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MAY 2017 2016/2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Lisa Specht Karen Kay Platt Note from the Board Chair Secretary Robert J. Abernethy Susan M. Wegleitner Michael J. Pagano Treasurer PRESIDENT Vice Chairs Lisa Whitney Rachel S. Moore Assistant Treasurer and & CEO President and Chief Chief Financial Officer Executive Officer
MEMBERS AT LARGE ^ Leave of Absence ith the recent increased discourse around women’s issues and William H. Mattie McFadden- women’s rights in our nation, it is particularly timely that Glorya Ahmanson Lawson^ Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center offers a perspective by two Wallis Annenberg Diane G. Medina women on a powerful story of male/female relationships. In fact, in the Jill Baldauf Elizabeth Michelson Darrell Brown Darrell D. Miller award-winning production of Scottish Ballet's A Streetcar Named Desire, Kimaada M. Brown Cindy Miscikowski choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa offers us a different take on the Dannielle Campos Shelby Notkin classic Tennessee Williams tale. Instead of what was once a reflection of Greg T. Geyer Rory Pullens a misogynistic society where feminism had no say, Lopez Ochoa, working Lisa Gilford Max Ramberg David Gindler Jay Rasulo closely with acclaimed theater director Nancy Meckler, lends a unique Kiki Ramos Gindler Joseph Rice female voice to the choreographic process. The result is a narrative ballet Brindell Gottlieb Richard K. Roeder that celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Maria Rosario Joni J. Smith by exploring important issues of sexual violence and identity through Jackson Catharine Soros Glenn Kaino Marc I. Stern a distinctive lens. Arthur D. Kraus Cary H. Thompson As The Music Center works to offer programming that is increasingly more Cary J. Lefton Walter F. Ulloa David Lippman Timothy S. Wahl relevant to all the communities we serve, it is vital we provide a platform Nigel Lythgoe Alyce Williamson for more female choreographers. In that way, we help advance efforts by Richard Lynn Martinez Jay Wintrob Bowen “Buzz” the arts to address diversity, and, at the same time, offer audiences the Bradley H. Ellis H. McCoy opportunity to experience new ideas and approaches. This season of Glorya General Counsel Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center is a terrific example of that, including the work we enjoyed by Jessica Lang and Alvin Ailey’s Hope Boykin DIRECTORS EMERITI earlier this year and now with Scottish Ballet and the work by Lopez Ochoa. *Chairman Emeritus Peter K. Barker Kent Kresa This summer, we will witness the incredible talents of New York City Ballet Judith Beckmen Robert F. Maguire, III Principal Ballerina Tiler Peck, who is curating three new evenings of mixed Eli Broad Ginny Mancini repertory for The Music Center’s Ballet Now.™ Ronald W. Burkle Edward J. McAniff Lloyd E. Cotsen Walter M. Mirisch Of course, excellence remains at the core of what we present on the stages John B. Emerson* Fredric M. Roberts and spaces of The Music Center, and our next engagement is no exception Lois Erburu Claire L. Rothman with Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg’s grand artistic ballet, Tchaikovsky. Boris Richard M. Ferry Cynthia A. Telles Bernard A. James A. Thomas Eifman’s contemporary choreography explores the personal life of the great Greenberg Andrea L. Van romantic composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set to a score of Tchaikovsky’s Stephen F. de Kamp* most popular works. I hope you will join me for this powerful presentation. Hinchliffe, Jr. Paul M. Watson Amb. Glen A. Holden Thomas R. As always, I value your support and welcome your ideas. Stuart M. Ketchum Weinberger Amb. Lester B. Korn Rosalind W. Wyman Warmly,
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Seeing Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was in two words: an experience. My students were captivated from start to finish. I don't think that I've ever seen my students that focused or quiet. From being able to socialize with other students of diverse ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds, to entering the theatre and enjoying the understated elegance of the chandeliers, to enjoying the storytelling and amazing talent, beauty, and athleticism displayed on stage, they were transformed, and they understood the pure enjoyment of being part of a collective that respects and reveres artistry in its myriad forms. They may not fully know it yet, but a seed was planted that day — a seed that will flower and grow and help keep the arts alive for generations of children and adults.” – Public school teacher The Music Center Annual Fund Fund Annual Center Music The Foundation Center Music The Harris Katte Elisabeth Dorothy Chandler Buffum Program Fund Arts Dance Center Foundation Dance Kaufman Glorya by: part, in provided, is Desire Named AStreetcar Ballet's Scottish of presentation Center's Music The for Support SEWANEE, TENNESSEE SOUTH, THE OF UNIVERSITY THE arrangement with special through Presented WILLIAMS TENNESSEE play by Original SALEM PETER Music and Sound LOPEZANNABELLE OCHOA Choreography MECKLERNANCY Direction
SCOTTISH BALLET SCOTTISH Photography by Nisbet Wylie Nisbet by Photography 7 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE make a little temporary magic just in order to pay for - one night's shelter. PROGRAM That's why I've been - not so awf'ly good lately. I've run for protection, Stella… protection.
SYNOPSIS NEW ORLEANS Now heavily addicted to alcohol, Blanche travels to her sister When Tennessee Williams began writing his play A Streetcar Stella in New Orleans, hoping to leave behind her past and to Named Desire he thought of calling it The Moth. Our first image make a new start. She meets up with Stella and Stanley at the takes its inspiration from this title when we see a young girl, bowling alley and, when she is taken to their apartment, she is Blanche, dancing under a bare light bulb. She is a delicate horrified to see how basic their lives are and how little privacy creature fluttering towards the light, a light that attracts but there will be as she shares their tiny living space. Stanley proudly that can also burn: a light that represents desire. tells her that they are expecting a baby. Blanche senses that Our storytelling, unlike Williams' play, begins by relating the Stanley is fiercely territorial and resents her presence in his home; story of Blanche DuBois while she is growing up in America’s he feels that Blanche looks down on him and thinks him common. Deep South. The year is 1935, and the lifestyle of the landed THE POKER GAME gentry is in steep decline. Blanche is a beautiful young girl When Stanley’s friends arrive at the apartment for their poker with her life ahead of her. night, Stella is eager to be out of his way and takes Blanche out for the evening. As the two women watch a floorshow in a nightclub, Blanche drinks heavily. She feels lightheaded and ACT I suddenly is haunted by an image of Alan and the night of his death. Shaken, she leaves the club with Stella, and on the street, BELLE REVE meets a Mexican flower seller, selling flowers for graves as she Blanche meets and falls in love with Alan, a gentle and sensitive chants “flores para los muertos”: flowers for the dead. As Blanche young man. At their wedding, we meet her family and Blanche’s buys a flower, she imagines again that young Alan is haunting her. younger sister, Stella. The wedding is elegant and genteel even though the once wealthy family is soon to lose its home, Back at the apartment, Stanley’s poker game is in full swing. Belle Reve, due to mounting debt incurred through gambling There, Blanche meets his friend Mitch. Mitch is a shy man who and profligate spending. At the wedding, Alan briefly meets is not confident with women and not married, and Blanche a Young Man and finds he is attracted to him. Alan is clearly takes her opportunity to flirt with him. She longs for a safe uncertain about his sexuality and, although he loves his wife, haven and protection from the world's harshness and can see he soon begins a secret affair. When Blanche unexpectedly no way to find this unless she can find a husband. In the early comes upon the two men together, she is confused and upset fifties, few women could imagine survival or happiness without and eventually rejects Alan. In despair, Alan runs off and shoots being married. Sensing that Mitch is her only chance, Blanche is himself, dying in Blanche’s arms. She is distraught and cannot desperate to convince him that she is still young and innocent. forgive herself for dealing so harshly with him. When she invites Mitch to dance, Stanley becomes enraged at the interruption to his poker game and throws the radio out of the STELLA LEAVES HOME window. Stella is furious and pushes the friends to leave. Stanley, Stella makes a decision to leave Belle Reve and make her way now drunk and feeling his territory invaded, attacks his wife. in the world, leaving Blanche alone with her family and their His friends manage to stop him and douse him in the bath while financial problems. Over time, she has to deal with many family the two women run out onto the street. Stanley is full of remorse deaths, including her parents. The family home, the beautiful and calls out to Stella. Unable to resist her passion for Stanley decaying Southern mansion Belle Reve, is lost, and Blanche and his need for her, Stella returns and is able to forgive, taking is overwhelmed. him into her arms. When the scene shifts to the music-filled streets of New Orleans, Stella meets and falls passionately in love with Stanley INTERMISSION Kowalski, a factory worker. Here, the score introduces us to the world of jazz. ACT II We rejoin Blanche and find she is without a home and is now THE NEXT MORNING living in a hotel. Haunted by the guilt of her young husband’s The next morning, Stanley and Stella are very loving towards each death, she seeks comfort in alcohol and in the arms of strangers, other, and Blanche, who has spent the night with a neighbour, including Shep Huntleigh, a wealthy Texan. Eventually she is returns just as Stanley is going out. She sees Stanley as a monster discovered seducing a Young Boy and is forced to leave town. and is desperate to get Stella packed and away before he returns, but Stanley comes back unexpectedly and overhears Blanche BLANCHE: trying to turn his wife against him. Stella sees him in the doorway I was never hard or self-sufficient enough. When people are soft - soft and leaps into his arms. Blanche feels isolated and imagines people have got to court the favour of hard ones, Stella. Have got to be she is surrounded by "desire" in the form of couples locked in seductive - put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings and glow - passionate embrace. She turns, as always, to drink. BLANCHE AND MITCH SCOTTISH Mitch arrives to take Blanche on a date and a sequence of short scenes show us their courtship over the long, hot summer. BALLET
They dine, go boating, shelter from the rain and visit the movies. Scottish Ballet is Scotland’s national Blanche continues to put up a front of innocence and refuses dance company, established in 1969 Mitch any intimacy beyond a goodnight kiss. by Peter Darrell. The award-winning company has built its reputation on strong THE LETTER commissioning and ambitious touring. It Time has passed, and Stella is now heavily pregnant. Stanley regularly presents at premier theatres arrives home with a letter from a friend telling him of Blanche’s and events such as Sadler’s Wells and promiscuous past. Having seen Blanche trying to ‘steal’ his wife, Edinburgh International Festival, as well he is now determined to destroy Blanche’s chances with Mitch. as leading venues and festivals abroad He shows the letter to Stella, and we see images of Blanche’s including Europe, Asia and North America. past encounters when she was living at the hotel. Scottish Ballet continues to build on its heritage as a bold, adventurous company Blanche discovers Stella begging Stanley not to show the with ambitious creative programmes and letter to anyone. She asks to see it, but Stanley waves it before touring, working with groundbreaking her eyes and leaves to do his damage. Blanche is terrified and choreographers such as Ivgi & Greben, imagines the letter and its contents being seen by everyone Bryan Arias, David Dawson and Crystal Pite. in town, including Mitch.
Mitch arrives, angry that he has been so deceived by tales of "This is a company that clearly her innocent past. He has the letter, and he tries to force himself loves to dance." on her before leaving in disgust. Alone, Blanche feels she has Mail on Sunday lost every chance for survival. In an echo of her youth, she "What a clever company, and dances her vulnerability as a moth, and the chorus of women what a thrilling repertory." echo her movements. The Guardian
BLANCHE RETREATS INTO FANTASY "Dancers who demand your attention When the doorbell rings, Blanche is brought back to reality and leave you gasping for more." by the arrival of a Newspaper Delivery Boy. He reminds her of The Scotsman young Alan and, indeed, Alan's ghost appears again to haunt her. "One can’t help but be overawed at the She tries to seduce the Boy, but her hold on reality is so slight dancers’ physical strength, technicality and that the boy keeps turning into Alan. When the Boy leaves, she muscular slenderness. But the truly exciting is alone, haunted by Alan and other figures from her past: his thing is that Scottish Ballet are heading Young Lover and Young Blanche. in a brave direction, pushing themselves towards experimentation and progression Feeling that she has nowhere to turn and that Stanley will throw whilst still keeping their traditionalist her out, Blanche drinks heavily and continues to retreat into audience happy." fantasy as she sees characters from her life coming towards her. TV Bomb She dresses up in an old ball dress and imagines she is the star "There is no doubt in our minds that this attraction in her own life. company can take on any challenge, not just Blanche is brought suddenly back to sobriety and reality when because they possess the technical ability, Stanley appears. He is celebrating the birth of his child. She is but because they talk to us with their bodies in a language everyone can understand." terrified to be alone with him and defends herself with a broken The Scotsman bottle. Stanley, provoked, takes her by force.
Some days later we see Blanche, broken, being carefully dressed scottishballet.co.uk by Stella. She is preparing her for a trip to the mental hospital twitter.com/scottishballet where Stanley has arranged for her to be committed. When facebook.com/scottishballethq instagram.com/scottishballet the Doctor arrives, Blanche runs to Stella. Stella has to choose youtube.com/scottishballet whether to protect Blanche or to be loyal to Stanley and decides to stay with Stanley as Blanche leaves the apartment with the Doctor. Blanche now retreats into fantasy. She imagines the Doctor is a friend and that she is in a field of flowers, the flowers for the dead we saw her buy in the street from the Mexican Flower Seller.
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Christopher Hampson ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Ochoa has created works for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Dutch National Hampson joined Scottish Ballet as Artistic Ballet, Djazzex, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, The Royal Ballet Director in August 2012. of Flanders, Gran Canaria Ballet, Gothenburg Ballet, State Modern Ballet Ankara, Pennsylvania Ballet, BalletX, BJM-Danse Montreal, Luna Negra Hampson trained at the Royal Ballet Schools. Dance Theatre Chicago, Ballet National de Marseille, Saarbrucken Ballet, His choreographic work began there and Jacoby & Pronk, Chemnitzer Ballet and Ballet Hispanico. continued at English National Ballet (ENB), where he danced until 1999 and for whom he Ochoa also creates for theatre and opera and recently for the celebrated subsequently created numerous award-winning Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf’s project in the Van Gogh Museum. works, including Double Concerto, Perpetuum She belongs to dance theatre collective De Fantasten with whom she Mobile, Country Garden, Concerto Grosso and The Nutcracker. created two full-length pieces, which have been performed in theatres and at festivals throughout the Netherlands. Hampson’s Romeo and Juliet, created for the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) in 2004, was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award (Best New The critically acclaimed Before After, which Ochoa created for the Production 2005) and in the same year he created a production of Giselle Dutch National Ballet in 2002, has been performed at the Dance Passion for the National Theatre, Prague. Hampson created Sinfonietta Giocosa Festival in the Netherlands, the New York Fall for Dance Festival, the for the Atlanta Ballet (USA) in 2006 and after a New York tour it received Houston Dance Salad Festival, the 2007 Orange County Fall for Dance its UK premiere with ENB in 2007. Festival, the 2010 Murcia Gala (Spain) and throughout Sweden by the Gothenburg Ballet. He created Cinderella for RNZB in 2007, which was subsequently hailed as Best New Production by the New Zealand Herald and televised by TVNZ Ochoa has won several choreography prizes; in 2002, with Clair/Obscur in 2009. His work has toured Australia, China, the USA and throughout at the Hannover’s Choreographers competition and, in 2003, the first Europe. Other commissions include Dear Norman (Royal Ballet, 2009); prize and public’s prize with Replay at the International Choreographer’s Sextet (Ballet Black/ROH2, 2010); Silhouette (RNZB, 2010), Rite of Spring Competition of Bornem. In 2007, she was selected to participate with the (Atlanta Ballet, 2011), Storyville (Ballet Black/ROH2, 2012) nominated for a prestigious New York Choreographic Institute, and in 2009, her pieces National Dance Award 2012, and Hansel and Gretel (Scottish Ballet, 2013). Zip Zap Zoom (BJM-Danse Montreal) and Nube Blanco (Luna Negra Dance Theater) were included in the list of 10 best dance highlights of the year. Hampson is a co-founder of the International Ballet Masterclasses in Prague and has been a guest teacher for English National Ballet, Royal Her piece One, created for independent artist Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Swedish Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Atlanta Pronk has been acquired by Christopher Wheeldon’s Company Morphoses Ballet, Bonachela Dance Company, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and presented at Sadlers’ Wells in London, Vail and New York City Centre and the Genée International Ballet Competition. Hampson’s work now in 2008, as well as at the Dance Salad Festival in Houston, Titas Gala in forms part of the Solo Seal Award for the Royal Academy of Dance. Cincinatti and on the YAPG tour to Mexico. In 2010, Annabelle reworked the duet ONE into a quartet especially for Jacob’s Pillow Festival. Nancy Meckler DIRECTOR Meckler is artistic director for Shared Peter Salem COMPOSER Experience Theatre for which she has directed Salem's compositions range from scores for many productions including Anna Karenina, television dramas, documentaries and film, to Heartbreak House, True West, The Birthday Party, music for theatre, dance and the concert hall. The Bacchae, Orestes, Mother Courage and with His most recent TV commission was for the co-director Polly Teale, Mill on the Floss and highly acclaimed BBC series Call the Midwife. War and Peace. Other TV dramas have included the award- winning 5 Daughters, The Other Boleyn Girl, Beau Aristo will be her third play by Martin Sherman, Brummell, Trial and Retribution, The Vice, Great the other two being an adaptation of A Passage to India for Shared Expectations and documentaries such as Simon Schama's The Power of Experience and Rose, with Olympia Dukakis, for the National Theatre and Art: Caravaggio and Francesco's Venice. In theatre, he has worked with on Broadway. As associate director of Hampstead Theatre, she directed Nancy Meckler for many years writing music for her productions of Anna Uncle Vanya and Buried Child, as well as Sufficient Carbohydrate and Dusa Karenina, Mill on the Floss, The Tempest, A Passage to India, War and Fish Stas and Vi, both transferring to the West End. During three years Peace, and Bronte (all for Shared Experience Theatre), as well as her as associate director for Leicester Haymarket, her productions included dance-themed film Alive and Kicking. Other theatre credits include Jane The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Baal, The Hypochondriac, Eyre, Kindertransport, Mine, Ten Tiny Toes, Speechless (also for Shared Electra/Orestes. She has directed new plays for the Bush, Royal Court Experience Theatre), Julius Caesar, Murder in the Cathedral (RSC), The and the Almeida. Miser, The Crucible and Robert LePage's A Midsummer Night's Dream Her work for the National Theatre includes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (The National Theatre) and many other productions. and Abingdon Square (Soho Poly transfer). More recently for the RSC He is also a performer and musical director, recently playing in the she directed Comedy of Errors, House of Desires and Romeo and Juliet, on-stage band at the National Theatre in England People Very Nice. and recently directed Onassis in the West End with Robert Lindsay. In addition to working with dance as part of theatre productions, early Her two feature films wereSister My Sister and Alive and Kicking in his career, Salem was a rehearsal pianist with London Contemporary (screenplay by Martin Sherman). Dance, wrote a piece for Zaragoza Ballet choreographed by Caroline Salem and worked with Second Stride and The Gregory Nash Co. He also Annabelle Lopez Ochoa CHOREOGRAPHER collaborated with Gregory and Ian Brown on an award-winning adaptation Ochoa completed her dance studies at the of Great Expectations for actors and dancers in Glasgow. His concert Royal Ballet Academy of Antwerp, Belgium. As works include a series of pieces for strings including an octet, quartet a professional dancer, she appeared with various and Windhover for Piano Trio, which has recently been played and companies in Germany before joining in 1993, the recorded by The Fidelio Trio and can be streamed form his website. modern-jazz dance company Djazzex based in He plans to launch a string group later in the year. The Hague. In 1997, she joined the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, where she danced as a soloist for seven years, and in 2003, she decided to focus her creative energies entirely to choreography. Richard Honner PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR Marriage of Figaro, Requiem Ballet and Don Honner was born in London and studied at Giovanni (Kammeroper Vienna); and Carmen SCOTTISH BALLET London University, The Royal College of Music Negra (Icelandic Opera). and The London Opera Centre. After touring TOURING STAFF Theatre credits include Rosencrantz and with Opera for All, he spent two years with Guildenstern are Dead, Singin’ in the Rain Christopher Hampson Chief Executive The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before (West End/Chichester); Crazy For You (West joining The Australian Opera in 1972. In 1977, he / Artistic Director End/Regents Park); Earthquakes in London joined Scottish Opera where he remained for (Headlong Theatre tour); Smash (Menier); Steven Roth Executive Director nine years as a répétiteur and staff conductor. Bingo (Young Vic/Chichester); Racing Demon Hope Muir Assistant Artistic Director He first worked with Scottish Ballet as a (Sheffield Crucible); Me on A Sunday (Tour); guest for the winter and spring seasons of Master Class (Theatre Royal Bath); Filumena, Amy Dolan Company Manager 1986, joining the Company in August of that The Knot of the Heart, Becky Shaw (Almeida); / International Tour Producer year. From 1990 to 1992, he conducted opera The Syndicate, Goodnight Mr Tom, The Critic/ productions for the Royal Scottish Academy Real Inspector Hound, The Master Builder, George Thomson Technical Director of Music and Drama (now the Royal Oklahoma, The Grapes of Wrath, Cyrano De Tim Palmer Conservatoire of Scotland). Btergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre, for Production Manager whom he is an associate); The Secret Garden Honner has worked with Hong Kong Ballet Matthew Strachan Chief Electrician (Edinburgh Festival Theatre/Toronto); The (1989 -1999), San Francisco Ballet, Opera Cherry Orchard, Arthur and George (Birmingham Iain Levee Hawkes Bay in New Zealand, English National Assistant Electrician Rep); Dirty Dancing (West End/UK tour/ Opera and Frankfurt Opera and was official International); The History Boys (Tour/WYP); Chris Holmes Chief Stage Technician accompanist at the Sofia International Singing Darker Shores (Hampstead); A Month in the Competition in 1979. Stevie Winning Technician Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Cinderella In 2006 and 2008, Honner conducted concerts (Old Vic); Sleeping Beauty (New York/Barbican/ Sheelagh McCabe Stage Manager with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Young Vic); Henry IV Parts I & II (Washington Shakespeare); The Play What I Wrote (Broadway/ Zoe Hayward Deputy Stage Manager Niki Turner SET AND COSTUME DESIGN West End); Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar); Mary Mullen Turner graduated from Central St Martins Hamlet (Japan/Sadler’s Wells) and Yes Prime Head of Wardrobe School of Art with a First Class degree Minister, Lend Me A Tenor, Toyer, Imagine This, Ariane Robinson Wardrobe Technician in Theatre Design. She was then awarded a Bad Girls The Musical, Otherwise Engaged, bursary to travel the world researching street As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and festivals, which culminated in an exhibition Men (West End). in The Orangery, Gunnersbury Park, London. Working extensively with the RSC, Mitchell's A STREETCAR Working extensively in opera, both in the UK recent credits include Written on the Heart, NAMED DESIRE and internationally, Turner's credits include The City Madam, Cardenio, Morte D’Arthur, Madama Butterfly(Theater Magdeburg, Twelfth Night and Hamlet. CASTING Germany); The Magic Flute (Fundacion Opera Blanche De Oviedo, Spain); Il trovatore, La traviata, Hope Muir ASSISTANT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Rigoletto (Danish National Opera); A Midsummer Born in Toronto, Muir was a founding member of Eve Mutso (Friday & Saturday) Night’s Dream (Royal Opera House, Linbury Peter Schaufuss’s London Festival Ballet School. Araminta Wraith (Sunday) Studio); The Marriage of Figaro (costumes, Upon graduation, she joined the company (now English National Opera); The Magic Flute, The English National Ballet) where she danced Stella Rake’s Progress, Sarka, Osud and Cherevichki numerous soloist and principal roles. Sophie Laplane (Friday & Saturday) (Garsington Opera); Chorus! (Welsh National In 1994, Muir joined Rambert Dance Company Bethany Kingsley-Garner (Sunday) Opera); National Opera Studio Showcase (QEH); with the appointment of Christopher Bruce CBE. La traviata (English Touring Opera); L'amore There she danced a wide variety of repertoire industrioso, Carmen (Opera Holland Park); Don Alan from some of the most prolific choreographers, Gionvanni (Opera North); and Rusalka (Opera Victor Zarallo including Ek, Kylian, Naharin, Tharp, Tetley, North/Sydney Opera House, winner of Design De Frutos, Cunningham and over a dozen Bruce in Opera Australian Green Room Award and Jeff (Alan’s Lover) works. Muir then moved to Hubbard Street Best Production Helpman Award). Dance Chicago and expanded her repertoire Constant Vigier Her theatre credits include A Passage to India, to include Forsythe, Duato and Lubovitch, Orestes and Gone to Earth (Shared Experience); among others. Stanley Cardenio, Brixton Stories, As You Like It (co- Christopher Harrison Muir assists Christopher Bruce CBE with the design) and Oroonoko (Royal Shakespeare setting of his work internationally along with Company); Island Princess (RSC/West End); Javier de Frutos and American choreographer Mitch My Fair Lady (Århus, Denmark); Cyrano De Helen Pickett. She assisted Crystal Pite on her Luke Schaufuss Bergerac (Bristol Old Vic); Further than the creation Emergence for the National Ballet of Furthest Thing (National Theatre); Great Canada in 2009 and was invited by Emily Molnar Expectations (Derby Playhouse/Philadelphia); Young Blanche to be guest rehearsal assistant for Hofesh Speaking in Tongues (Hampstead Theatre); Aisling Brangan (Friday & Saturday) Shechter’s creation Untouchable at the Royal Our Boys (Donmar Warehouse); Things Fall Roseanna Leney (Sunday) Ballet, Covent Garden. Apart (Royal Court), and Junk (Oxford Stage Company/Norway). Muir joined Scottish Ballet in 2009 and was Shep promoted to assistant artistic director in 2015. Rimbaud Patron Tim Mitchell LIGHTING DESIGN Currently, she is artistic advisor for Charlotte Mitchell’s dance and opera credits include Ballet and will join the company in July 2017 Young Boy Cleopatra, Hamlet and Dracula (NBT); Ariadne as artistic director. Auf Naxos (WNO/Boston); La Bohème, Die Andrew Peasgood Fledermause (WNO); Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Mariinsky, Russia); Elektra (Opéra de Nice/ Mariinsky); The Lady and The Fool (BRB); The WHO’S WHO | DANCER BIOGRAPHIES
Bethany Kingsley-Garner Constant Vigier FIRST ARTIST Simon Schilgen ARTIST PRINCIPAL Born: Quimper, France Born: Heidelberg, Germany Born: Devon, England Trained: Paris Opera Ballet Trained: Hamburg Ballet Trained: Royal Ballet School School School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2007 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016
Christopher Harrison Aisling Brangan ARTIST Eado Turgeman ARTIST PRINCIPAL Born: Dublin, Ireland Born: Kiryat Tivon, Israel Born: Kippen, Scotland Trained: Central School of Trained: Boston Ballet School Trained: Dance School of Ballet Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Scotland and Royal Ballet Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Upper School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2005 Eve Mutso GUEST ARTIST Sponsored by: Born: Tallinn, Estonia Trained: Tallinn Ballet School Sponsored by: Roseanna Leney ARTIST Born: Frimley, Surrey Araminta Wraith SOLOIST Trained: Royal Ballet School Marge Hendrick SOLOIST Born: London, England Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Born: Paris, France Trained: Royal Ballet School Trained: Conservatoire and English National Ballet Supérieur de Musique et de School Daniela Oddi ARTIST danse de Paris Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Born: Canberra, Australia Joined Scottish Ballet in 2012 Andrew Peasgood SOLOIST Trained: English National Madeline Squire FIRST ARTIST Born: Lincolnshire, England Ballet School Born: London, England Trained: Royal Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Trained: English National Joined Scottish Ballet in 2010 Melissa Parsons ARTIST Ballet School Born: Kent, England Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Luke Schaufuss SOLOIST Trained: Royal Ballet School Born: Surrey, England Joined Scottish Ballet in 2015 Trained: Royal Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Grace Paulley ARTIST Born: London, England Victor Zarallo SOLOIST Trained: Royal Ballet School Born: Barcelona, Spain Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Trained: Institut del Theatre, John Cranko School and Royal Ballet Upper School Claire Souet ARTIST Joined Scottish Ballet in 2008 Born: Bordeaux, France Trained: English National Laura Joffre FIRST ARTIST Ballet School Born: Perpignan, France Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Trained: the Ecole Nationale de Danse de Marseille and in Javier Andreu ARTIST Paris Opera Ballet School Born: Zaragoza, Spain Joined Scottish Ballet in 2010 Trained: Maria Avila Dance Sophie Laplane FIRST ARTIST School Born: Paris, France Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Trained: Paris Opera Ballet School and Conservatoire Matthew Broadbent ARTIST National Supérieur de Paris Born: Zevenaar, Netherlands de Musique et de Danse Trained: Royal Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2004 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2015
Rimbaud Patron FIRST ARTIST Born: Grenoble, France Pascal Johnson ARTIST Trained: Paris Opera Ballet Born: Watford, England School, English National Ballet Trained: Tring Park School for School the Performing Arts Joined Scottish Ballet in 2012 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013
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