BSB Artistic Associate and Guest Artist Carlos Fittante returned to present Fandango Fantasy, "a playful seduction between a dominatrix violinist and a leather-clad matador" set to mustic by Boccherini played on stage by Santa Barbara violinist Nicole McKenzie.

First performed in November, 2006, this contemporary work explores the recollections of an intimate relationship and what might have been, set to music by Kenji Bunch. Horwitz comments, “With [Mr. Bunch's] Slowdance, I explore contemporary relationships including unrequited love and the absence of physical communication.”

Based on a poem by the 13th Century mystic Rumi and set to music by Bach, Persevere is a new solo by Aida Amirkhanian who the Canberra Times called "an exceptional performer who stunned with her performance and challenges with her views... she sidles surreptitiously into our hearts, then grabs and manipulates our emotions like a master juggler."

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.

Serenade, an early pas de deux choreographed by Carrie Diamond, is an introspective yet romantic look at a developing relationship of a young couple. It was originally premiered in New York by Ms. Diamond with the New American Ballet Ensemble.