The Sarasota Ballet opens its second season under the leadership of director Iain Webb in four performances starting Friday, October 24, 2008 at the FSU Performing Arts Center with a program of diverse choreography by Renato Paroni, Antony Tudor and Robert North.
Webb has selected three very different ballets for this first program with the intent to highlight the strengths of the new Sarasota Ballet Company. A diverse company with talent to perform ballets that showcase the women's fast classical technique, the men's athleticism and strength and all of the Company's ability to express the feeling and emotion of the greatest dramatic story ballets.
Rococo Variations
The evening begins with Renato Paroni's Rococo Variations, premiered in May of 2008 by Images of Dance, London. With this modern work, Paroni honors the great choreographer George Balanchine, who more than anyone else, inspired him to choreograph. The elegance of the reduced classical chamber orchestra of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, the music to which this work is set, provides the canvas for a series of neo-classical choreographic exercises linked together by "walking"sessions of the 18th century courtly manner.
Lilac Garden
This year, joining many of the leading ballet companies, Webb pays tribute to choreographer Antony Tudor in a year that marks the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Company will demonstrate their dramatic depth in Tudor's world famous Lilac Garden, a deeply nuanced dance drama whose plot has been likened to a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Set to the Poeme for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 65 by Ernest Chausson, this psychologically potent work premiered in 1936 was Tudor's sixth ballet and established his choreographic credentials.
Webb says, "We are delighted to introduce a Tudor ballet to the repertoire and join the rest of dance world to celebrate one of the great choreographers of the 20th century."
Troy Game
Robert North's Troy Game is one of his greatest ballets that will showcase the strengths and talent of the Sarasota Ballet men. Premiered in 1974 by London Contemporary Dance Theatre it is a one act ballet with music by Bob Downes and Batucada (Brazilian) and parodies the muscle-bound athleticism of the macho male.
All performances are at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts
Friday October 24 8:00 BUY NOW
Saturday October 25 2:00 BUY NOW
Saturday October 25 8:00 BUY NOW
Sunday October 26 2:00 BUY NOW -- www.sarasotaballet.org
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