THE SARASOTA BALLET
Joseph Volpe
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Margaret Barbieri Director Iain Webb Executive Director
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Danielle Brown, Marijana Dominis, Macarena Gimenez, Ricardo Graziano, Maximiliano Iglesias, Ricardo Rhodes, Luke Schaufuss
Junior Principal Character Principal
Richard House Ricki Bertoni
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Arcadian Broad, Marco Alessandro Corcella, Yuki Nonaka, Lauren Ostrander, Anna Pellegrino, Daniel Pratt, Ivan Spitale
Coryphée
Luis Gonzalez, Dominique Jenkins, Emelia Perkins
Corps de Ballet
Sierra Abelardo, Isabella Benton, Mihai Costache, Kennedy Falyn Cassada, Josh Fisk, Willa Frantz, Evan Gorbell, Samuel Gest, Thomas Leprohon, Andrea Marcelletti, Bel Pickering, Morgan Rust, Taylor Sambola-Broad, Gabriella Schultze, Juliano Weber, Paige Young
Apprentices
Anna Victoria Camacho, Javier Gutierrez Cuervo, Israel Ellis, Alessandra Nova, Hailey Stinchcomb, Calen Sutherland, Jessica Templeton
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Savannah Campbell, Tricia Carmody, Wyatt Dodd, Joe Huberty, Ella Lau, Josiah Lax, Riley Putnal, Ezra Schenck, Iosif Trubin, Pearl Smith, Emmanuelle Watkins, Tia Wenkman
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Melissa L. McCoy
Jason W. Ettore
Lauren Stroman Rachael Fisk Katherine Knowles
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Rod Kelly
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Front cover: Macarena Gimenez & Maxamiliano Iglesias in Jerome Robbins' In the Night | Photography by Frank Atura
JOSEPH VOLPE Executive Director
Welcome to At Night, our third Program of the 2022 – 2023 Season and our final performances before the new year.
We open this Program with Sir Frederick Ashton’s cherished holiday classic, Les Patineurs. Ever since its triumphant premiere in London in 1937, it has established itself at the Royal Opera House as a joyous hallmark of the winter season. Eager to share this Victorian-aesthetic ice rink spectacle, Iain transported Les Patineurs to Florida in December of 2008. I trust you will enjoy the return of this dazzling ballet and the technical virtuosity it has to offer.
At Night also features two ballets by Jerome Robbins, a creative icon of dance and stage. First, you’ll witness the Company Premiere of In the Night, a tempestuous reflection on romance through the interactions of three couples in various phases of love. The Program continues with Fancy Free; choreographed and set during the Second World War, a trio of sailors on leave enjoy the night life of a New York City bar, their capricious hijinks in stark contrast with the grim tone of the global conflict of the era. These two works perfectly exemplify Robbins’ capacity to explore emotional and thematic depths while maintaining a crowd-pleasing humor and wit.
We wish you a joyous holiday season—we look forward to welcoming you back to the Season in January of 2023 and ushering in another magnificent year of world-class ballet.
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Sir Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs Ballet Synopsis
It was Constant Lambert, the troubled but inspirational Musical Director of the Vic-Wells Ballet and lover of the young Margot Fonteyn, who suggested that the ballet music from two of the French composer Meyerbeer’s operas, L’Étoile du Nord and the 1849 La Prophète , might furnish the ideal score for a skating ballet in development in 1937. These operas had famously featured a corps de ballet on roller skates, well over a century before Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express !
Ninette de Valois, the young company’s founding director, found herself unable to make headway with the Meyerbeer project, and handed it over to her rising young choreographer, Frederick Ashton, who reciprocated by delivering to her The Rake’s Progress which was proving equally challenging for him. This proved a happy exchange, resulting in a significant landmark work for each dance-maker.
Ashton knew precisely nothing of skating and had never visited an ice-rink in his life, but the delightful ice-skating divertissement he concocted premiered at Sadler’s Wells to great public acclaim, spectacularly demonstrating just how far the nascent British ballet had come in six short years from its inception by de Valois.
The ballet’s premiere benefited from an illustrious cast, with Margot Fonteyn (Ashton’s muse in the late 1930’s) and Robert Helpmann as the pas de deux couple and Harold Turner as the Blue Skater (a role not unrelated, perhaps, to the Blue Bird of the classical The Sleeping Beauty ). It was in this popular success that the dancer Michael Somes first made his mark, attracting notice with his spectacularly impressive elevation, as the leading dancer and Ashton inspiration he was to become.
The Frederick Ashton Foundation exists to enrich the legacy of Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988) and his ballets. The Ashton ballets performed this season as some of over one hundred ballets created by Sir Frederick Ashton TM. The Frederick Ashton Foundation, a registered charity working independently of, but in close association with, The Royal ballet, exists to enrich the legacy of Frederick Ashton TM and his Ballets. For further information, please go to www.frederickashton.org.uk.
Les Patineurs score performed by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.
Program 3 | At Night
Jerome Robbins' In the Night Ballet Synopsis
A starry evening in a park or a terrace off a ballroom. A piano plays a Chopin nocturne as a couple enters, dances, and slowly leaves. Another couple enters and dances to another nocturne, then a third couple to a third nocturne. Finally, the three couples stroll in, exchange brief greetings and leave. This is all that happens in Jerome Robbins’ In the Night , but just as each nocturne presents a small world in itself, so the dances of the three couples encompass a surprising range of relationships.
In this way while little occurs, much is suggested in this third of Robbins’ five ballets to the music of Chopin. Choreographed in 1970 for New York City Ballet, it followed by a year his groundbreaking Dances at a Gathering , a ballet that marked Robbins’ definitive return to NYCB after years spent working in musical theatre and with his own company. In the Night reflects a more sophisticated milieu, both more formal and more personal, but what Robbins, who was famously reticent about explaining his ballets, said about Dances at a Gathering , that “it’s about relationships,” is equally true of In the Night .
How different from his first ballet to Chopin, the sly and often broad comedy of The Concert, while his last two, each a pas de deux, retain the formality of In the Night without its deeper implications. In the Night is also notable in using only nocturnes, a form that Chopin borrowed from the composer John Field and reworked in particularly personal ways, slowly developing an intimate atmosphere, often with an element of surprise before a return to the mood of the beginning. As Chopin’s 21 nocturnes, many of them technically demanding, extended both the expressive powers of the genre and of the piano, so did Robbins with dance in this emotionally suggestive ballet supported only by the piano.
Performed by permission of The Robbins Rights TrustProgram 3 | At Night
Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free Ballet Synopsis
The American ‘30s and ‘40s produced a dynamic, creative dance synergy between Broadway, Hollywood and the emergent American ballet and modern dance movements. As witnessed in the careers of George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille and especially Jerome Robbins, who moved smoothly between them, they developed an articulate, distinctive and entirely American style in all three genres.
Fancy Free proposes a trio of boisterous sailors on leave in wartime Manhattan, out for a good time and romance: a tale of flirtation, bars and bragging, as three men compete for two girls, each sailor offering a dance variation (galop, waltz and danzon). Eventually, the girls abandon the men to fight it out, leaving them to have another convivial drink and chase after a new girl. It’s a bonhomous episode of liberty, in a world at war, with the sailors’ rivalry and revelry defined by their comradeship.
Robbins’ original inspiration came from Paul Cadmus’ 1934 painting The Fleet’s In! although he admitted his ballet takes a more lighthearted view. It was Robbins who commissioned designs from Oliver Smith and music from the then little-known Bernstein. Robbins danced in the triumphant premiere, and then developed Fancy Free into a hit Broadway musical On The Town (1945) with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who was rooming with Bernstein at the time.
The show became an iconic 1949 MGM film musical starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Vera-Ellen, although only four of Bernstein’s original songs were used. What Jerome Robbins and such American dancemaking contemporaries as Eugene Loring and Agnes de Mille created was a distinctively all-American ballet style that brought together recognizable plots and characters, dynamic music, folk or social dance and classical technique.
Performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust Scene supervision by Rosaria Sinsi
Fancy Free score performed by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner.
Les Patineurs
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer Music Arranged by Constant Lambert Design by William Chappell Lighting Recreated by Ethan Vail Staged by Margaret Barbieri & Iain Webb Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
First Performed by The Vic-Wells Ballet (The Royal Ballet) March 16, 1937 First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet December 19, 2008
INTERMISSION
Friday Evening
In The Night
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Costume Design by Sir Anthony Dowell
Lighting Design by Jennifer Tipton
Lighting Recreated by Les Dickert Staged by Ben Huys
Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
Solo Pianist Cameron Grant
First Performed by New York City Ballet January 29, 1970
First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet December 16, 2022
INTERMISSION
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Set Design by Oliver Smith Costume Design by Kermit Love Lighting Design by Ronald Bates Lighting Recreated by Ethan Vail Staged by Philip Neal Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
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Les Patineurs
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer Music Arranged by Constant Lambert Design by William Chappell Lighting Recreated by Ethan Vail Staged by Margaret Barbieri & Iain Webb Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
First Performed by The Vic-Wells Ballet (The Royal Ballet) March 16, 1937 First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet December 19, 2008
INTERMISSION
Saturday Matinee
In The Night
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Frédéric Chopin Costume Design by Sir Anthony Dowell
Lighting Design by Jennifer Tipton
Lighting Recreated by Les Dickert Staged by Ben Huys
Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins Solo Pianist Cameron Grant
First Performed by New York City Ballet January 29, 1970
First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet December 16, 2022
INTERMISSION
Saturday Matinee
Fancy Free
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Set Design by Oliver Smith Costume Design by Kermit Love Lighting Design by Ronald Bates Lighting Recreated by Ethan Vail Staged by Philip Neal Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
First Performed by Ballet Theatre April 18, 1944
First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet April 28, 2017
Sailor 1 Yuki Nonaka
Sailor 2 Ricardo Graziano
Sailor 3 Maximiliano Iglesias
Secretary Taylor Sambola-Broad
Hairdresser Macarena Gimenez
3rd Woman Anna Pellegrino
Bartender Daniel Pratt
Les Patineurs
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer Music Arranged by Constant Lambert
Design by William Chappell Lighting Recreated by Ethan Vail Staged by Margaret Barbieri & Iain Webb
Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
First Performed by The Vic-Wells Ballet (The Royal Ballet) March 16, 1937 First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet December 19, 2008
Yuki Nonaka
Sierra Abelardo Emelia Perkins
Blue Boy Blue Girls White Couple
Danielle Brown Ricardo Graziano
Red Girls Brown Couples
Lauren Ostrander Willa Frantz
Kennedy Falyn Cassada Evan Gorbell
Paige Young Mihai Costache
INTERMISSION
Dominique Jenkins Josh Fisk
Anna Pellegrino Daniel Pratt
In The Night
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Costume Design by Sir Anthony Dowell
Lighting Design by Jennifer Tipton
Lighting Recreated by Les Dickert Staged by Ben Huys
Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
Solo Pianist Cameron Grant
First Performed by New York City Ballet January 29, 1970
First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet December 16, 2022
INTERMISSION
Fancy Free
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Set Design by Oliver Smith Costume Design by Kermit Love Lighting Design by Ronald Bates Lighting Recreated by Ethan Vail Staged by Philip Neal Conducted by Ormsby Wilkins
First Performed by Ballet Theatre April 18, 1944
First Performed by The Sarasota Ballet April 28, 2017
Sailor 1 Arcadian Broad
Sailor 2 Luke Schaufuss
Sailor 3 Richard House
Secretary Dominique Jenkins
Hairdresser Danielle Brown
3rd Woman Lauren Ostrander
Bartender Daniel Pratt
VIOLIN
Daniel Jordan, concertmaster
Christopher Takeda, associate concertmaster Jennifer Best Takeda, assistant concertmaster
Michael Turkell, principal second Meghan Jones, assistant principal second Felicia Brunelle
Léna Cambis
Anne Chandra Carlann Evans Chung-Yon Hong Mia Laity
Milene Moriera Amanda Nix Margot Zarzycka Whitelaw
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Rachel Halvorson, principal Matthew Pegis, assistant principal Camila Berg Nathan Frantz
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Natalie Helm, principal Christopher Schnell, assistant principal Isabelle Besançon Nadine Trudel
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John Price, principal Michael Nigrin, assistant principal
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Betsy Hudson Traba, principal James Zellers
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James Zellers
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Jonathan Gentry, principal Nicholas Arbolino
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Program 3 | At Night
ORMSBY WILKINS Guest ConductorA native of Sydney, Australia, Ormsby Wilkins joined American Ballet Theatre as its Music Director in November 2005.
After taking his music studies at the Conservatories of Sydney and Melbourne, Wilkins joined The Australian Ballet and became resident conductor in 1982. Moving to Europe in 1983, he was appointed conductor with England’s Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (now called the Birmingham Royal Ballet).
Wilkins continued his association with The Australian Ballet, having been invited to guest on many occasions for its extensive engagements, which have included those in the United States, Russia, and London, England. Other international engagements have included La Scala, Milan, the Rome Opera Ballet, the Ballet of Teatro San Carlo of Naples, and the Royal Swedish Ballet. In 2001 he spent three months in Italy conducting once again at La Scala and making his debuts in both Genoa and at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. Most recently, Wilkins has also made guest appearances with The Sarasota Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Miami City Ballet.
Wilkins has conducted many orchestras around the world, both in association with ballet and in concert. They include the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras of London, the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, and National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa.
CAMERON GRANT Guest Pianist
Cameron Grant is recently retired after 37 years with the New York City Ballet. As a solo pianist, he performed a vast repertoire for solo piano for the Company including many works by Balanchine and Robbins, and toured with the company across the globe. A renowned collaborative pianist, he spent five years touring with James Winn as half of the Grant-Winn piano duo, and was a member of the New York New Music Ensemble. In 2004, he won an Emmy Award and was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center Honors with three other members of the New York City Ballet for President Bush.
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Gifts are current as of December 8, 2022. Gifts and pledges (of $500 or more) received after this date will be recognized in future Performance Programs.
Institutional Support
Foundation & Public Support
$100,000+
Florida Department of State, Division of Arts & Culture
$50,000+
Alfred & Ann Goldstein Foundation
Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation
Community Foundation of Sarasota County
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Phillip & Janice Levin Foundation
Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax
The Shubert Foundation
Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
$20,000+
Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
Lela D. Jackson Foundation for the Arts
The Patterson Foundation
$10,000+
Bank of America Client Foundation
Charles Henry Leach II Fund for Duquesne University
Designing Women Boutique
National Endowment for the Arts
The Exchange
$5,000+
Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation
Jerome Robbins Foundation
Muriel O’Neil Fund Endowment
Suncoast Credit Union Foundation
$1,000+
Annette J. Hagens Memorial Foundation
Fay A. Schweim Memorial Children’s Dance Fund
Gilbert Waters Charitable Fund
The Gulf Coast Italian Culture Society
Joan Armour Mendell Foundation
Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s
Women’s Outreach Ministry, Church of the Redeemer
Additional Support Provided by
Florida State University
The Leda Freedman Fund
Corporate Partners
Corporate Principal Circle $10,000 + Assured Guarantee
BMO
Morton’s Gourmet Market
Corporate Platinum Circle $5,000-$7,499
1st Source Bank
Fifth Third Bank
LifeWorx
Michael’s On East Peter J. Laughlin Serbin
So Danca
Williams Parker
Corporate Golden Circle $2,500-$4,999
Beneva Weddings & Events
Concierge Medical Services
Eurotech Cabinetry
Freed of London Mariner Wealth Advisors Selva Grill White Oaks Wealth Advisors
Corporate Silver Circle- $1,000-$2,499
Cumberland Advisors
Morgan Stanley, Susan T. Wilson
Additional Support Provided by The Benevity Community Impact Fund
Cyber Grants
SolMart Media
Total Wine & More
THE SARASOTA BALLET BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2022 - 2023 Season
OFFICERS
Richard S. Johnson
Frank Martucci
Sandra DeFeo Pat Kenny
Jonathan Strickland Coleman Maureen Steiner
TRUSTEES
Board Chair President Board Vice Chair Treasurer Secretary Governance
Peggy Abt
Ginger Cannon Bailey
Isabel Anchin Becker
Paul Cantor
Lynda Doery Bill Farber
Patricia A. Golemme
Julie A. Harris
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen Phil Lombardo
Peter B. Miller Rosemary Oberndorf Mercedita OConnor Audrey Robbins Jan Sirota Hillary Steele Jean Weiller David Welle Charles Wilson
FOUNDER / CHAIR EMERITA Jean Weidner Goldstein
CHAIR EMERITA Sydney Goldstein CHAIR EMERITA Hillary Steele
HONORARY TRUSTEES ADVISORY COUNCIL
Mark Famiglio Dr. Bart PriceGinger Cannon Bailey, Trustee & Chair, Advisory Committee
Maryann Armour William Chapman
Jan Farber
Laura A. Feder
Frances D. Fergusson
Marnie Grossman
Dr. Amy L. Harding
Mary Kay Henson
Charlie Huisking
Robin Klein-Strauss
Peter E. Kretzmer
Karen Lichtig Tina Lieberman Richard March
Joan Mathews
Donna Maytham
Linda Mitchell
Dr. Joel Morganroth Gini Peltz
Kimberley Anne Pelyk Marilynn Petrillo
Rose Marie Proietti Richard Segall Micki Sellman
Lois Stulberg Melliss Kenworthy Swenson
Marcia Jean Taub Clara Reynardus de Villaneuva