A Tribute to Peace

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We are thrilled to present in partnership with Texas Ballet Theater A Tribute to Peace – North Texas Welcomes Kyiv City Ballet. This neo-classical work, choreographed by Ekaterina Kozlova and Ivan Kozlov, comes to Bass Hall as part of a new tour for the Kyiv City Ballet, marking the company’s first performances in the United States and the only tour stop in Texas.

The day before Ukraine was invaded in February, the Kyiv City Ballet unknowingly took one of the last flights out of Kyiv. The company flew to Paris to begin a long-planned tour. They have not returned home. The country of France sheltered them and the company has been performing a range of ballets throughout France, Europe, and now the United States, since the invasion began. What a demonstration of the resilience of the people of Ukraine.

Performing Arts Fort Worth is honored to welcome this incredible, brave company here on the Bass Performance Hall stage along with our presenting partner, Texas Ballet Theater. We recognize the unique time this is in our nation and our world, and we look forward to seeing a celebration of peace and hospitality through the pieces in this program.

The Texas Ballet Theater family welcomes Kyiv City Ballet to North Texas with open arms. We have looked forward to sharing the stage with this resilient company and are excited to celebrate these extraordinary dancers tonight. While we have been brought together by challenging circumstances, this collaboration shows how the universal language of ballet can unite people from all over the world.

The Kyiv City Ballet’s mission is to bring joy to audiences through ballet by bringing exemplary artists to theatres around the world. In the past decade, the company has successfully toured throughout dozens of countries on four continents.

Dione Kennedy President & CEO Performing Arts Fort Worth

Tim O’Keefe Acting Artistic Director Texas Ballet Theater

Vanessa Logan Executive Director Texas Ballet Theater

We hope you enjoy the performance!

PERFORMING

ARTS FORT WORTH AND TEXAS BALLET THEATER ARE PROUD TO PRESENT IN PARTNERSHIP

A Tribute to Peace

NORTH TEXAS WELCOMES

Performances by Texas Ballet Theater (in Alphabetical Order)

Esmeralda Pas de Deux

Music by: Riccardo Drigo Choreography by: Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. Performed by: Rieko Hatato and David Schrenk

Three Preludes

Music by: Sergei Rachmaninoff Choreography by: Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. Performed by: Nicole Von Enck and Carl Coomer

Performances by Kyiv City Ballet (in Alphabetical Order)

Classical Suite

Music by: Ludwig Minkus Choreography by: Marius Petipa, Ivan Kozlov Paquita Pas de Deux: Kristina Kadashevych, Danyil Podhrushko

La Bayadere Pas de Deux: Oksana Bondarenko, Ivan Avdijevski Don Quixote Pas de Deux: Kateryna Chebykina, Vsevolod Maievskyi. And artists of the Kyiv City Ballet

Men of Kyiv

Music by: Traditional Ukrainian Folk Music Choreography by: Pavlo Virsky Performed by: Volodymr Bulkiev, Mykola Chebotarov, Vladyslav Dobshynskyi, Nazar Korniichuk, Oleksandr Moroz, Zhan-Mishel Panchuk, Danyil Podhrushko, Yevhenii Sheremet, Mykhailo Shcherbakov, Vlad Surdu

Tribute to Peace

Music: Edward Elgar Choreography: Ivan Kozlov, Ekaterina Kozlova Performed by: Artists of the Kyiv City Ballet This ballet was created especially by Kyiv City Ballet for the USA 2022 tour.

Kyiv City Ballet

KATERYNA

VSEVOLOD MAIEVSKYI

KRISTINA KADASHEVYCH

OKSANA BONDARENKO

VLADYSLAV DOBSHYNSKYI

KATERYNA CHEBYKINA

Kateryna Chebykina was born in Kyiv in 1993. Graduated from the Kiev State Ballet School (class of Marina Dobryakova). As a student, she was awarded grants from the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine and the President of Ukraine. After graduation, Kateryna was a soloist with the National Shevchenko Opera of Ukraine, performing many of the principal roles in the theatre’s repertoire. Later, she worked at the Mariinsky Theatre as a leading soloist, performing roles such as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Kitri in Don Quixote, and the Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, as well as countless others. Kateryna has received numerous international awards and won several international ballet competitions. She is renowned for her artistry and elegance.

VSEVOLOD MAIEVSKYI

Vsevolod was educated at the Kyiv State Ballet School. During his studies, he was a private student of Ivan Kozlov. After graduation, he studied at the Ellison Ballet in New York City. He has won several international awards and competitions, including a gold medal at the international competition, Grand Prix Kyiv. He has performed many leading roles in such ballets as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Le Corsaire. Vsevolod worked at the Mariinsky Theatre and is currently working at the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden.

KRISTINA KADASHEVYCH

Kristina is one of the most well-known ballerinas in Ukraine. She began her professional career at the Kharkiv National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet

and quickly rose through the ranks to leading soloist. Kristina has danced almost all principal roles in the classical repertoire, such as Marie in the Nutcracker, Giselle in Giselle, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She has a unique way of moving the audience with her emotional performances and delicate lines. Kristina is especially enchanting in her gravity-defying pas de deux.

OKSANA BONDARENKO

Oksana is one of the most acclaimed dancers in Ukraine. She began working at the Kyiv Opera Theatre and immediately began performing principal roles. Oksana received the title Honored Artist of Ukraine. She was also one of the founding members of the Kyiv City Ballet. In this time, she has performed every leading role in the company repertoire. Oksana’s lightness shines through every piece she dances.

VLADYSLAV DOBSHYNSKYI

Vladyslav graduated from the School of Culture and Arts in Kryvyi Rih and later from the Serge Lifar College of Choreographic Arts. After graduation he began work at the Dnipro Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet and performed much of the repertoire. Later, Vladyslav worked at the Kyiv Modern Ballet. During this time, he began choreographing his first works. Since joining Kyiv City Ballet, Vladyslav has performed principal roles in the contemporary repertoire. Thoughts was especially created for the Kyiv City Ballet 2022 USA tour by Vladyslav.

Texas Ballet Theater

BEN STEVENSON, O.B.E, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE | CHOREOGRAPHER

Ben Stevenson, a native of Portsmouth, England, received his dance training at the Arts and Educational School in London. He appeared with the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet where, as a principal dancer, he performed lead roles in all the classics. He has received numerous awards for his choreography, including three gold medals at the International Ballet Competitions. For his contributions to international dance, Mr. Stevenson was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) by Queen Elizabeth II in December 1999. In April 2000, he was presented with the Dance Magazine Award. In 2018, Mr. Stevenson was acknowledged by the Chinese government as one of the most influential Foreign Experts in the past 40 years since China initiated its policy

on Reform and Opening Up. Mr. Stevenson assumed the artistic directorship of Texas Ballet Theater in July 2003. Previously he served as artistic director of Houston Ballet (1976-2003), elevating the company from a regional troupe to an internationally acclaimed ensemble.

CARL COOMER, PRINCIPAL

Coomer began his ballet training in Liverpool at the age of 13 years old. In 1998, he received a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London, under the direction of Dame Merle Park and later, Gailene Stock. His professional career started in Houston Ballet in 2001, where he performed for six seasons. In 2007, he joined Texas Ballet Theater. His repertoire includes leading roles in ballets by Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., Christopher Bruce, George Balanchine, Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir

BEN STEVENSON, O.B.E.

CARL COOMER

RIEKO HATATO

DAVID SCHRENK

NICOLE VON ENCK

Kenneth MacMillan, John Cranko, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, Hans van Manen, Glen Tetley, Jerome Robbins, Stanton Welch, James Kudelka, Val Caniparoli and many more. He has choreographed several works for TBT: Evolving (2012), Clann (2014) Henry VIII (2018) and The Story of You (2021).

RIEKO HATATO, SOLOIST

Rieko Hatato began dance training at age five in Japan. She was trained by Yoko Tsukamoto at Yoko Tsukamoto Theater de Ballet Academy in Nagoya. From 2013 to 2015, she performed main roles in Firebird, The Nutcracker, and Coppelia with Artistic Director Hideo Fukagawa. She has won many medals in competitions in Japan, a bronze medal in the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2013, and was a finalist in the USA International Ballet Competition in 2018. Before coming to the US, she performed as a guest dancer with Russian Ballet Theater in Cyprus in 2017. She then joined Arts Ballet Theater of Florida for the 2017/18 season and Texas Ballet Theater for the 2018/19 season. She has enjoyed performing the Bluebird pas de deux in Ben Stevenson’s The Sleeping Beauty, Clara in Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker, and Third Pas de Deux in Tim O’Keefe’s Violin Concerto in D. @7rieko_hatato7

DAVID SCHRENK, PRINICPAL

David Schrenk is originally from Jacksonville, Florida and began his training at the Florida Ballet Training Center under Laurie Byrd. At 10 years old, he started ballet to aid his gymnastics training, but after working with Byrd, he quickly realized dancing was his true passion. He began his professional career by joining Houston Ballet’s second company at 17. After spending a year in Houston with teachers from the Ben Stevenson Academy, Schrenk decided to work with Mr. Stevenson at Texas Ballet Theater and joined the company in 2015. Since working with Stevenson, Schrenk has performed many great roles including Siegfried from Stevenson’s Swan Lake, Prince Florimund from Stevenson’s The Sleeping Beauty, and the improv solo from Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16. Texas Ballet Theater also sent Schrenk to the 2018 International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, where he won a bronze medal thanks to the coaching of Li Anlin, Tim O’Keefe, Anna Donavan, and Stevenson.

NICOLE VON ENCK, PRINCIPAL

Nicole Von Enck is in her 13th season with Texas Ballet Theater. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she began her professional training with Joanne Hughes Morscher at the Royal School of Ballet. In 2008, she joined North Carolina Dance Theatre for two years as an apprentice, and in 2010 joined the TBT Company. Some of Nicole’s favorite roles include Odette/Odile from Ben Stevenson’s Swan Lake, Cinderella in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Russian Girl from George Balanchine’s Serenade, Esmeralda Pas de Deux by Ben Stevenson, the Prima Ballerina in Ètudes by Harald Lander, Third Pas de Deux in Christopher Wheeldon’s DGV©: Danse à Grande Vitesse, Britten Pas by Ben Stevenson, Petite Mort by Jiri Kylian, Flora from Ben Stevenson’s Dracula, Pas de Trois from Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries, Pas de Quartre from Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Gloria, and My One and Only variation from George’s Balanchine’s Who Cares. Ms. Von Enck is married to fellow Texas Ballet Theater company member Joamanuel Velazquez and they have a two year old daughter.

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The Kyiv City Ballet thanks sponsor Polsky Foundation for their support of the US Tour.

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Operation White Stork is a veteran-led, rapid response, humanitarian organization that takes its name from the national bird of Ukraine. White Stork’s programs include: evacuating women and children, the elderly, and their pets; directly supplying hospitals; and providing first aid kits to the defense forces of Ukraine.

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