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.

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.

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.

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.

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.