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The 2022 – 2023 Season
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The 2022 – 2023 Season
WELCOME TO THE NEW SEASON Welcome to The Sarasota Ballet’s 2022 – 2023 Season. We are delighted to present the extraordinary programs we have prepared for you this Season. From prestigious Company Premieres to beloved revivals, and exhilarating World Premieres, we continue to raise the bar and attain new and exciting achievements to bring you the finest artistic experience at The Sarasota Ballet. Program 1 launches the Season with a trio of World Premieres. New works by Company Dancers Ricardo Graziano (Resident Choreographer) and Richard House will pair with a premiere from choreographer Gemma Bond. This invigorating program marks the first time the Company will work with Bond. Two great choreographic masters, Sir Kenneth MacMillan and Sir Frederick Ashton form the basis of Program 2, with the Company Premieres of MacMillan’s Danses Concertantes and Ashton’s Dante Sonata joined by the return of Ashton’s vibrant Rhapsody. Program 3 will close 2022 with three ballets, all of which take place under the cover of night. The joyful and playful natures of Ashton’s Les Patinuers and Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free are beautifully juxtaposed to the poignant and emotional choreography of the Company Premiere of Jerome Robbins’ In The Night. Program 4 introduces audiences to two World Premieres and the return of Ashton’s beloved Façade. The renowned Jessica Lang premieres a new work—which receives its World Premiere as a part of The Sarasota Ballet’s August 2022 residency at the Joyce Theater—alongside Company Dancer Arcadian Broad’s first ballet for the Company. With Program 5 we continue our tradition of presenting as we welcome back to Sarasota the world-renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem. Program 6 is the Company Premiere of one of the world’s oldest surviving ballets, La Sylphide. Johan Kobborg’s production of August Bournonville’s seminal full length romantic ballet is considered one of the preeminent versions and has been performed across the world by companies including The Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. The Season comes to a close with Program 7’s celebration of George Balanchine’s enduring legacy and commemorates the 40th Anniversary of his passing. Featuring a triple bill of his works, the program aims to give audiences a snapshot of his remarkable choreographic range and depth. We hope you will join us this coming Season for another year of breathtaking ballets and world-class artistry.
Iain Webb - Director
Joseph Volpe - Executive Director
Margaret Barbieri - Assistant Director
Danielle Brown & Ricardo Rhodes Photography Matthew Holler
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THE SARASOTA BALLET STRATEGIC PLAN The Strategic Plan, which launched in 2020, outlines a three year comprehensive strategy to strengthen all aspects of the organization while planning for the future of the Company. Together with our leadership, we are looking to expand our artistic footprint, embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, build increasingly loyal and supportive audiences, and prepare for our future through long-term financial planning. The Sarasota Ballet enters the next decade poised for growth and development in all aspects of the organization. The Sarasota Ballet has become one of the nation’s most exciting ballet companies. With an extensive repertoire of over 160 ballets and divertissements including 44 world premieres and 56 internationally renowned choreographers, the Company has achieved national and international critical acclaim. The Ballet maintains an annual budget of approximately $9.7 million through earned revenue (32%) and contributions (68%), and produces a season of approximately 30 performances across 3 venues in Sarasota and a touring schedule that varies each season to prestigious venues across the nation. The Sarasota Ballet operates nationally recognized education programs through The Sarasota Ballet School and The Margaret Barbieri Conservatory and maintains a Community Engagement platform offering over 80 community activities annually. SPOTLIGHT ON STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS: ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING
Expand our footprint in Southwest Florida and the Northeastern United States through implementation of robust artistic programs featuring dancers and choreographers of the highest quality for diverse and expanding audiences.
EDUCATION
Provide internationally recognized education programs enhanced with teacher certification, program development, and excellence in education for students of all ages.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
AUDIENCE EXPANSION
FUTURE INITIATIVES
Build expansive community partnerships and develop free and low-cost programs that engage all individuals in the joy of dance. Expand the ways that people experience, connect with, and support The Sarasota Ballet through new leadership programs, new patron experiences, and outreach programs that welcome and inspire new audiences. Develop long-term plans for future initiatives including financial planning for an endowment, touring, facility improvements, and further audience expansion.
MISSION & VISION MISSION
We enrich lives, captivate emotions, and strengthen community through the art of dance. VISION
To infuse our community with the highest quality and diversity of dance in America.
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Lauren Ostrander Photography Matthew Holler
The 2022 – 2023 Season
THE SEASON PREMIERES October 21 – 23, 2022 | FSU Center for the Performing Arts Program 1, performing October 21 – 23 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, opens The Sarasota Ballet’s 2022 – 2023 Season with a triple bill of World Premieres. Ricardo Graziano, Richard House, and Gemma Bond each present a World Premiere one-act ballet to catalyze the spirit of creativity and artistry to carry through the entirety of the Season. More details on these three exciting new ballets to be revealed soon! WORLD PREMIERE Choreography by Richard House Music to be announced
WORLD PREMIERE Choreography by Gemma Bond Music to be announced
WORLD PREMIERE Choreography by Ricardo Graziano Music to be announced
EXPRESSIONS November 18 – 19, 2022 | Sarasota Opera House Highlighting the contributions of two great leaders of The Royal Ballet, Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Program 2 brings together three powerful ballets, including two Company Premieres, to the Sarasota Opera House Stage on November 18 and 19. First, the Company Premiere of MacMillan’s Danses Concertantes serves as a tribute to the choreographer following the 30th anniversary of his passing. Next, Ashton’s potent Dante Sonata, also a Company Premiere, represents an uncommonly bleak scene, created during the early stages of the Second World War as a reflection on the futility of conflict. Closing with a complete thematic inversion, Ashton’s Rhapsody dazzles with exquisite detail and virtuoso technique. DANSES CONCERTANTES (Company Premiere) Choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan Music by Igor Stravinsky
DANTE SONATA (Company Premiere) Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Franz Liszt
RHAPSODY Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Marijana Dominis & Ricardo Graziano Photography Matthew Holler
The 2022 – 2023 Season
THE SEASON AT NIGHT December 16 – 17, 2022 | Sarasota Opera House This trio of ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton and Jerome Robbins paint a picture of worlds meeting and departing against a juxtaposition of circumstances. In Ashton’s Les Patineurs, the bright and joyous scene of ice skaters passing each other on a frozen pond against the darkened foliage mirrors the complexities of relationships in the Company Premiere of Jerome Robbins’ In the Night. The dancers’ interactions act as points of adoration, intensity, and contention under a blanket of stars. Closing the program is the return of Robbins’ Fancy Free, where the flirtatious antics of three boisterous sailors on leave posture the jovial feelings of freedom against the severe reality of a world at war. LES PATINEURS Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer
IN THE NIGHT (Company Premiere) Choreography by Jerome Robbins Music by Frederic Chopin
FANCY FREE Choreography by Jerome Robbins Music by Leonard Bernstein
IN REP January 27 – 30, 2023 | FSU Center for the Performing Arts The Sarasota Ballet bounds forward into 2023 with a thrilling mix of the historic and the novel. Performing January 27 – 30 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, Program 4 commences with a World Premiere by Company Dancer Arcadian Broad, who has gained recognition for choreographing ballets for Orlando Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and DanceWorks Chicago. Next, acclaimed choreographer Jessica Lang presents her latest ballet, a World Premiere created on The Sarasota Ballet for the Company’s August tour of the Joyce Theater. The program closes with a beloved Ashton favorite—Façade, a series of dance vignettes summarized as a perfect marriage of high art and sheer enjoyment, with a generous dash of genteel camp. WORLD PREMIERE Choreography by Arcadian Broad Music to be announced
WORLD PREMIERE Choreography by Jessica Lang Music to be announced
FAÇADE Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Arcadian Broad Photography Matthew Holler
The 2022 – 2023 Season
THE SEASON DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM February 24 – 27, 2023 | FSU Center for the Performing Arts Continuing a tradition of hosting a major dance company for the Sarasota community to experience, The Sarasota Ballet’s Program 5 features the presentation of the world-renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts from February 24 – 27. Called “one of ballet’s most exciting undertakings” by The New York Times, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company, founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, presents a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century. The 18-member, multi-ethnic company performs a forward-thinking repertoire that includes treasured classics, neoclassical works by George Balanchine and Resident Choreographer Robert Garland, as well as innovative contemporary works that use the language of ballet as a celebration of Mitchell’s belief that ballet belongs to everyone.
LA SYLPHIDE March 24 – 25, 2023 | Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall The 2022 – 2023 Season’s Program 6 sees The Sarasota Ballet take to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall stage on March 24 and 25 for Johan Kobborg’s production of August Bournonville’s iconic full-length romantic ballet with La Sylphide. A crown jewel of Danish ballet, Bournonville’s La Sylphide premiered on November 28, 1836 at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark; the ballet recounts a narrative of a Scottish man, betrothed to a local woman, becoming entranced by the vision of a sylph, and the ensuing chaos as he is torn between two romances. Kobborg’s production preserves the source material’s dramatic potency while reinvigorating the choreography and designs and maintaining a thoroughly Danish flair. This production has become one of the preeminent versions of Bournonville’s ballet and has been performed by companies across the world including The Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. LA SYLPHIDE (Company Premiere) Choreography by Johann Kobborg after August Bournonville Music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold
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The 2022 – 2023 Season
THE SEASON TRIBUTE TO BALANCHINE April 28 – 29, 2023 | Sarasota Opera House In honor of the iconic choreographer George Balanchine and marking the 40th anniversary of his passing, The Sarasota Ballet’s Program 7 features a trio of Balanchine ballets to be performed at the Sarasota Opera House April 28 and 29. The program opens with Divertimento No. 15, choreographed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s eponymous music and described by dance critic and historian Alastair Macaulay as, “resplendent in line, dazzling in speed, calm in phrasing, tingling in musical precision.” Next, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments abstractly expresses the “four humours” theory from early medicine in a striking five-movement display of pure dance, with orchestration by Paul Hindemith. Program 7 closes with the joyous return of Balanchine’s Western Symphony, a charming tribute to “spaghetti Westerns” and the cowboy escapades popularized through media in the 1950s. This Program demonstrates Balanchine’s remarkable musicality and thematic diversity, key elements which contributed to his significance as a choreographic icon in American ballet. DIVERTIMENTO NO. 15 Choreography by George Balanchine Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS Choreography by George Balanchine Music by Paul Hindemith
WESTERN SYMPHONY Choreography by George Balanchine Music arrangement by Hershy Kay
GALA Sunday, April 30, 2023 | Sarasota Opera House Save the date! We hope you will join us for this extraordinary evening featuring a live performance by The Sarasota Ballet and an exquisite dinner catered by Michael’s on East. The 32nd Season Gala will raise important funds for the artistic, education, and community programs of The Sarasota Ballet. Additional programming details will be announced later in the year.
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TICKETS & SUBSCRIPTIONS FULL SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS Full Season Subscriptions start from $266. A Full Season Subscription includes all 7 remarkable programs of the 2022 – 2023 Season and is the best way to experience the critically acclaimed Sarasota Ballet. From extraordinary World Premieres, through beloved audience favorites such as George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, to Company premiere of Sir Frederick Ashton’s Dante Sonata, with a Full Season Subscription you won’t miss a single step. Full Season Subscribers receive the following benefits: •
Concierge Service - Personally called from the Box Office Staff for renewal
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Priority Seating - Guaranteed seats for the following season when you renew
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Ticket Discounts - 15% discount for renewals & 5% discount on additional tickets
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Payment Plans - Take advantage of 3 or 5 month payment options
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Exchanges - Complimentary exchanges from within the same program
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Mailing - Complimentary ticket mailing
How To Purchase Current Full Season Subscribers can already begin renewing their subscription. Renewing Subscriber’s seats from the 2021 – 2022 Season’s performances will already be reserved and saved for you. Contact The Sarasota Ballet Box Office, where our team will personally walk you through our renewal process so that you can sit back and enjoy world-class ballet for another Season. New Full Season Subscriptions are available now. To become a new subscriber, you can either visit our website SarasotaBallet.org or contact The Sarasota Ballet Box Office where our team will help you create a personalized Full Season Subscription.
FLEX FOUR BALLET SUBSCRIPTION
Flex Four Ballet Subscriptions start from $120. Available June 20, 2022
Whether you are a seasonal visitor or can only attend a few performances, the Flex Four Ballet Subscription allows you to choose the four programs and performance dates that work best for you. •
Ticket Discounts - 5% discount on all tickets in your subscription & on additional tickets within your subscription
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Exchanges - Complimentary exchanges from within the same program
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Mailing - Complimentary ticket mailing
How To Purchase Flex Four Ballet Subscriptions are on sale beginning June 20, 2022. To become a subscriber, you can either visit our website SarasotaBallet.org or contact The Sarasota Ballet Box Office where our team will help you create a tailor-made Flex Four Ballet Subscription.
The 2022 – 2023 Season
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TICKETS & SUBSCRIPTIONS LIVE MUSIC SERIES Live Music Series Subscriptions start from $120. Available June 20, 2022 Our new Live Music Series Subscription includes our 4 Programs at the Opera House and the Van Wezel. This new subscription brings world-class ballet, exciting guest conductors, the Sarasota Orchestra, and renowned composers to Downtown Sarasota. •
Ticket Discounts - 5% discount on all tickets in your subscription & on additional tickets within your subscription
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Exchanges - Complimentary exchanges from within the same program
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Mailing - Complimentary ticket mailing
How To Purchase Live Music Series Subscriptions are on sale beginning June 20, 2022. To become a subscriber, you can either visit our website SarasotaBallet.org or contact The Sarasota Ballet Box Office where our team will help you create a customized Live Music Series Subscription.
SINGLE TICKETS Single Tickets start from $35. Available August 8, 2022 Experience The Sarasota Ballet with your choice of 7 programs and multiple performance dates. How To Purchase Single tickets will be available August 8, 2022. Single Tickets can be purchased online at SarasotaBallet.org, by calling The Sarasota Ballet Box Office, or in-person at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts during business hours.
THE SARASOTA BALLET BOX OFFICE 941.359.0099 Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm FSU Center for the Performing Arts 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34243 SarasotaBallet.org Rod Kelly Box Office & House Manager boxoffice@sarasotaballet.org
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BECOME A PATRON A deeper connection to The Sarasota Ballet begins right here.
Join us as a contributing member for the 2022 – 2023 Season and receive special benefits throughout the year. Benefits include, but are not limited to: •
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Recognition in Season Program Book and Encore! Annual Magazine
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And so much more!
To learn more or to make a gift to The Sarasota Ballet, please visit our website at SarasotaBallet.org or contact Development Director, Lauren Stroman at 941.225.6510 or lstroman@sarasotaballet.org
YOUR GIFT AT WORK Gifts to The Sarasota Ballet are tax-deductible and support our performance, education, and community engagement programs. Your generous support—over and above your subscription— allows The Sarasota Ballet to continue to bring world-class performances and accessible arts education to our community. Your tax-deductible contribution will support:
Outstanding Education: • The Margaret Barbieri Conservatory • The Sarasota Ballet School • Summer Intensive • Summer Camps • Adult Workshops
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The Sarasota Ballet is pleased to launch Dance for All! a pilot initiative designed to provide access and opportunity for thousands of individuals in the Greater Sarasota community to participate in the performing arts.
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World-Class Artistry: • Extraordinary Depth of Repertoire • Live Orchestra Accompaniment • National Company Tours • Guest Artists • Visiting Dance Companies
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Engaging Community Programs - Dance for All: • Dance – The Next Generation • Joyful Movement Through Parkinson’s • Silver Swans® • Public School Performances and Programs • Community Performances • Free Lectures, Tickets, and Tours
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DANCE EXTRAS INTRODUCING RELEVÉ SOCIETY Relevé Society is a social program dedicated to building younger audiences for The Sarasota Ballet. Through a range of program offerings, Relevé members will connect directly with artists, staff, and the leaders who make up The Sarasota Ballet. Opportunities include invitations to events, discounted tickets, and so much more! For more information, please contact Events & Engagement Manager, Rachael Fisk at 941.225.6519 or rfisk@sarasotaballet.org
FRIENDS OF THE SARASOTA BALLET The Friends of The Sarasota Ballet champion the Company throughout the region. Through their events and volunteer work, they act as the heart of The Sarasota Ballet community, forming close bonds through a mutual love of ballet. Showcase Luncheons and Events Friends Showcase Luncheons and events are held in a variety of locations and are open to both members and guests. Each luncheon and event features a program designed to enhance your understanding of the inner workings of the Company and, in addition, give you the opportunity to interact with other people who share your enthusiasm for The Sarasota Ballet. Volunteer Opportunities Whether you wish to lend your computer expertise, become a guide for backstage tours, mentor our Dance – The Next Generation students, or simply share your love and enthusiasm with the rest of the community, there are so many ways for you to get involved! Become a Friend! To learn more about the Friends of The Sarasota Ballet, events, or volunteer opportunities, please visit our website or call Membership Chair, Betty Ferguson at 917.885.4699
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Officers Richard S. Johnson Board Chair Sandra DeFeo Vice Chair Frank Martucci President Pat Kenny Treasurer Jonathan Strickland Coleman Secretary Maureen Steiner Governance Trustees Peggy Abt Ginger Cannon Bailey Isabel Anchin Becker Paul Cantor Lynda Doery Bill Farber Patricia 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 Honorary Trustees Jean Weidner Goldstein Founder/Chair Emerita Sydney Goldstein Chair Emerita Hillary Steele Chair Emerita Mark Famiglio Dr. Bart Price
ADVISORY COUNCIL Ginger Cannon Bailey Trustee & Chair, Advisory Committee
Maryann Armour Lisa Binkley William Chapman Jan Farber Laura A. Feder Frances D. Fergusson Marnie Grossman Dr. Amy L. Harding Mary Kay Henson Charles 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 A. Pelyk Marilynn Petrillo Rose Marie Proietti Richard Segall Marilyn Sellman Lois Stulberg Melliss Kenworthy Swenson Marcia Jean Taub Clara Reynardus de Villanueva
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