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Carlos Fittante in Benjamin Harkarvy's Premonition
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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A New York Perspective, March, 2008
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Ballet Santa Barbara presents
an evening of works originally premiered in New York
Featuring Benjamin Harkarvy's Premontion
Friday through Sunday, March 14-16
at Santa Barbara's Center Stage Theater
Opening Night Gala, Friday, March 14th, 7:00 p.m.
Includes reception immediately following the performance.
All opening night tickets are $50.00 and will help support BSB's educational programs.
Saturday March 15th: 8:00 p.m.
Sunday March 16th: 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are $22.00 general, $18.00 students and seniors
$10.00 students K-12 and seniors, Sunday matinee only
Tickets can be purchased online at www.centerstagetheater.org
or by calling the Center Stage Theater box office at 963-0408
Call 450-7535 for further information.
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Featuring Choreography by:
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Carrie Diamond
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Benjamin Harvarvy
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Carlos Fittante
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Lizabeth Skalski
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Music by:
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Manuel De Falla
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Maurice Ravel
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Erno von Dohnányi
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Kurt Weill
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Sergei Prokofiev
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and more...
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The Dancers:
Featuring guest artists Carlos Fittante
and Robin Gilbert Campos
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With:
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Colleen Bialas
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Rachel Mann
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David Eck
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Ellen O'Connell
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David Fonnegra
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Jekyns Pelaez
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Felicia Guzman
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Denise Woods
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The Program:
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Concerto Allegro
(West Coast Premiere) |
Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music: Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev
Costumes: Jana Rosenblatt, reconstructed by Claudia Oroña
David Eck -- Rachel Mann
David Fonnegra -- Ellen O'Connell
Jekyns Pelaez -- Colleen Bialas
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Rachel Mann and David Eck in Diamond's Concerto Allegro
Photo: ©2008 David Basemore |
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Concerto Allegro, an exuberant classical work for six dancers choregoraphed
by Carrie Diamond, was originally performed at the debut season of the
New American Ballet Ensemble. |
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Eden
(West Coast Premiere)
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lovers discover Tantric ecstasy
Conceived by Islene Pinder
Choreography: Carlos Fittante
Music: Largo in C Major for piccolo recorder by Antonio Vivaldi
and Brazilian rhythmic Jazz ensemble, Uakti II
Costume: Angela Kostritzky-Haws
Masks: Jane Stein of New York, and Renu from the
village of Singapadu, Bali
Featuring guest artists Robin Gilbert Campos and Carlos Fittante
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Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante in Fittante's Eden
Photo: ©2008 David Basemore |
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New York guest artist and BSB artistic associate Carlos Fittante
will dance with New York guest dancer, Robin Gilbert Campos in Fittante's Eden,
a hynotic, sensual pas de deux. Mr. Fittante and Ms. Gilbert both danced in 1991
for Diamond's New York company, the New American Ballet Ensemble
in Diamond's Sueños Castillanos.
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Midnight Tangle
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Choreography: Lizabeth Skalski
Music: Selections from Kleine Dreigroschenmusikby Kurt Weill
Costumes: Linda Hayes
Felicia Guzman and
Jekyns Pelaez
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Felicia Guzman and Jekyns Pelaez in Skalski's Midnight Tangle
Photo: ©2008 David Basemore |
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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
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Premonition
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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 Robin Gilbert
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
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Serenade
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Choreographed by Carrie Diamond
Music: Serenade in C major, Op. 10 by Erno von Dohnányi
First performed in 1986
Ellen O'Connell
and
David Eck
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David Eck and Ellen O'Connell in Diamond's Serenade
Photo: ©2008 David Basemore |
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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.
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Amantes
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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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Sueños Castellanos
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Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music: Concerto for Harpsichord by Manuel De Falla
Costumes: Jana Rosenblatt
Colleen Bialas, Robin Gilbert, David Eck, Denise Woods
Featuring
Felicia Guzman, David Fonnegra, and Rachel Mann
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The company in Carrie Diamond's Sueños Castellanos
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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Sueños Castellanos, originally choreographed by Carrie Diamond
for the New American Ballet Ensemble, blends the striking formality
of the neo-classical style with the intense sensuality of Spanish dance. In three
movements, it is a joyous celebration of life and dance that showcases the company.
The lenghty middle movement is a poignant, dreamlike memory of love and loss.
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