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From Balanchine to Bournonville, and 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 unexpected as the Rocky Mountain region it represents. Ballet West has toured the world several times over, presenting the very best in American classical ballet.
Ballet West was established in Salt Lake City in 1963. Willam F. Christensen was the company’s first artistic director, co-founding the company together with Utah’s “First Lady of the Arts,” Glenn Walker Wallace. In 1951, Christensen had established the first ballet department in an American university at The University of Utah, and with the tireless assistance of Mrs. Enid Cosgriff, this program grew into the Utah Civic Ballet, Ballet West’s first incarnation. But this was not the first ballet company Willam Christensen founded. Along with his brothers, Lew and Harold, Christensen made history by establishing the oldest ballet company in the western United States, the San Francisco Ballet. There, he went on to create the first full-length American productions of Coppélia, Swan Lake, and his evergreen production of The Nutcracker, which remains in Ballet West’s repertoire to this day.
With 37 company members, 16 second company members, and a thriving academy that trains dancers of all ages, many of whom have gone on to professional careers with Ballet West and companies around the world, Ballet West ranks among the top professional ballet companies in America. Since its inception, the Company has had five artistic directors—its founder Willam Christensen, Bruce Marks, John Hart, Jonas Kage, and currently Adam Sklute, each of whom has helped to build Ballet West’s unique and expansive profile.
For more than 50 years, Willam Christensen and Ballet West have developed and influenced innumerable great artists in the ballet world. Some notable figures include Bart Cook, Finis Jhung, Jay Jolley, Victoria Morgan, Tomm Ruud, Michael Smuin, Richard Tanner, and Kent Stowell.
With an eclectic and ever expanding outlook, Ballet West is truly an American pioneer in the world of dance.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography: Jiří Kylián
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Welcome to Ballet West’s inaugural second fall program.
When I began at Ballet West 15 years ago, we reinstated our Fall program after two years without it. This program opened our annual season either with a dynamic mixed repertory show or a beloved or rare full-length story ballet, both exciting and vital aspects of our company’s mission. Over the years, however, we have found that there has been great demand from you, our cherished audiences, to experience both types of programming in the fall. So, we are proud this year to unveil two wildly different fall programs back-to-back. We just completed a run of the spectacular Pushkin story, Onegin, and now we present a trio of gems capped off by the Ballet West premiere of the Agnes de Mille/ Aaron Copland legendary collaboration, Rodeo.
For this program, I chose three works that, while each very different from the other, are masterpieces in their own way. Together, they take us on a journey from the pure and pristine, to the powerful and soulful, to the unabashedly joyful.
The program opens with George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco. First created in 1941 with his students at the School of American Ballet, it had its premiere in Rio de Janeiro as part of Balanchine’s and Lincoln Kirsten’s American Ballet Caravan, a touring company designed to feature the newly-emerging American form of classical ballet. This sublime work is set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, and it is a supreme example of Mr. Balanchine’s clear and clean, unadorned style. It epitomizes his ethos of “seeing the music.” Indeed, the choreography is so well crafted that, to me, watching it illuminates Bach’s elegant score in new and unexpected ways. It’s interesting to note that when it premiered in Rio in 1941 to great success, Harold and Lew Christensen were part of that troupe while Willam was back in the states teaching and directing. This ballet was, in fact, one of a handful of works the renowned Mr. B. gave to our founder Mr. C when Ballet West was first beginning. I’ve placed Czechoslovakian choreographer Jiří Kylián’s remarkable Return to a Strange Land in the middle of this program. This dreamlike, meditative, and startlingly athletic work was first created in Stuttgart, Germany in 1975. Its history and creation are fascinating in the context of this season. Kylián was a dancer for The Stuttgart Ballet under the direction of John Cranko. If any of you were able to see our revival of Onegin just a couple of weeks ago, you were able to experience what a master storyteller
Cranko was. The Stuttgart Ballet had just completed a triumphant tour to the United States. On the plane back to Germany, Cranko unexpectedly passed away. Kylián created this work as a homage to his director and mentor. He said returning to Stuttgart without Cranko was like returning to a strange land, hence the title. Kylián uses haunting piano music by Leoš Janáček, a Czech composer he has created with repeatedly throughout his career. Kylián combines the elegance of neoclassical ballet with a more grounded modern dance sensibility, and for this work, duet and trio partnering are almost ice-skaterlike in its athleticism, all the while, never losing the emotional depth of feeling emerging from Janáček’s music, unlike any other.
Finishing the program is the long-awaited Ballet West premiere of Rodeo. In 1942, Agnes de Mille choreographed this new American work and premiered the leading role of the cowgirl herself. The ballet garnered 23 curtain calls, which solidified it in the pantheon of leading 20th-century ballets. Now Ballet West is honored to celebrate the 80th anniversary of this groundbreaking work’s creation. De Mille envisioned a new and American-themed piece of dance theater specifically for the ballet stage. She was very much a part of a broader movement of the time, choosing to establish a style of dance that encompassed the legacy of classical ballet with both the burgeoning American modern dance scene and stories based on American themes.
De Mille developed the sweet story of a young woman who just wants to be “one of the guys,” but to get the romantic attentions of the head cowboy, she attempts to dress more “femininely,” only to discover she can be loved for who she naturally is. De Mille approached composer Aaron Copland, who had recently had success with another cowboy-themed ballet, Billy the Kid. Incidentally, Billy the Kid had its premiere in 1938 as part of the aforementioned Ballet Caravan that premiered Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco. In fact, the role of Pat Garrett in Billy was created on a premiere by Lew Christensen. With the instant success of Rodeo, de Mille was approached by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein to do the choreography for a new show that would revolutionize American musical theater –Oklahoma! Between that, Carousel, and many others,
Agnes de Mille built a sensibility approach to dance that has influenced American dance choreography to this day. With this revival, I have also been fascinated by how we as 21st-century audiences can interpret what the 1942 Rodeo says about gender identity and inclusion. At the end of the ballet, we the audience, along with the Cowgirl herself, realize her best friend, the Champion Roper, loves her for the “tomboy” she always was. This is a strong message of celebrating our own individuality.
All three works each bring us the transporting experience that can only be had in live theater. Together, they also illuminate the development of our current understanding of ballet with their specific approaches to music and movement. It is a testament to the Ballet West artists that they can so smoothly move from one style to another and dig into the unique details and challenges of each work.
As always, we are eternally grateful for your support and patronage! We hope you enjoy the performance.
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.
We open our 59th season with tremendous optimism and excitement, emerging from a difficult period of lockdowns resulting from the pandemic. As I have shared with you earlier, Ballet West weathered this challenging time through sheer determination and a commitment to “keeping the lights on” to the best of our ability, with everyone’s safety as our highest priority.
The return of Onegin, closely followed by a triple bill of contemporary works by some of the most prominent names in choreography, is a new undertaking for Ballet West. We anticipate two vastly different programs in close proximity will prove popular with our audiences to showcase the versatility of our dancers and will introduce you to works you may have not seen performed by Ballet West or other companies performing in Utah.
Onegin’s Ballet West premiere at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater in 2019 garnered huge acclaim from audiences and press alike. Along with his Romeo and Juliet, Onegin is considered among John Cranko’s finest works. Few choreographers possess Cranko’s ability to tell a story with such powerful movement and it is hard to imagine another choreographer exploring Tatiana’s character and predicament more profoundly than Cranko.
Returning the week after Onegin closes is George Balanchine’s early masterpiece, Concerto Barocco, the moving Return to a Strange Land by Jiři Kylián, and the rousing tribute to the American West, Rodeo, by the groundbreaking choreographer Agnes de Mille. This incredible program features three distinctly different styles of dance, with three incredible scores performed by our equally incredible dancers and our superb Ballet West Orchestra under Music Director Jared Oaks’s stellar direction.
We are delighted to start this season on strong financial footing, thanks to the generous support of so many stalwart donors who enable us to create art at the highest level, while maintaining affordable ticket prices for the community. The investment in our newly-purchased production of Onegin would not have been possible without the support of the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, which also happens to be our season sponsor, along with Salt Lake County’s Zoos, Arts & Parks (ZAP) Program
and Intermountain Healthcare. How tremendously fortunate we are to live in a state where the arts are valued and supported not only by individuals, but by foundations, corporations, and government agencies as well. The quality of life we enjoy in this beautiful state is enhanced every day by the arts, and Ballet West in particular.
I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to our returning subscribers as well as the many new subscribers we have in the audiences for these two programs. Our Ballet West family is getting larger each year, and none of our great work would be possible without you!
Warm wishes, Michael Scolamiero Executive Director Michael Scolamiero joined Ballet West in 2017 after an extensive international search led by Michael Kaiser, President Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Scolamiero previously served as Executive Director of Miami City Ballet for three years, during which time the organization achieved a significant reduction in debt, as well as robust growth in ticket revenue, contributions, and touring income. Prior to Miami City Ballet, Mr. Scolamiero was Pennsylvania Ballet’s Executive Director for 17 years, the longest tenure in the Company’s history and among the longest of any leader of a major ballet company. During his tenure, Mr. Scolamiero led the organization’s first capital campaign that raised $11.9 million (against a $10 million goal) to build an endowment and fund repertoire expansion. At Ballet West, Mr. Scolamiero is set to implement a newly-completed strategic plan and excited to guide a growing and robust Company.
Choreography: George Balanchine Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Staging: Michele Gifford Assistant Rehearsal Director: Maggie Wright-Tesch Costume Design: Eugene Berman Lighting Design: Jim French
Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra Conducted by Music Director: Jared Oaks
Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust by arrangement with the rights holder, New York City Ballet.
World Premiere: June 27, 1941, American Ballet Caravan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Utah Premiere: May 7, 1965
Concerto Barocco is set to Concerto for Two Violins (Bach). It is a soaring example of George Balanchine’s clean, elegant, and musical aesthetic. In 1965, Balanchine generously gave Ballet West founder, Willam Christensen, this beautiful work to help get the fledgling company off the ground. After nearly 20 years since it was last seen on the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre stage, one of Balanchine’s greatest creations returns.
Katlyn Addison (Nov. 4 – 5)/ Amy Potter (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/ Olivia Gusti (Nov. 10, 12) Emily Adams (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Brian Waldrep (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/Hadriel Diniz (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Choreography: Jiří Kylián
Music: Leoš Janáček
Coaching: Jeanne Solan
Scenic and Costume Design: Jiří Kylián
Lighting Design: Jiří Kylián (Original Concept)
Lighting Recreation: Jim French
Piano Soloist: Dr. Vera Oussetskaia-Watanabe
World Premiere: May 17, 1975, Stuttgart Ballet
Utah Premiere: April 2018, Capitol Theatre
Return to a Strange Land is a soulful ode to loss and longing. Using his signature style, both powerfully acrobatic and poetic, renowned Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián created this heart-stopping gem after the sudden loss of his friend and mentor, choreographer John Cranko. Return to a Strange Land is a haunting work set to Janáček solo piano pieces for six dancers on a stage strewn with autumn leaves.
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Chelsea Keefer (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/Amy Potter (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Jordan Veit/Hadriel Diniz David Huffmire/Brian Waldrep (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/(Nov. 5, 12 Mat) (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/(Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Emily Adams (Nov. 4, 10, 12)/Katlyn Addison (Nov. 5)
Adrian Fry (Nov. 4, 10, 12)/Tyler Gum (Nov. 5)
Chelsea Keefer (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/Amy Potter (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Jordan Veit (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/Hadriel Diniz (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Emily Adams (Nov. 4, 10, 12)/Katlyn Addison (Nov. 5)
Adrian Fry/Tyler Gum Dominic Ballard/Robert Fowler (Nov. 4, 10, 12)/ (Nov. 5) (Nov. 4, 10, 12) /(Nov.5)
Jordan Veit/Hadriel Diniz (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/(Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Choreography: Agnes de Mille
Music: Aaron Copland
Staging: Paul Sutherland, Diana Gonzalez
Set Design: Oliver Smith
Scenic Supervision: Rosaria Sinisi
Costume Design: Santo Loquasto
Original Lighting: Thomas R. Skelton
Lighting Recreation: Jim French Scenic and Costumes: Courtesy of Philadelphia Ballet
Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra Conducted by Music Director: Jared Oaks
Saturday Matinee conducted by Gabriel Gordon
This production of Rodeo is presented with the cooperation of DeMille Working Group, Anderson Ferrell, Director.
World Premiere: Oct. 16, 1942, New York’s Metropolitan Opera House
Utah Premiere: Nov. 4, 2022, Capitol Theatre
Rodeo, de Mille’s charming 1942 one-act story, is set to American Composer Aaron Copland’s buoyant, well-known score and represents the very pinnacle of Americana in classical ballet. It’s the sweet, simple story of a cowgirl who longs to be “one of the guys,” and loses, but then finds, her heart along the way.
In 1979, Rodeo choreographer Agnes de Mille appointed Paul Sutherland as the only repétiteur in the world authorized to teach Rodeo, and he has staged the show more than 60 times. Diana Gonzales worked with de Mille as a rehearsal assistant from 1986 until de Mille passed away in 1993. Both Sutherland and Gonzales traveled to Salt Lake in mid-August to set Rodeo with Ballet West dancers.
Cowgirl
Champion Roper
Head Wrangler
Kansas City Girls
Cowboys
Jenna Rae Herrera (Nov. 4, 12)/Chelsea Keefer (Nov. 5, 10)
Tyler Gum (Nov. 4, 12)/David Huffmire (Nov. 5, 10)
Brian Waldrep (Nov. 4-5, 10, 12 Eve)/ Robert Fowler (Nov. 12 Mat)
Lillian Casscells (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/ Victoria Vassos (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)
Khai Bynum, Olivia Gusti (Nov. 4, 10, 12 Eve)/ Amber Miller (Nov. 5, 12 Mat), Kazlyn Nielsen
Dominic Ballard, Beau Chesivoir, Robert Fowler (Nov. 12 Eve)/ Anderson Duhan (Nov. 12 Mat) Jacob Hancock (Nov. 5, 12 Mat)/ Vinicius Lima (Nov. 4, 10, Nov. 12 Eve), Noel Jensen
Isabella Corridon, Amelia Dencker, Rylee Rogers, Claire Wilson, Tatiana Stevenson
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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, which consisted 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 lists 425 works created by Balanchine in his lifetime.
Balanchine’s style has been described as neoclassical. A gifted musician himself, his response to Romantic Classicism was to deemphasize 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 ballets such as Apollo, Harlequinade, Liebeslieder Walzer, and La Sonnambula. The New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet remain dedicated to the preservation of Balanchine’s ideals.
Since the early 1970s, the celebrated Czech choreographer has created 100 works – threequarters for the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). His creations draw inspiration from many different sources, combine elements from diverse art forms, and defy categorisation. Kylián was the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater from 1978 until stepping from the role in 1999 to become the resident choreographer until December 2009.
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.
Venerated for his choreographic work for dancers of all age groups, Kylián has received many honours, 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 the Queen Beatrix from the Netherlands. In 2006, he co-created a film, CARMEN, which was choreographed and filmed in the devastated landscape of a surface coalmine in the Czech Republic.
Agnes de Mille achieved fame both as a dancer and choreographer. Among her masterpieces are Rodeo, in which she danced, Fall River Legend, and Three Virgins and a Devil. Miss de Mille changed the face of the American musical theatre with her choreography for Oklahoma!, which enjoyed a hit Broadway revival in 1979, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Paint Your Wagon, and other memorable shows. Miss de Mille directed and choreographed Allegro, The Rape of Lucretia, Out of This World, and Come Summer, and she choreographed the film version of Oklahoma!
Her awards include three New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, two Antoinette Perry (Tony) awards and The Handel Medallion in 1976, the highest award New York City gives. She had considerable success as a television figure, especially with an Omnibus series on ballet, and was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary entitled Agnes: The Indomitable De Mille, produced by Dance in America/PBS. She has written a number of books including Dance To The Piper, And Promenade Home, To A Young Dancer, Lizzie Borden: Dance Of Death, Speak To Me, Dance With Me and Where The Wings Grow. She was a founding member of The American Ballet Theatre and her last ballets, The Informer and The Other were great successes for that company. She died in October, 1993 at the age of 88 in New York City.
A magnificent Baroque-era composer, Johann Sebastian Bach has been revered through the ages for his work’s musical complexities and stylistic innovations. Johann Sebastian Bach had a prestigious musical lineage and took on various organist positions during the early 18th century, creating famous compositions like “Toccata and Fugue in D minor.” Some of his best-known compositions are the “Mass in B Minor,” the “Brandenburg Concertos” and “The WellTempered Clavier.” Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, on July 28, 1750. Today, he is considered one of the greatest Western composers of all time.
Leoš Janáček, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček (1854 – 1928), was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895, he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák. His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jenůfa (often called the “Moravian national opera”) at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world’s great opera stages. Janáček’s later works are his most celebrated. They include operas such as Káťa Kabanová, and The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta, Glagolitic Mass, Rhapsody Taras Bulba, two string quartets, and other chamber works. Along with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, he is considered one of the most important Czech composers.
Aaron Copland was one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century. By incorporating popular forms of American music such as jazz and folk into his compositions, he created pieces both exceptional and innovative. As a spokesman for the advancement of indigenous American music, Copland made great strides in liberating it from European influence.
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 twelveyear 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.
Paul Sutherland is the Principal Repétiteur for the De Mille Working Group. Mr. Sutherland was one of the repétiteurs chosen by Agnes de Mille to stage her ballets, principally Fall River Legend and Rodeo, which he has staged over 60 times in the U.S. and abroad. Major company productions have included American Ballet Theatre, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Alabama Ballet and Oklahoma City Ballet. Mr. Sutherland recently staged Fall River Legand for the Paris Opera Ballet in 2014.
Mr. Sutherland had an illustrious, international career as a principal ballet dancer, which spanned over 23 years. He was a former soloist with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet. During his career, he danced the Head Wrangler in Rodeo, as well as numerous classical and dramatic principal roles, working with such choreographers as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Robert Joffrey, Gerard Arpino, Alvin Ailey, Glen Tetley and George Balanchine. He has danced throughout North and South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. He has been a Ballet Master with Joffrey Ballet, Field Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and New Jersey Ballet.
Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, Associate Director and repétiteur for The De Mille Working Group. Ms. Gonzalez-Duclert was Agnes de Mille’s last rehearsal assistant, working with de Mille from 1987 to the end de Mille’s life in 1993. She assisted de Mille on the ballets The Informer and The Other, both for American Ballet Theatre, and was chosen by de Mille to carry on her musical theatre works. Other more recent de Mille stagings are several productions of Brigadoon; New York Theatre Ballet’s de Mille program at Carnegie Hall; and as assistant to Paul Sutherland on Fall River Legend for the Paris Opera Ballet and Rodeo for Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Ms. Gonzalez-Duclert’s performing career includes the Broadway and national touring companies of: On Your Toes, with Leslie Caron and Natalia Makarova, directed by George Abbott; Camelot, directed by and starring Richard Harris; and the role of “Meg” in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera (both Broadway and national tour), directed by Hal Prince.
Winner of eight Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, New York City’s Handel Medallion and numerous other honors, Oliver Smith (1918-1994) was the twentieth century’s most decorated American set designer. His scenic designs for musical comedy spanned a golden age on Broadway from the 40s through the 70s, including My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly!, West Side Story, Brigadoon, Camelot, and over sixty others. His designs for the dance included Rodeo, Fall River Legend, Fancy Free and Les Noces (and many others for American Ballet Theatre, which he co-produced for forty years with Lucia Chase). His films included Band Wagon, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Porgy and Bess, and his opera designs filled the stages of the Metropolitan and New York City Operas.
Born in Russia, Eugene Berman is known for his imaginary landscapes and architectural conceits. He is also recognized for his Baroque-like stage set designs for the likes of the metropolitan opera. A leader among the Surrealist and Neo-Romantic artists, Berman focused on the expression of emotion, loneliness and human isolation that emerged between the World Wars. Inspired by imaginary worlds created by Hollywood, Berman lived in Los Angeles for almost 10 years during which time he enjoyed the patronage
of the legendary collector Wright Ludington. Berman’s work is held by many significant museums and has been feature in solo exhibitions, including 2005’s High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime. In 1957, Berman retired to Rome.
Santo Loquasto is a designer for dance, theatre, and film. He has collaborated with choreographers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, James Kudelka, Kenneth MacMillan, Agnes de Mille, Mark Morris, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. In 1989, Loquasto won both the Tony and Drama Desk awards for his set design of the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Cafe Crown, and, in 1990, he again won both the Tony and Drama Desk awards for his costume design for Grand Hotel. He received his first Tony in 1977 for costume designs for The Cherry Orchard. For other work in the theatre, he has received an Obie, the Joseph Maharam Award, and both Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desks awards. Other productions for which his set designs have received Tony nominations are That Championship Season, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, The Cherry Orchard, American Buffalo, The Suicide, Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Glengarry Glen Ross. For film, Loquasto has received Academy Award nominations for his production design for Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway and Radio Days, and for his costume design for Allen’s Zelig. Other film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan, Big, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Husbands and Wives.
Jim French designs lighting for the performing arts and live events, with work seen in twenty-five countries around the globe. Highlights of Jim’s work in dance include over fifteen world premieres for San Francisco Ballet, nine seasons as resident designer for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and long-running collaborations with the choreographers Val Caniparoli, Pascal Rioult, and Amy Seiwert, with vertical dance company Bandaloop, and with Ballet West. At home in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has collaborated with Alonzo King Lines Ballet, RAW Dance, Shotgun Players, Kronos Quartet, Joe Goode Performance Group, ODC Dance, Post:Ballet, SF Danceworks, Imagery, Sacramento Ballet, Marin Theater Company, West Edge Opera, and has been house LD at SF Jazz. Favorite credits from further afield include Finnish National Ballet, Ballett Basel, Hubbard Street Dance
Chicago, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Playwright’s Horizons, Carte Blanche, Royal Ballet of Flanders, and LA Dance Project. Jim designed lighting for the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit, and volunteers for Dancers Responding to AIDS and Bike East Bay.
Thomas R. Skelton was an American lighting designer. In a career spanning more than four decades, he was best known for his lighting designs for ballet and Broadway theatre productions. He pursued an interest in modern dance after moving to New York, studying dance with Martha Graham and José Limón. His lighting career started as an apprentice to Jean Rosenthal at the American Dance Festival. He worked for Robert Joffrey’s new dance company as a lighting designer and stage manager. He taught lighting design at both Yale University and New York Studio and Forum of Stage Design.
Most of his work was within the world of dance, particularly ballet. He designed lighting for, among others, the American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the Ohio Ballet, for which he was Associate Director. Notable ballets he designed lighting for include: Dances at a Gath ering (Robbins), Astarte (Joffrey), The Moor’s Pavane (Limón), The Green Table (Jooss), Kettantanz (Arpino), and Parade (Massine). He also designed lighting for some 63 Broadway productions, including Guys and Dolls (1976), The King and I (1977), Oklahoma! (1979), Peter Pan (1979), Brigadoon (1980), and The Iceman Cometh (1985). Skelton has received three Tony Award nominations.
Aubrey Woods’ rise as a professional violinist vividly demonstrates the versatility that is the sine qua non for twenty-first 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. Most recently, she performed solo and chamber music recitals in London at the Royal College of Music, St. Paul’s Covent Garden and Westminster Music Library in company with her husband, violinist Alexander Woods. 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. Aubrey holds the Master of Music degree from Brigham Young University. She plays a violin made by Enrico Marchetti (1884).
Originally from Gresham, Oregon, Emily Day-Shumway is a graduate of The Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Oleh Krysa, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Ariana Bronne. She participated in the music festivals of Aspen, Jerusalem, Schleswig-Holstein, and the National Repertory Orchestra where she was soloist and Principal Second. She is a former member of the Greenwich Symphony (Connecticut) and the Jupiter Symphony (New York City.) Emily is a busy freelancer who performs with the Utah Symphony, Utah Chamber Artists, and the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series. She’s in high demand in the recording studios around Utah, while also maintaining a private teaching studio. Emily is currently Associate Concertmaster for the Ballet West Orchestra. Emily’s love for Ballet West goes back to age 12 when she danced as a soldier in Ballet West’s touring production of the The Nutcracker in Portland, Oregon. Emily is married to Utah Symphony cellist, Kevin Shumway, and is the proud mother of 3 sons.
Gabriel Gordon made his professional conducting debut in 1998 and has since enjoyed a varied career conducting across the United States, Australia, and Europe. Mr. Gordon has conducted the Santa Fe Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, Santa Fe Opera, NEXT Ensemble, NOVA Chamber Series, Chamber Orchestra Ogden, and made his Ballet West debut last year. He currently is Cover Conductor for Ballet West, conducts The New American Philharmonic, is the Orchestra Director at Syracuse Arts Academy, is the Artistic Director for the Ogden Bach Festival, and is a Board Member of the Davis Arts Council.
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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.
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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.
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We thank our Members at the Producer and Director levels for their generous annual support of $500 and above.
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We thank our Park City Ballet Corps for their support in bringing world-class ballet to Summit County.
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We thank the below donors for their contributions to the Ballet West Artistic Impact Fund. Each gift was made specifically in support of one of three initiatives: Commissioning New Works, Commissioning New Productions, or Sponsoring National and International Touring.
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.
In Memory of Robert Arbogast, from Friends, Family, and the Ballet West Guild
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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 Gaye Herman Marrash* Willis McCree and John Fromer Glenn H. and Karen Fugal Peterson Nancy Rapoport and Jeff Van Niel Joy Rocklin Marian Ream*
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We thank those donors who have made a gift to Ballet West in memory or in honor of the individuals listed below.
IN MEMORY
In Memory of Ray E. Andersen Sara Andersen
In Memory of Gladys Banks Ballet West
In Memory of Janice Ione Berghout Ann Berghout Austin
In Memory of Bessa Colleen Hansen
In Memory of Earle Robert Bevins III Linda M. Thorn Bevins
In Memory of Megan Leigh Brown Marie Brown
In Memory of Kevin Brown Ballet West Alvin and Gloria Charnes Steve C. Hegerfeld
In Memory of Willam Christensen David Barber and Greg Geilmann
In Memory of Karen Coleman Ballet West
In Memory of Jacqueline Cronsberg Sandra Jennings
In Memory of Donna L. Dell Ballet West
In Memory of Lela and Reid Ellsworth Janet Ellsworth
In Memory of John H. Firmage, Jr. Katherine W. Lamb
In Memory of Deborah Dubinski Flamish Ballet West Guild
In Memory of Mark Fry Ballet West
In Memory of Tony Lazzara Ballet West
In Memory of Dorothy McBride William and Joanne Shiebler
In Memory of Peter Durkee Meldrum Ballet West
In Memory of Jed Moss Ballet West
Betsy Hijazi
In Memory of Lynette Myler Marie Bohata
In Memory of Sara Nelson Brad and Teresa Nolen
In Memory of Emily Johnson Ott Mark Ott
In Memory of Lucy Dodge Poindexter Sandy Dodge
In Memory of Carol Ann Robertson Anonymous
In Memory of Roy W. Ryan Shirley Veit
In Memory of Rulynn Skidmore Andrea Skidmore
In Memory of Steven P. Sondrup Ballet West
In Memory of Walter Stoker Julie Lewis
In Memory of Barbara L. Tanner Ballet West
In Memory of Reagan Tolboe Monte Caldwell Jim and Barbara Clark Kristin Cowan Thomas and Mary McCarthey Dennis Rocheleau The Sam & Diane Stewart Family Foundation Leslie Stone Ballet West Guild
In Memory of David Tundermann Ballet West
In Memory of Walker Wallace Ballet West
In Memory of William Wood Jr. John and Michelle Flynn
In Honor of Bruce Caldwell Kenny and Janeal Hodges
In Honor of Abbigail Carpenter Lynn and Sharee Birrell
In Honor of Peter Christie Joel and Frances Harris
In Honor of Shelly Cordova Ballet West Senior Steps Participants
In Honor of Aerilyn Grotepas Tonya Grotepas
In Honor of Rachael Darden Harper Michael R. and Sheila I. Harper
In Honor of Dr. Joel M. Harris Carolyn and Dennis Bernard
In Honor of Lucas Horns Gordon Irving
In Honor of Madeline Howell Karen Freed
In Honor of Barbara Levy Kipper Melissa Farruggia
In Honor of Alyxandra Luras Melissa Kristen Luras
In Honor of Jennifer Malherbe Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker
In Honor of Sebastian and Costello Mitchell Carol Loucks
In Honor of Joy Rocklin Mary Gootjes and John Davis
In Honor of Nicole Ryujin Ravindra Gangadat
In Honor of Thresa Paige Kathleen Saunders
Alan Saunders
In Honor of Judith C. Scott
Douglas Scott
In Honor of Sadie and Grace Shipp Nathan Shipp
In Honor of Adam Sklute Anonymous
In Honor of Susan Torgesen Smith Joshua Smith
In Honor of Adam Sklute Anonymous
In Honor of Dean and Dina Tilton Carol Ann Saikhon
In Honor of Alexis and Talia Thorum Julie Thorum
In Honor of Melodee Valentine Wendee Valentine
In Honor of Jaclyn Weisenbeck Anonymous
In Honor of Isabel Wilcox Amy Wilcox
In Honor of Wilkes Family Barbara Silberzahn
In Honor of Jared Oaks and the Members of the Ballet West Orchestra
Kenny and Janeal Hodges
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.
• Although masks are not required while attending Ballet West performances for the 2022-23 season, we encourage patrons who wish to wear a mask to do so. If you are feeling unwell, experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or have been in close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, we ask that you follow CDC quarantine and isolation guidelines and prioritize your health and the health of your fellow audience members and stay home. Ballet West reserves the right to change or amend the health policy for performances in the future.
• 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 smoking, eating, or drinking is permitted in the auditorium.
• Lost articles may be claimed at security.
• Anyone expecting emergency calls is urged to leave their seat locations and cell phones with the house manager.
• Please silence all electronic time pieces and cell phones for the period of the performance.
In the event of an emergency, please REMAIN SEATED and listen to information given by management and ushers.
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.
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Liz Crawford, Chief Financial Officer
Misha Eady-Harbold, Director of Company Management & Touring
Felicia Cowan, Director of Human Resources
Teri Percy, Assistant to the Executive Director and Board Liaison
Jennifer Bailey, Senior Accounting Manager
Sophia Ashaboglu, Accounting Coordinator
Pamela Robinson-Harris, Principal Rehearsal Director
Jane Victorine Wood, Interim Principal Rehearsal Director
Calvin Kitten, Director of Ballet West II / Rehearsal Director
Bruce Caldwell, Rehearsal Director and Company Archivist
Reuben Lehr, Artistic Operations Manager/ Assistant to the Artistic Director
Courtney Hellebuyck, Children’s Rehearsal Director
James Payne, Trainee Coordinator
Nicolo Fonte, Resident Choreographer
Jason Hadley, Director of Costume Production
Cindy Farrimond, Costume Shop Manager
Barbara Arcolio, Head Stitcher
Mary Kay Feicht, Vicki Goslin Raincrow, Stitchers
David Heuvel, Director of Costume Production Emeritus
Peter Christie, Director of Education and Outreach
Dana Rossi, Education Associate /Assistant Director, I CAN DO Heather Fryxell, Associate Director, Adaptive Dance Shelly Cordova, Assistant Director, Senior Steps/
Silas Campos, Manager, Education and Outreach Virtual and Technology Programs
Shelly Cordova, Ashley Creek, Lauren Devall, Audrey Dodd, Karen Dodge, Jennifer Heighton, Wendee Fideledey-McCulloch, Moisés Próspero, Nanette Reimschussel-Chertudi, Anne Marie Smith, Elease Stice, Alicia Trump, Ashlee Vilos, Hannah Willis, Trisha Wilstead, Educators
Andrew Goldberg, Senior Director, External Affairs
Dana Rimington, Senior Manager, Communications and Publications
Bretleigh Sandorf, Annual Giving Manager
Austin Anderson, Development Data Manager
Jyn Van Putten, Manager of Foundations and Government Giving Lisa Jensen, Retail Sales and Boutique Manager
Beau Pearson, Photographer and Videographer
Beth Icard, Digital Marketing Coordinator
Matthew Barrett, Graphic Designer Deanna Richardson, Project Manager, External Affairs
BALLET WEST ACADEMY
Evelyn Cisneros-Legate, Director, Ballet West Academy
Sarah Taylor, Director Of Business Operations, Ballet West Academy
Allison DeBona, Principal, Peggy Bergmann Park City Campus
Katherine Lawrence, Principal, Jessie Eccles Quinney Ballet Centre And Trolley Corners Campuses Heather Thackeray, Principal, Barbara Barrington Jones Family Foundation Thanksgiving Point Campus Eunice Stafford, Associate Principal, Trolley Corners Campus
Catherine Batcheller,
Principal Faculty And Artistic Engagement Coordinator
Stacey Mahan, Principal Faculty And Associate Director Of Curriculum
James Payne, Principal Faculty And Trainee Coordinator
Jeffrey Rogers, Principal Faculty And Director Of Academy Men’s Program
Jessica Baynes, Full-Time Faculty
Jordan Debona, Summer Intensive Coordinator Jennifer Hildreth, Senior Academy Operations Manager
Jenny Lowell, Trolley Corners Campus Operations Manager
Rex Tilton, Park City Campus Operations Manager
Hannah Lowell, Sasha Lowell, Samantha Abrahamson, Samantha Gumm, Administrative Assistants
Silver Barkes, Hannah Brandt, Jazz Bynum, Dantzel Cherry, Nanette Reimschussel Chertudi, Natalie Desch, Jennifer Fjeldsted, Sammy Gomm, Tyler Gum, Jake Hancock, Eunice Kim Stafford, Vera Kotova, Justine SheedyKramer, Lindsey Larsen, Deborah Latimer, Stephan Legate, Vinicius Lima, Amber Miller, Jaiden Morley, Bridge Payne, Kendra Rangel, Ashleigh Richardson, Autume Ryskoski, Samira Saeed, Mary Ann Shaefer, Heidi Slagle, Conniec Smith, Kramer Snead, Stefanie Spiece, Kristen Stringham, Scout Sutton, Jessica Hartson Thompson, Rex Tilton, Kristina Weimer, Elizabet Weldon, Bashaun Williams, Nichele Woods, Instructors
Penelope Brown, Lisa Haddon, Jim Kuemmerle, Sarah Lund, Brian Pappal, John Rukavina, Kimball Whitaker, Accompanists
Maggie Wright-Tesch, U Of U/BW Joint Trainee Liaison
Jared Oaks, Music Director Seretta Hart, Orchestra Manager
Nicholas Maughan, Company Pianist
Max Hall, Principal Academy Pianist
Michael Andrew Currey, Director of Production
Michael McCulloch, Production Stage Manager
Angelina Pellini, Stage Manager and Production Operations Coordinator
Robert Clifford, Technical Director / Head Carpenter
Joshua Belka, Assistant Carpenter
James K. Larsen, Head Electrician
Corey Cresswell, Assistant Electrician
Jacquelin Bryce, Wardrobe Supervisor
Emily Fowler, Wardrobe Assistant
Yancey J. Quick, Wig Master
Members of IATSE Local 99 Run of Show Crew
Jack E Stahl, Associate Director of Technology and Ticketing
Natalie Thorpe, Senior Manager of Patron Services
Jane Harris, Patron Services, and Group Sales Lead Advisor, Andrew Wilson, Assistant Manager, Patron Services
Karly Lowry, 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.
THE WILLAM CHRISTENSEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHAIR SPONSORED BY PEGGY BERGMANN
