Friday, Sept. 28 through Sunday, Sept. 30
at Santa Barbara's Center Stage Theater
Featuring Guest Artists
Carlos Fittante, dancer and choreographer
Stephanie Sivers, soprano
Featuring Choreography by:
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Brian Carey Chung
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Carrie Diamond
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Carlos Fittante
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Lizabeth Skalski
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Music by:
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Gabriel Fauré
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Etta James
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W.A. Mozart
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Maurice Ravel
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Featuring guest composer: José Luís Greco
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The Dancers:
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Featuring guest artist Carlos Fittante
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Colleen Bialas
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Ellen O'Connell
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Eduardo Cueto
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Christina Sanchez
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David Eck
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Denise Woods
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The Musicians:
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Featuring Stephanie Sivers, soprano
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Norma LaTuchie, flute
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Nicole McKenzie, violin
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Hillary Schoap, viola
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Hilary Clark, cello
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Eric Valinsky, piano
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Artistic Staff:
Carrie Diamond, Artistic Director
Eric Valinsky, Music Director
Carlos Fittante, Chirstina Sanchez, Artistic Associates
Patricia L. Frank, Lighting Designer
Ann Bruice, Costume Designer
Production Staff:
Gitte, Stage Manager
Clarice Hillebrand, Costume Construction
Giulia Miorelli, Costume Assistant
Claudia Orona, Wardrobe
Gabe Rives-Corbett & Tim Jenkins, Stagehands
The Program
Rendezvous au jardin
(World Premiere)
Choreography: Lizabeth Skalski
Music: Flute Quartet in A, K. 298 by W. A. Mozart
Costumes: Ann Bruice
Colleen Bialas, Ellen O'Connell, Denise Woods
Eduardo Cueto
Denise Wood and Carlos Fittante in Fittante's Wayang Blues
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore
The glories of the Rococo age are invoked in this witty ballet of manners, choregraphed
for Ballet Santa Barbara by Lizabeth Skalski, Associate Director of the Main Street
Ballet and former Associate Director of the New American Ballet Ensemble. The work
is choregoraphed to selections from the flute quartets of Mozart, performed live,
and features the costumes of Ann Bruice.
Interlude
Choreographed by Carlos Fittante and Carrie Diamond
Music: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn by Maurice Ravel
arranged by Eric Valinsky
Ellen O'Connell
Norma LaTuchie, flute
Nicole McKenzie, violin
Hillary Schoap, viola
Hilary Clark, cello
Ellen O'Connell in Interlude
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore
One of three short solos choreographed by our guest choreographers to different
arrangements of Ravel's menuet
Ah, Love! Let Us Be True to One Another*
(World Premiere)
Choreography: Brian Carey Chung
Music: Selected songs by Gabriel Fauré
Sung by: Stephanie Sivers with Eric Valinsky,
piano
Costumes: Ann Bruice
Coleen Bialas, Christina Sanchez, Denise Woods
Eduardo Cueto, David Eck, Carlos Fittante
*the title is a line from Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach
David Eck, Colleen Bialas, and Carlos Fittante in Chung's Ah Love!
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore
Up-and-coming New York choreographer Brian Carey Chung has created a new work for
Ballet Santa Barbara in a sensual contemporary balletic style never before seen
from a local company. The work is choreographed to the songs of Gabriel Fauré
to be sung live by Stephanie Sivers with accompaniment by Eric Valinsky.
Wayang Blues
(West Coast Premiere)
Choreography: Carlos Fittante
Music: Songs sung by Etta James
Costumes: Ann Bruice
Set: Patricia L. Frank
Video Animation: David Bengali
Puppeteers: James Birch, Yuki Kawahisa, Carlos
Fittante
The Cast
Mr. & Mrs.: Denise Woods and Carlos Fittante
The Young Couple: Ellen O'Connell and David Eck
The Bartender: Hylla Fischer
Denise Woods and Carlos Fittante in Fittante's Wayang Blues
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore
Artistic Associate, Carlos Fittante has set his “Wayang Blues” on the Company, a
compelling duet that truthfully and humorously portrays five decades of a marriage.
Fittante skillfully combines dance-theater, Wayang puppetry and the music of Etta
James.
Interlude
Choreographed by Lizabeth Skalski
Music: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn by Maurice Ravel
arranged by Eric Valinsky
Carlos Fittante
Norma LaTuchie, flute
Eric Valinsky, piano
Carlos Fittante in Interlude
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore
One of three short solos choreographed by our guest choreographers to different
arrangements of Ravel's menuet
Eternity, Desire, and Other Predicaments
(World Premiere)
Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music: Dark Love by José Luis Greco
Costumes: Ann Bruice
Set Design: Ann Bruice
Danced by the Company
This ballet is made possible by a generous donation from Carol Skinner and family.
Sanchez, Cueto, and Bialas in Diamond’s Eternity, Desire, and Other Predicaments
Photo: ©2007 David Basemore
Loosely based on the classic 1987 Wim Wenders film, Wings of Desire, and
featuring costumes by Ann Bruice, this piece is choreographed to the hauntingly
beautiful music of José Luis Greco.
Postlude
Choreographed by Brian Carey Chung
Music: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn by Maurice Ravel
arranged by Eric Valinsky
Christina Sanchez
Hillary Schoap, viola
Eric Valinsky, piano
Christina Sanchez in Postlude
Photo: ©2007 David Basemore
One of three short solos choreographed by our guest choreographers to different
arrangements of Ravel's menuet