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Eduado Cueto and Christina Sanchez in Carrie Diamond's The Triumph of Terpsichore
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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Ballet Santa Barbara's Debut Performance
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March 11th at 8:00 PM and March 12 at 2:00 PM, 2006
at the
Marjorie Luke Theatre |
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In Memory of Helen Valinsky, Leal Anne Mertes and Benjamin Harkarvy
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The Dancers
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Carlos Fittante |
Juliana Bertelsen |
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Colleen Bialas |
Sam Mitchell |
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Eduardo Cueto |
Ellen O’Connell |
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Kaitlyn Ezell |
Christina Sanchez |
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Aimee Lopez |
Shane Scopatz |
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Technical Staff
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Samanta Szigeti, stage manager |
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Rich Hoag, assistant stage manager |
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Chad Colley, stage crew |
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The Program
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The Triumph of Terpsichore
(West Coast Premiere) |
Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music: Buxtehude: Adagio and Allegro by David Noon
Costumes: Jana Rosenblatt
The Muses:
Ellen O’Connell and Aimee Lopez
The Bemused:
Colleen Bialas, Eduardo Cueto, Sam Mitchell and Christina Sanchez
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Bialas, Mitchell, Sanchez, and Cueto in Diamond's The Triumph of Terpsichore
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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A delightful work for six dancers by artistic director Carrie Diamond
that shows how dance can lighten the lives of even benighted peasants. It is set
to a musical score by Pomona composer David Noon, currently Dean
of Academics at the Manhattan School of Music.
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Midnight Tangle
(West Coast Premiere) |
Choreography: Lizabeth Skalski
Music: Selections from Kleine Dreigroschenmusikby Kurt Weill
Costumes: Linda Hayes
Kaitlyn Ezell and
Shane Scopatz
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Kaitlyn Ezell and Shane Scopatz in Liz Skalski's Midnight Tangle
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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This pas de deux about a romantic entanglement was set to excerpts from
Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera by New American Ballet
Ensemble’s associate director Liz Skalski. The West
Coast Premiere was danced by exquisitely talented San Marcos High School students Kaitlyn Ezell
and Shane Scopatz |
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Premonition
(West Coast Premiere) |
Featuring Carlos Fittante, Artistic Associate and Guest Artist
Choreography: Benjamin Harkarvy
Music: Selections from Introduction and Allegro by Maurice Ravel
Costumes: Jana Rosenblatt
Carlos Fittante with
Colleen Bialas, Ellen O’Connell and Aimee Lopez
Mr. Harkarvy created this work with the support of the National Endowment for the
Arts.
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Carlos Fittante, Colleen Bialas, Aimee Lopez, Ellen O'Connell in Harkarvy's Premonition
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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A work for four dancers, choreographed by the late Benjamin Harkarvy,
founder of Nederlands Dans Theater, director of the Pennsylvania
Ballet and the Dance Division of the Juilliard School.
This is one of the two last works choreographed by the master, both of which were
created for Diamond's New American Ballet Ensemble and which featured
Carlos Fittante as well as Ms. Diamond. The dance presents the
coming of age of four young people, doing so in a profoundly modern style, yet with
a decided art deco influence, perfectly in keeping with the score by Maurice
Ravel. |
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New Step Rag
(West Coast Premiere) |
Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music composed and performed by Eric Valinsky
Colleen Bialas
New Step Rag was made possible in part by a Space Grant
from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center.
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Eric Valinsky and Colleen Bialas in Carrie Diamond's New Step Rag
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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A fiendishly difficult and dramatic solo set to a fiendishly difficult original
piano score by music director Eric Valinsky, the choreography by
Carrie DIamond represents the struggles of a dancer at the turning
point of her career. Although intended to represent the end of a dance career,
Colleen Bialas presents an exquisite interpretation at the beginning
of hers. Dr. Valinsky performed the music at the West Coast Premiere. |
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Amantes
(Guest Performance) |
Choreographed and Danced by Carlos Fittante
Music: Juan Gabriel
Costume: Islene Pinder
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Carlos Fittante in Amantes
Photo: ©2006 BALAM |
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New York guest artist Carlos Fittante performed his Balinese-American
fusion solo. Amantes (Lovers) is a sensual solo of indeterminate
gender depicting a serenely beautiful masked figure who dances with questioning
seductiveness. |
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Terra Incognita
(World Premiere) |
(Sometimes the most unrecognizable terrain is found in the most familiar
people and places…)
Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music: Selected Mazurkas by Frederick Chopin
Performed by Eric Valinsky
Costumes:
Stacie Logue/Maria Cabrera
Eduardo Cueto, Aimee Lopez
Colleen Bialas, Ellen O’Connell
and a special appearance by Juliana Bertelsen
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Eric Valinsky, Denise Woods, and Nicole Helton in Terra Incognita
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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A work for 5 dancers, including a guest appearance by the popular Santa Barbara
dancer Juliana Bertelson, was choreographed by artistic director Carrie Diamond and set to Mazurkas
by Frederic Chopin, performed live by music director Eric Valinsky. In this satiric
ballet, a couple confronts manipulation, betrayal, and finally affirmation in a
work that combines classical and contemporary styles. |
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© 2006-2007 American Dance and Music, Inc.
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