Petersburg and entered the Russian army in 1856. In 1857, he joined a circle of Russian nationalist composers from whom he received instruction in composition. The resulting works include Saint John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, also known as Night on Bald Mountain. In 1869, Musorgsky was reinstalled in his government job and was able to complete the original version of the opera Boris Godunov, which was

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first produced after considerable changes in 1874. Other works during this time include the song cycles The Nursery (1872) and Songs and Dances of Death (1877), and his most famous work, Pictures at an Exhibition.

MICHELE GIFFORD

Staging, Serenade/Within the Golden Hour

Michele grew up in Dallas, Texas. She began her training with Ann Etgen and Bill Atkinson at the Dallas Metropolitan Ballet. At the age of sixteen, she moved to New York City to attend the School of American Ballet on full scholarship. Two years later, she became a member of the New York City Ballet. In her twelve-year career at New York City Ballet, Michele had the opportunity to perform many soloist and principal roles including Balanchine’s Apollo, Rubies, Agnon, Symphony in Three Movements, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stars and Stripes to name a few. Michele also originated many roles, including Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite, Peter Martins’ Echo, Christopher Wheeldon’s Slavonic Dances, and David Parsons’ Touch. In 2000, Michele joined Texas Ballet Theater under Ben Stevenson.

Michele has taught throughout the country, including Ballet West, Boston Ballet, Next Generation Ballet, Mejia International Ballet, and Indiana University, to name a few. Besides teaching, Michele is a Repetiteur for the Balanchine Trust as well as renown choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon. Throughout her 29-year performing career, she has taught and owned her own Gyrotonic studio, Studio G, passing on her knowledge of movement to people from all walks of life. Michele’s passion doesn’t stop in the ballet studio or Gyrotonic studio but continues at home with her two children, Ryan and Morgan.

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AMAR RAMASAR

Staging, Pictures at an Exhibition

Amar Ramasar was born in the Bronx, New York and began his studies at the School ofAmerican Ballet (SAB) in 1993. In addition, he studied at the American Ballet Theatre Summer Program. Mr. Ramasar became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 2000 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet the following year. He was promoted to Soloist in 2006 and Principal Dancer in 2009. While dancing with the Company Mr. Ramasar was featured in numerous works by George Balanchine including: Agon, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, George Balanchine’s The NutcrackerTM , Romeo + Juliet, and Swan Lake. He was also prominently featured in works choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, Jerome Robbins, and Christopher Wheeldon. In addition, Mr. Ramasar originated several roles in works by Mauro Bigonzetti, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millepied, Justin Peck, and Alexei Ratmansky, among others.

Mr. Ramasar was a recipient of the Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in 2015, and a Mae L. Wien Award recipient for 2000.Ramasar additionally works collaboratively with many international choreographers expanding his own training and enriching his collaborators worlds. In 2018, Ramasar played Jigger Craigin, one of the lead roles in the revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel on Broadway. He performed the Tony award winning choreography live for the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In 2019, Ramasar was a Principal guest artist with the Teatro dell Opera di Roma and originated the role of Don José in its brand new, full length production of Carmen, choreographed by Jiří Bubeníček. Most recently, Ramasar was a Principal guest artist with the company, Ballet Next, for its 2019/20 New York season at New York Live Arts. In 2020, Ramasar starred as Bernardo, Leader of the Sharks, in the revival of West Side Story on Broadway. Ramasar is a faculty member of the New York City Musical Theater Summer Intensive of Joffrey Ballet School. Following his career as Principal dancer at the New York City Ballets since May 2022, Ramasar has been traveling worldwide setting works of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins approved by their respective Foundation and Trust.

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MARK STANLEY

Lighting Design, Serenade/ Lighting Redesign, Pictures at an Exhibition

Mark Stanley, Resident Lighting Designer for New York City Ballet, has designed over 200 premieres for the company’s repertoire including Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom. He has worked with choreographers around the world including Peter Martins, Susan Stroman, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, William Forsythe, Kevin O’Day and Susan Marshall. His designs are in the repertoire of nearly every major ballet company in North America and Europe, including The Royal Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Teatro alla Scala, Mariinsky Ballet, Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Boston Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and The Jaffrey Ballet.

Mr. Stanley previously served as Resident Designer for New York City Opera. His theatre work includes the Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Paper Mill Playhouse, Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen and off-Broadway. His designs for George Balanchine›s The Nutcracker and other works have been seen on Live from Lincoln Center and Great Performances. Mr. Stanley heads the Master of Fine Art Design and Production Programs as well as the Lighting Design Program at Boston University and is on the Board of Directors of The Hemsley Lighting Programs.

JAMES INGALLS

Lighting Design, Within the Golden Hour

American lighting designer James F. Ingalls creates lighting designs for ballet and modern dance as well as theatre, symphony concerts and opera. He is a welcome guest at Dutch National Opera & Ballet, where he provided the lighting designs for the operas Only the Sound Remains, La Clemenza di Tito, Girls of the Golden West and Nixon in China, the musical theatre production Perle Noire, the full-length ballets Coppelia, Giselle, Don Quixote and several works of the Dutch National Ballet programme Present/s, among others. In addition, he created several lighting designs for the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Mark Morris Dance Group and the nonprofit dance academy The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, California. He has also worked with theatre director Garry Hynes and opera director Peter Sellars for many years.

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In recent years, Ingalls provided the lighting designs for TWYLA NOW at the New York City Center, a new production of George Balanchine’s Firebird for Miami City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty (for American Ballet Theatre and Balletto del Teatro alla Scala) and The Fairy’s Kiss (for Miami City Ballet), the twelve world premieres presented by San Francisco Ballet in the programme Unbound and for Raymonda by Dutch National Ballet.

KARINSKA

Costume Design, Serenade

Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska (October 3, 1886 – October 18, 1983), was an Oscar-winning costumier of cinema, ballet, musical and dramatic theatre, lyric opera, and ice spectacles. Over her 50-year career, which began at age 41, Karinska earned legendary status time and again through her continuing collaborations with stage designers including Christian Bérard, André Derain, Irene Sharaff, Raoul Pêne du Bois and Cecil Beaton; performer-producers Louis Jouvet and Sonja Henie; and ballet producers René Blum, Colonel de Basil and Serge Denham. Her longest and most-renowned collaboration was with choreographer George Balanchine for more than 70 ballets. The first known work was “The Celebrated Popoff Porcelain,” a one-act ballet for Nikita Balieff’s 1929 La Chauve-Souris with music by Tchaikovsky for which Karinska executed the costumes design by Sergey Tchekhonin. She began to design costumes for Balanchine ballets in 1949 with Emmanuel Chabrier’s Bourrèe Fantasque for the newlyfounded New York City Ballet. Their final collaboration was the 1977 Vienna Waltzes. Balanchine and Karinska together developed the American (or “powder puff”) tutu ballet costume, which became an international costume standard. She was the first costume designer to win the Capezio Dance Award, in 1962, for costumes “of visual beauty for the spectator and complete delight for the dancer.”

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ADELINE ANDRÉ

Costume Design, Pictures at an Exhibition

Adeline André is a French fashion designer and the head of one of the sixteen haute couture design houses in Paris. Born in French Equatorial Africa, Andrè began taking art lessons and later became Marc Bohan’s assistant for haute couture at Christian Dior. Ten years later, with the support of Hungarian architect Istvan Dohar and Nicolas Puech-Hermè, the designer launched her own haute couture and ready-to-wear house. The garment with three armholes became her cult piece, registered with the National Institute of Intellectual Property in 1982. In 1997, she was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and later was officially entered into the closed circle of Parisian haute couture, receiving the haute couture label awarded by the Ministry of Industry.

MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ

Costume Design, Within the Golden Hour

Marty Pakledinaz designed costumes for 35 Broadway shows spanning more than three decades, his work nominated ten times for a Tony Award, and winning twice, for Kiss Me Kate and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Pakledinaz also costumed the Encores! series at City Center, and designed costumes for the San Francisco Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Metropolitan Opera’s Iphigenie en Tauride, the 2011 Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular and the film “My Week With Marilyn.” He designed costumes for hundreds of theater, opera, dance, and film pieces, including works by Tomasson, Stowell, Wheeldon, and Balanchine, among others.

EMILY ADAMS

Newtown, Pennsylvania

Ballet West II 2005, Artist 2007, Demi-Soloist 2011, Soloist 2013, Principal Artist 2015

SPONSORED BY THE JANET QUINNEY LAWSON FOUNDATION

ADRIAN FRY

Omaha, Nebraska

Artist 2010, Soloist 2012, First Soloist 2014, Principal Artist 2017

Principal Artists

KATLYN ADDISON

Ontario, Canada

Artist 2011, Demi-Soloist 2014, Soloist 2016, First Soloist 2018, Principal Artist 2021

TYLER GUM

Calhan, Colorado

Ballet West II 2009, Artist 2010, Demi-Soloist 2014, Soloist 2016, First Soloist 2018, Principal Artist 2023

JENNA RAE HERRERA

Ontario, California

Ballet West II 2007, Artist 2010, Demi-Soloist 2015, Soloist 2016, First Soloist 2020, Principal Artist 2021

Principal Artists

DAVID HUFFMIRE

Reno, Nevada

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2014, Ballet West II 2016, Artist 2018, Soloist 2022, Principal Artist 2024

SPONSORED BY THE FREDERICK QUINNEY LAWSON FOUNDATION

AMY POTTER

Roanoke, Virginia

Ballet West II 2011, Artist 2012-2014, Soloist 2021, Principal Artist 2022

SPONSORED BY CAROLE WOOD AND DARRELL HENSLEIGH

JORDAN VEIT

Seattle, Washington

Ballet West II 2012, Artist 2013, Demi-Soloist 2016, Soloist 2018, Principal Artist 2022

Soloists

KRISTINA POOL

Princeton, New Jersey

Ballet West II 2015, Artist 2017, Demi-Soloist 2022, Soloist 2023

DOMINIC BALLARD

Albury, NSW, Australia

Artist 2017, Demi-Soloist 2022

VINICIUS LIMA

Vitoria, Brazil

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2016, Ballet West II 2018, Artist 2020, Demi-Soloist 2023

Demi-Soloists

LILLIAN CASSCELLS

Washington, D.C.

Artist 2017, Demi-Soloist 2024

JAKE PREECE

Vancouver, Canada

Ballet West II 2016, Artist 2019, Demi-Soloist 2022

NICOLE FANNÉY

Cary, North Carolina

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2016, Ballet West II 2018, Artist 2020, Demi-Soloist 2023

SPONSORED BY JENNIFER AND GIDEON MALHERBE

Orem, Utah

Ballet West II 2020, Artist 2022, Demi-Soloist 2024

Corps Artists

JAZZ KHAI BYNUM

Germantown, Maryland

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2018, Ballet West II 2019, Artist 2021

ANDERSON DUHAN

Holliday, Texas

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2019, Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

MIKAYLA GYFTEAS

Anchorage, Alaska

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023, Artist 2024

KYE COOLEY

Bowie, Maryland

Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

SPONSORED BY JENNIFER PRICE-WALLIN AND TONY WALLIN

TAYLOR FIKES

Columbia, Maryland Artist 2024

JACOB HANCOCK

Lehi, Utah

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2018, Ballet West II 2020, Artist 2022

Corps Artists

JAMES JOBSON-LARKIN

New York City, New York

Artist 2024

SCHUYLER LIAN

Wayne, Pennsylvania

Ballet West II 2022, Artist 2024

JONAS MALINKATHOMPSON

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy

Trainee 2020, Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

TATIANA STEVENSON

Cortlandt Manor, New York

Ballet West Academy

Trainee 2018, Ballet West II 2020, Artist 2022

JOSEPH LYNCH

Cumberland, Rhode Island

Ballet West II 2017, Artist 2019

WILLIAM LYNCH

San Diego, California

Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

Ballet West II

Ontario, Canada

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2020, Ballet West II 2022

TEA HINCHLEY

Castle Rock, Colorado

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2024

San Diego, California

Ballet West II 2023

AVA

Orlando, Florida

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2024

Tokyo, Japan

Ballet West II 2024

Dallas, Texas

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2022, Ballet West II 2024

Melbourne, Australia

Ballet West II 2024

Savannah, Georgia

Ballet West II 2023

Miami, Florida

Ballet West II 2024

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023

Los Gatos, California

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2022, Ballet West II 2024

Boston, Massachusetts

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Ballet West II 2024

MIRIN HIRANO

ANDRE MCGREGOR II

ANNA MURRAY

OLIVIA BOOK

JAYA DHAND

ADRIAN FITE

LUND FULLER

VICTOR GALEANA

GRAY

RÉMY GRAY

CALLIE HERBERT

SOPHIA NANNI

ARIF TOLEUGAZIN

ADULT BALLET

Classes 7 Days a Week

BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

Trolley Corners Salt Lake Campus on 700 east

Jessie Eccles Quinney Ballet Centre by Capitol Theatre

Utah County Campus in Pleasant Grove

Peggy Bergmann Park City Campus via the Jeremy Ranch exit

PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy

The Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy, the official school of Ballet West, is Utah’s premier source of dance training, providing the highest caliber of ballet instruction to professionally-bound students, as well as to those who simply wish to enjoy this beautiful and athletic art form. Academy students experience a structured curriculum offered in a nurturing, respectful, and positive environment, celebrating and exploring each student’s individual strengths and abilities.

The Ballet West Academy and its distinguished faculty are led by Evelyn Cisneros-Legate, an ever-growing and dynamic leader in the international field of dance. Pre-professional students are given the unique opportunity to be observed regularly and take classes with Ballet West Artistic Director Adam Sklute, and are considered for future positions with Ballet West. Avocational students build strength, coordination, and confidence through focused and joyous top-level dance education.

Classes begin at age three and are available at four locations: The Jessie Eccles Quinney Ballet Centre, Trolley Corners, Utah County, and Park City.

frederick quinney lawson ballet west academy director evelyn cisneros-legate

students from ballet west academy and trolley corners campuses principal katherine lawrence

ballet west academy utah county campus principal heather thackeray

ballet west academy peggy bergmann park city campus principal allison debona

student dancers from the professional training division.

Wellness Partners

We are thankful for all the medical professionals who are committed to helping our dancers perform their best and stay injury-free.

OFFICIAL HEALTH PARTNER OF BALLET WEST

Dr. Claire Gross, MD, CAQSM

Jennifer Bentley, PT, DPT, OCS

Mary Bastian, MS, LAT, ATC

Gina Wojnar, DPT

Betsy Johnson MS ATC, Pilates

Leadership Council 2024-25

Executive Committee

President Helle LeRette

VP Communications Jennifer Malherbe

Secretary Ellen Tolstad

Treasurer Cyndalynn Tilley

Sarah Poulsen, Pilates

Ashley Hagensick, Sports Dietitian

Tony Kemmochi, PsyD

Dr. Jeremy Wimmer

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Leadership Council

Awards Chair Kathleen Gardner

Dancer Liaisons

Lesia Hunter

Jeanne Potucek

Julie Terry Shulimson

Membership Chair Anne Neeley

Nominating Chairs

Daniel Darger

Tami Hansen

Outreach Chair Doyle Clayburn

Park City Membership Chair Franki Loftus

Parliamentarian Susie Funk

Young Patrons Chair Kristina Keene

Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support

$500,000 AND ABOVE

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

The Kahlert Foundation

Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP)

Utah State Board of EducationProfessional Outreach Programs in the School (POPS)

$250,000 - 499,999

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Intermountain Health*

$100,000 - 249,999

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation

Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation

Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation

S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

State of Utah - Department of Cultural & Community Engagement

Utah Division of Arts & Museums

Utah Toyota Group

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation

$25,000 - 99,999

B. W. Bastian Foundation

Bank of America

Beaver Creek Foundation

BMW of Murray and Pleasant Grove

Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation

Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation

The Florence J. Gillmor Foundation

The Grand America Hotel and The Laurel Brasserie*

The John C. Kish Foundation

David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation

Mark Miller Toyota McCarthey Family Foundation

We thank the following community partners for their generous contributions.

OOCL*

JoAnne L. Shrontz Family Foundation

Simmons Family Foundation

SkyShare*

Summit County Cultural RAP Tax

Utah Office of Tourism

$10,000 - 24,999

The Brown Family Foundation

R. Harold Burton Foundation

Cache Valley Bank

The Jeffrey and Helen Cardon Foundation

Clyde Companies

CompuNet, Inc.

Edison House*

Every Blooming Thing*

The Framing Establishment

Goldman Sachs

Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

Hilton Salt Lake City Center*

Ivy & Varley*

John and Sonia Lingos Family Foundation

Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation

O.C. Tanner

Park City Community Foundation: Youth United Fund

Promontory Foundation

Salt Lake City Arts Council

So Danca

Norman C. Tanner and Barbara L. Tanner Second Charitable Support Trust

U.S. Bank Foundation

Dr. Jeremy Wimmer, Summit Chiropractic and Wellness*

$5,000 - 9,999

15th Street Gallery*

Berenice J. Bradshaw Charitable Trust

Grandeur Peak Global Advisors

InterNet Properties

J. Wong's Thai & Chinese Bistro*

Kilkea Castle*

Laziz Kitchen*

Luxe Automotive*

Market Street Grill*

Occidental Petroleum

Ogden's Own*

Osteria Amore*

The Jerome Robbins Foundation

Rocky Mountain Power Foundation

Ruth's Chris Steak House*

Squatters Pub Brewery

Stewart Education Foundation

Squatters Pub Brewery*

Williams Companies

$1,000 - 4,999

AAA Jewelers*

Adobe

Chevron Matching Employee Fund

Elevated Charter School

Friends of Ballet West

Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation

Shiebler Family Foundation

Snow, Christensen & Martineau Foundation

SoCupcake*

Summit Sotheby's International Realty

Utah Royals*

Warehouse Park City*

Wynn Las Vegas*

The above lists includes corporate, foundation, and government support received as of September 20, 2024.

* Indicates contribution made in-kind

 Indicates cash and in-kind contributions

Individual Donors

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE

We thank our Founder’s Circle donors, each of whom has given significantly to the company throughout its history, either through collective annual giving or extraordinary, one-time gifts.

B.W. Bastian Foundation

Peggy Bergmann

Val A. Browning Foundation

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

The Kahlert Foundation

Jennifer Horne-Huntsman and Scott Huntsman

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation

Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation

John and Marcia Price Family Foundation

S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation

Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP)

Shari and David Quinney

Beano Solomon

Utah Division of Arts & Museums

Utah State Board of EducationProfessional Outreach Programs in the Schooll

HERITAGE CLUB

We thank our loyal Heritage Club patrons for their generous annual support.

MR. C.

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Peggy Bergmann

The DiFiore Family

The Ellis Family

Jennifer Horne-Huntsman and Scott Huntsman

Barbara Levy Kipper (Adam's 10th: and the Kipper Family Foundation)

Frederick Q. Lawson

Shari H. and David Quinney

The Price Family

Theodore Schmidt

Jonathan and Liz Slager

Beano Solomon

Anonymous

$50,000 - $99,999

Vilija Avizonis and Gregory McComas

Brad and Linda Walton

Kimberly and Jay Heglar

Anonymous

MRS. WALLACE

$25,000 AND $49,999

Bronwyn Newport-Bradley and Todd Bradley

Drew W. Browning

J. Chase Dreyfous Jr.

W. Hague & Sue J. Ellis Foundation

Samantha Topping Gellert and John Gellert

Michael and Kimberly Labertew

Tatiana Lingos-Webb Prince and Matthew Prince

Jennifer and Gideon Malherbe

Stephen and Melina Nicolatus

Eileen Ragsdale

Sharon Seiner

Dean Speer*

Ms. Taylor Swift, The Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

Anonymous

PRINCIPAL

$15,000 - 24,999

Michael Black and Kimberly Strand

The Hemingway Foundation

Frankand Leslie Corbett

Erik and Uzo Erlingsson

Stephanie and Tim Harpst

Courtney Miller Hawks

Katherine Daines Lindsay

Caryl Marsh

Park City Community Foundation: The Solomon Fund

Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker

Jeanne Potucek

Jonathan and Amanda Schmieder

Teresa Silcox

Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom

Eddie Stone

Sarah Eccles Taylor and Gary Taylor

Roy and Lisa Vincent

Julia S. Watkins

Carole Wood and Darrell Hensleigh

Athelia Woolley LeSueur

Anonymous

FIRST SOLOIST

$10,000 - 14,999

Cole Adams

Samantha and Jordan Atkin

H. Brent and Bonnie Jean Beesley

Marc and Cammy Fuller

David and SandyLee Griswold

Alan and Jeanne Hall

Mr. and Mrs. E. Dean Hamblin

Heidi Huntsman and Mark Robinson

Brent and Maren Jensen

Ryan Kelly

Alison and Paul Mayfield

Rachèle McCarthey and Brock Van de Kamp

Willis McCree and John Fromer

John and Andrea Miller

Norman C. Tanner and Barbara L. Tanner

Second Charitable Support Trust

Brooke Peel

Shauna Bamberger Priskos

George W. Henry, Jr. and James Rose

Michael Scolamiero

The Sam & Diane Stewart Family Foundation

Naoma Tate and the Family of Hal Tate

Anonymous (2)

SOLOIST

$5,000 - 9,999

Ballet West Guild

Clisto and Suzanne Beaty

The Brown Family Foundation

Marie Brown

Matthew and George Cardon-Bystry

Carol T. Christ

Leslie and Myles Culhane

Melissa H. and Scott Cutler

Linda S. Daines

John and Joan Firmage

Weston Firmage

Charlie and Shannon Freedman

Drs. Marc and Mary Carole Harrison

Kathie and Charles Horman

Robert and Dixie Huefner

Heidi Huntsman and Mark Robinson

Karin Hurst

Ryan Kelly

Jeanne M. Kimball

Helle Le Rette

Shari and Bruce Lindsay

James MacInnes

Anne Neeley

Jeanie Pollack

Marcia JS Richards

Mark and Melanie Robbins

Chris and Ellen Rossi

The Rougelot Family

Sandefur Schmidt

Ghazaleh Semnani

Ashley and Ryan Smith

Kristin and Tom Stockham

Nadine Tang

Kathy Warren and Luigi Resta

Susan Warshaw

Jeff and Holly Whiteman

Anne Wilson and Peter Lawson

Edward Zipser

DEMI-SOLOIST

$2,500 - 4,999

Peter and Alexandra Agrapides

Dr. Ann Berghout Austin

Brett Campbell

Carol Carter

Cecile and Harold Christiansen

Donna Conway

Jessica Dall

ArtEmotion

Dr. Frances Dolloph

Matt and Nancy Dorny

Natalie DuPaix

Susan and Joel Eaton

Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation

Aaron Eckhauser

Tracy Frankel

Barbara W. Frazier

Dee Gauss

John and Ilauna Gurr

Paul and Patricia Hansen

Elizabeth Huntsman

Gordon Irving

Adam and Jessie Justis

John S. Karls

Helen Kennedy

David Luker

Paul and Melanie Lyon

Thomas and Mary McCarthey

Ted A. McKay

John & Bria Mertens

Louis and Carolyn Mizell

Trevor Nielson

Elizabeth and Vincent Novack

Ruth and Phillip Novak

Richard and Lois Peterson

Rich and Nancy Potashner

Margaret P. Sargent

Shiebler Family Foundation

James R. Kruse and Mary Jo Smith

Sue and Jack Stahl

Laura Scott and Rodney Mena

Jonathon Tonioli

Kevin Voyles

Jay and Alicia Wilson

Jo-Ann Wong

Anonymous

CORPS DE BALLET

$1,500 - $2,499

Erica and Shade Anderson

Stephen Anderson

Carol Baer

Frances and Jerome Battle

Tika Beard and Cathy Harlin

Gary Beers

Vicki and Bill Bennion

Ginny Bostrom

Elinor and Martin Colman

Deirdre A. Conway

Wilma Corkery and John R. Corkery III M.D.

Pascale De Rozario and Jonathan Crossett

Richard and Pamela Dropek

John Eckert

Sissy Eichwald

Hot Shot Sprinkler Repair & Landscape LLC

Keith Frederick

Karen L. Freed

Dr. Martin I. and Sheila G. Gelman

Bob and Mary Gilchrist

Julie and Devon Glenn

Andrew and Barbara Goldberg

Natalie and Ted Grandy

Elizabeth and Jack Hammond

Kenneth and Kate Handley

Jon and Tami Hansen

Michael R. and Sheila I. Harper

Vicki and Ronald Hauben

Jason and Amy Hawkins

Michael and Kathryn Hayes

Mark and Wendi Holland

Laura Holleman

Julie Hopkins

Steve Jackson

David P. Heuvel and Johann Jacobs

Marilyn and Chester Johnson

G. Frank and Pamela Joklik

Robert and Karla Knox

The Kohlburn/Lecointre

Family

Katherine Probert Labrum

Cynthia Lampropoulos and Dr. George Gourley

Franki Loftus

Sarah Lowe

Heidi and Edward Makowski

Kenneth Melby

Nancy Melich and Lex Hemphill

David and Colleen Merrill

Dan P. Miller

Maren Mullin

Anne M. and William C. Nelsen

Kirsten Novak

Tomi Jean Ossana and Chris Proctor

Convergence Planning

Linda S. Pembroke

Katie Marie Pollard

Melanie Preece

Lee Quinney

Corey Rammell

Suzanne and David Razor

Dan Reeb

Irwin and Harriet Ross

Mark and Linda Scholl

Brylan Schultz

Robert and Nancy Schumacker

Aharon Shulimson and Julie Terry

John Sklute

Kenneth Spitzer

Lou Ann Stevens

Cyndie Taylor

Beverly and Daniel Vargo

Amy Wadsworth and David Richardson

Mark Weisbender

Sarah and Rich West

Michelle Wheeler

Terry R. Whipple

Pearl Wright

Anonymous (2)

The above list includes individual donations received as of September 20, 2024.

Individual Donors

MEMBERSHIP

We thank our Members at the Producer and Director levels for their generous annual support of $500 and above.

DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER

$500-1499

Christine B. Anderson

Alta's Rustler Lodge

Sara Jane Anderson

Ronald and Kathy Aoki

Constanza Astorga

Michael and Jacqueline

Bailey

Jean Baker

Marcy Barlow

Liesl Basile

Thomas Bath

Thomas and Mary Ann Bauman

Ernest and Jane Bebb

Chandra and Eric Bergeson

Sharon and Michael Bertelsen

Kenneth and Melinda Birrell

Melissa Blair

Richard C. and Jennie

Holman Blake

Marie Bohata

Joan and Bryan Bowles

Jeffrey Breglio

Richard and Judith Cannon

Carol Ann Christensen

Alan S. and Orlene Cohen

Janice and Richard Coleman

Sandra Covey

Debbie Davis

Eric and Shellie Eide

In Memory of Lela and Reid

Ellsworth

Lisa Fassnacht

Amy Fulton

Patti Eylar and Charlie

Gardner

David Keith Garside and Audrey Miner

Cathy Gelwix

Ann and Rick Gold

Mary Gootjes and John Davis

Mikisha Haeri

Sandra and David Haughey

Nathaniel Hoffelmeyer & Elizabeth Evans

Kevin C. Holmes

Elise Hutchings

David Inkley

David and Linda Irvine

Edith Johnson

Sally and Ron Larkin

Toni L. Lehtinen

Julie Lewis

Lisa Lindbrg and Sean Bennion

Rachel Linkletter

David and Donna Lyon

Courtney Maclean

Dr. Ned L. and Mrs. Alene

Mangelson

Howard Mann

Yolanda Marroquin-Lewis

Raven Mathis

Will Mciff and Aaron

Spades

Stephen and Sandy Morgan

Chris and Henry Morrison

JoAnn G. Robertson

Maura and Serge

Olszanskyj

Rachel Otto

Ronald and Camille Parker

Taylor and Holly Parkin

Mrs. Elodie Payne

Leslie Peterson and Kevin

Higgins

Lana and Boris Petkovic

Jill Poulson

Delia and Craig Reece

Barbara Snarr Reid

Carolyn Rich-Denson

Leena Rinne

Scot and Celeste Roberts

Genevieve Maire Rosol

Dr. Bernard Simbari and William Barnett

Cynthia Sinclair

David Gray Porter

Tiffannie R. Smith

Marilyn Smolka

George H. Speciale

Kevin and Alice Steiner

Ruth Stone

Joan Swain

Cynthia Swensen

The Vicky Telford Family

Margaret and Paul Toscano

Jim and Zibby Tozer

Donald and Barbara Walker

Lois Williams

Judith W. Wolfe

Michael Wolfe

Richard and Marsha

Workman

Karen and Mike

Zimmerman

Anonymous (3)

The above list includes individual donations received as of September 20, 2024

Academy Scholarship Fund Donors

We thank those who have contributed to the Ballet West Academy Scholarship Fund, spanning all four Academy campuses, with generous donations of $1,000 and above.

Ballet West Guild

Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

George & Matthew Cardon-Bystry

Matthew and George Cardon-Bystry

Tiffany Colaizzi

Frank and Leslie Corbett

Jessica Dall

ArtEmotion

Aaron Eckhauser

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Dee Gauss

Samantha Topping Gellert and John Gellert

Kimberly and Jay Heglar

Janet Holland

Elizabeth Huntsman

Encore Society

Heidi Huntsman and Mark Robinson

Whitaker Irvin

Brent and Maren Jensen

Timothy J. Jones

Barbara Levy Kipper (Adam's 10th: and the Kipper Family Foundation)

Helle Le Rette

Matthew Prince & Tatiana LingosWebb Prince

Tatiana Lingos-Webb Prince and Matthew Prince

Ailee Magleby

Angelina Mainini

Jennifer and Gideon Malherbe

Kenneth Melby

John and Bria Mertens

John & Bria Mertens

Keith Musante

Anne Neeley

Park City Community Foundation: Youth United Fund

Brooke Peel

Chris and Ellen Rossi

Kathleen Sacco

Ghazaleh Semnani

Anda Smith-Elardo

Ms. Taylor Swift, The Charitable Fund of the Comm Fdtn of Middle Tenn

Jonathon Tonioli

Sam Vetas

Jennifer Price-Wallin and Anthony R. Wallin

Brad and Linda Walton

Carole Wood and Darrell Hensleigh

We honor those individuals who have made a meaningful commitment to the future of Ballet West by including the company in their estate planning.

Bené Arnold*

Gladys Banks*

Berenice J. Bradshaw*

Judy Brady* and Drew W. Browning

Val A. Browning*

Kenneth P. Burbidge, Jr.*

Dr. Robert H.* and Marianne Harding

Burgoyne

Mary Elizabeth Colton*

Orlando Coryell

Debbie Davis

The Donna L. Dell Trust*

Kent and Martha DiFiore

The Zorka D. Divich Trust*

Richard and Pamela Dropek

Dolores Doré Eccles*

Virginia Fackrell Estate*

Sid W. Foulger*

Dee Gauss

Dr. Esther S. Gross* and Dr. George D. Gross*

Merribeth Habegger-Anderson*

Stephanie and Timothy Harpst

Melissa A. Herbst*

Geoffrey C. Hughes*

Johann Jacobs and David Heuvel

Grace Jackson*

Flemming and Lana Jensen

Sara Kaplan

Dennis L. Kay Trust*

Barry L. Keller*

Cynthia Lampropoulos Family Trust

Adrienne Larson*

Gaye Herman Marrash*

Willis McCree

Glenn H. and Karen Fugal Peterson

Nancy Rapoport and Jeff Van Niel

Joy Rocklin

Marian Ream*

Pamela A. Scarpelli*

Michael Scolamiero

Teresa Silcox

Steven P. Sondrup*

Margot Shott*

Norman C. Tanner* and Barbara L. Tanner*

David Tundermann*

Oma W. Wagstaff*

Mrs. Glen Walker Wallace*

Gladys Walz*

Susan Warshaw

Afton B. Whitbeck*

Carole M. Wood and Darrell Hensleigh

Marelynn Weiss Zipser* and Edward Zipser

*Indicates donor has passed away

Gifts Made In Memory and In Honor

We thank those donors who have made a gift to Ballet West in memory or in honor of the individuals listed below.

IN MEMORY OF

Bené Arnold

Ballet West Guild

Janice Ione Berghout

Anne Berghout Austin

Earle R. Bevins III

Linda Bevins

Judy Watts Brady

Drew W. Browning

Skip Daynes

Ballet West Guild

Shirley DeBouzek

Michele Dornan

Lacey Elliston

Cheryl D. Gentle

Katharine W. Lamb

Heidi Lamb McLean

Jon Le Rette

Helle Le Rette

Nina Jonas and Andreas Heaphy

Ballet West Guild

Linda Tricia Fullmer

Ila Neeley

Ballet West Guild

Julia Reagan

Frances Reagan Copinga

Rodney S. Rougelot

Rodney Rougelot

Carol S. Rougelot

Rodney Rougelot

Rulynn Skidmore

Andrea Skidmore

Walker and Sue Wallace

Caroline Wallace

IN HONOR OF

Gabby Bonner-Barcomb

Marc A. Barcomb

Gracie Bell & Brandy Maack

Douglas Maack

Peggy Bergmann

Michael Labertew

Jenna Talia Camberlango

Wade Adam Miller

Peter Christie

Joel and Frances Harris

Shelly Cordova

Celia Ward

Krista Delahunty

Joe Delahunty

Sandy Gillings

Amy Lloyd Odessa

Sonya Fiske

Maralynn and Leo Sant

Edith Johnson

Adam Sklute

Harriet and Irwin Ross

The above list includes gifts made over the twelve month period prior to September 20, 2024.

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Adam Sklute

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

THE WILLAM CHRISTENSEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHAIR

Ballet West Staff

Liz Wiand

stage manager and production operations coordinator

Robert Clifford technical director/ head carpenter

Ethan Daughton assistant carpenter

Jeff F. Herbig properties master

James K. Larsen

lighting supervisor/ head electrician

Juliana Hedges assistant electrician

Emily Fowler

wardrobe supervisor Lizzie Fisher

wardrobe assistant

Yancey J. Quick wig master

I.A.T.S.E. Local 99 run of show crew

TICKETING AND SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

Jack E Stahl associate director of technology and ticketing

Natalie Thorpe senior manager of patron services

Brooke Christensen assistant manager of patron services

Jane Harris patron services and group sales lead advisor

Ashley Hipwell patron loyalty specialist

Ballet West is an American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)

American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) company.

House Rules

To ensure the enjoyment of the majority of our patrons who arrive on time, and in deference to the artists, latecomers will not be admitted to the auditorium until there is an appropriate pause in the performance. During some productions, this pause may not occur until the end of the first act.

• All casting is subject to change.

• For your own safety and the safety of other patrons, please do not exit the Theatre before the house lights are up.

• Any use of cameras and recording equipment in the Theatre, which is not authorized by the management, is strictly prohibited.

• No babes in arms.

• No smoking is permitted in the auditorium.

• Outside food and beverages are not allowed in the auditorium; as a courtesy to all patrons in attendance, food consumption is discouraged in the theatre during the performance.

• Lost articles may be claimed at security.

Reglas de Casa

• Anyone expecting emergency calls is urged to leave their seat locations and cell phones with the house manager.

• Please silence all electronic timepieces and cell phones for the period of the performance.

EMERGENCY EVACUATION INFORMATION

In the event of an emergency, please REMAIN SEATED and listen to information given by management and ushers.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre offers assistive listening devices free of charge that may be checked out at the coat check counter located in the lobby.

Para garantizar el disfrute de la mayoría de nuestros asistentes que llegan a tiempo, y en deferencia a los artistas, no se permitirá el ingreso al auditorio a quienes lleguen tarde hasta que haya una pausa adecuada en la función. Durante algunas producciones, esta pausa puede no ocurrir hasta el final del primer acto.

• Todos los actores están sujetos a cambios.

• Por su propia seguridad y la seguridad de los demás asistentes no abandone el teatro antes de que se enciendan las luces de la sala.

• Está estrictamente prohibido el uso de cámaras y equipos de grabación

• en el teatro que no estén autorizados por la

• administración.

• No se permiten bebés en brazos.

• No se permite fumar en el auditorio.

• No se permite la entrada de alimentos ni bebidas del exterior al auditorio; como cortesía a todos los asistentes presentes, ni se permite el consumo de alimentos

• en el teatro durante la función.

• Los objetos perdidos se pueden reclamar en seguridad.

• Se insta a cualquier persona que espere llamadas de emergencia a que deje sus asientos y sus teléfonos móviles con el director de la sala.

• Por favor silencie todos los relojes electrónicos y teléfonos móviles durante el período de la función.

INFORMACIÓN SOBRE EVACUACIÓN DE EMERGENCIA

En caso de emergencia, PERMANEZCA SENTADO y escuche la información que le proporcionen la dirección y los acomodadores.

DISPOSITIVOS DE AYUDA AUDITIVA

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre ofrece dispositivos de ayuda auditiva gratuitos que se pueden retirar en el guardarropa ubicado en el vestíbulo.

Para garantizar el disfrute de la mayoría de nuestros clientes que llegan a tiempo, y en deferencia a los artistas, no se permitirá el ingreso al auditorio a quienes lleguen tarde hasta que haya una pausa apropiada en la presentación. Durante algunas producciones, esta pausa puede no ocurrir hasta el final del primer acto.

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