2013 Season at a Glance
PROGRAM ONE (February 15-17, 2013)
Don Quixote (Company Premiere)
Choreography: After Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Composer: Ludwig Minkus
PROGRAM TWO (March 22-24, 2013)
Les Rendezvous (Company Premiere)
Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Composer: Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
Music: From the opera L'Enfant prodigue
Méditation from Thaïs (Company Premiere)
Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Music: Jules Massenet ("Meditation" from Thaïs)
Clear (Encore Performance)
Choreography: Stanton Welch
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Music: Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor and the first and second movements from the Violin Concerto in G minor.
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 (Encore Performance)
Choreography: Clark Tippet
Composer: Max Bruch
Music: Concerto No. 1 in G minor for Violin, Opus 26
PROGRAM THREE (April 19-21, 2013)
Duets (Company Premiere)
Choreography: Merce Cunningham
Composer: John Cage
Music: Improvisation III
Glow-Stop (Company Premiere)
Choreography: Jorma Elo
Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Philip Glass
Music: Mozart (Symphony No. 28 in C, 4th Movement) and Glass (Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 2nd Movement)
Jessica Lang (World Premiere Ballet)
Choreography: Jessica Lang
Composer: Jakub Ciupinski
Music: Commissioned score
RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ: Principal Ballet Master
WES CHAPMAN: Artistic Consultant
GEORGE DAUGHERTY, Music Director & Conductor
All programs performed to live music by Symphony Silicon Valley
Program One is the Company Premiere of Don Quixote. Based on an episode from Miguel de Cervantes' famous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, the story follows its title hero, a middle-aged country gentleman absorbed with tales of chivalry, who sets out to defend virtue and punish those who violate the code of honor. With his servant Sancho Panza as his armor-bearer, he travels to Barcelona, only to mistake Kitri, an innkeeper's daughter who is in love with a barber, for his dream-lover Dulcinea. A dance-packed feast of comedy, drama, romance, intrigue, betrayal and fantasy, Minkus' rousing score endows each scene with rich atmosphere.
Program Two This mixed repertory program features the Company Premiere of Les Rendezvous, one of Sir Frederick Ashton's signature works. Set to music from the opera L'Enfant prodigue by Daniel Francois Espirit Auber, this suite of light-hearted dances for young people in a park was the first major ballet created by Ashton for the Vic-Wells Company in London. The exotic Méditation from Thaïs set to Jules Massenet's "Meditation" illuminates another part of the Ashton heritage. Rounding out the program are encore performances of Clear from choreographer Stanton Welch with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Clark Tippet's Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 set to the famous violin concerto by Max Bruch.
Program Three is highlighted by a World Premiere ballet set on our company by choreographer Jessica Lang, who last year brought us the Bay Area Premiere of Splendid Isolation III. The piece will be danced to a live performance of a new work by Jakub Ciupinski, one of the pioneers in the exhilarating field of gesture-controlled music. Also on the program are the Company Premieres of Glow-Stop, a fiercely athletic work by Jorma Elo set to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Philip Glass; and Duets, a series of pas de deux for six couples by the late master choreographer Merce Cunningham set to a fast-paced percussive score by Cunningham’s long-time collaborator John Gage.
Programming Subject To Change
2012 HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR
(December 8-23, 2012)
THE NUTCRACKER (World Premiere)
Ballet San Jose’s 2012 production of The Nutcracker features all new choreography by our own Karen Gabay with sets and costumes from American Ballet Theatre. You won’t want to miss this treasured holiday classic with our full company of professional dancers, students from Ballet San Jose School, and the ballet orchestra. Arrive early and enjoy carolers in the lobby and meet characters from the show.
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