Four Temperaments Rubies Cacti Ballet Notes

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Conductor: David Briskin, Music Director and Principal Conductor

The Four Temperaments World Premiere: New York City Ballet, New York City, New York, April 13th, 1967 The National Ballet of Canada Premiere: Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, February 11th, 2000 Choreography: George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust ® Staged by: Joysanne Sidimus The performance of Rubies, a Balanchine Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine TrustՓ and has been produced by arrangement with the Balanchine Style ® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards Music: Paul Hindemith, Theme with Four Variations (according to The Four Temperaments) Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. established and provided by the Trust. and Canadian agent for Schott Music, Mainz, Germany, publisher and copyright owner. Piano Soloist: Andrei Streliaev Rubies is a gift from the Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada. Lighting Design: Ronald Bates Répétiteur: Linsday Fischer A Note on Rubies Rubies is the centerpiece in George Balanchine’s masterwork Jewels, a three act plot-less ballet inspired by the World Premiere: Ballet Society, New York City, New York - Central High School of Needle Trades, beauty of three rare gems – Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds – which was ﬁrst premiered by New York City Ballet November 20, 1946 on April 13, 1967. Set to Igor Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, Rubies is, in a sense, Balanchine’s The National Ballet of Canada Premiere: O’Keefe Centre, Toronto, March 24, 1969. love song to America. Blatant athleticism and classical positions turned inside out are the counterpoints of this ballet. The performance of The Four Temperaments, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine TrustՓ and has been produced by arrangement with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust. Cacti

The Four Temperaments is a gift from The Volunteer Committee, The National Ballet of Canada. Choreography: Alexander Ekman Staged By: Nina Botkay* A Note on The Four Temperaments Music: Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Andy Stein & Gustav Mahler+ Set to a rich and evocative score by Paul Hindemith, The Four Temperaments is a series of variations based on Set Design: Alexandar Ekman and Thomas Visser the ancient concept of the four humours – melancholic, sanguinic, phlegmatic and choleric. Created in 1946, the Costume Design: Alexander Ekman ballet heralded a new age in movement. Balanchine found a different way of executing the steps of classical ballet Lighting Design: Thomas Visser vocabulary, giving dance a whole new look. He challenged his audience with the introduction of ﬂexed feet, extreme Text: Spenser Theberge contrasts and movements that turned in on themselves, rather than the traditional outward options. Classical ballet Répétiteurs: Peter Ottmann, Rex Harrington no longer needed to be airborne, precise and pretty. The Four Temperaments challenged all the senses in a new venue of jarring inventiveness. + Music of the ﬁrst part of Cacti: Originally assembled, improvised and composed by Tinta Schmidt von Altenstadt, David Marks, Saskia Vierson, Artur Trajko and Jan Peiter Koch/musical coordinator. Rubies Music of the second part of Cacti is Symphony (in D Minor), Death and the Maiden Presto by Franz Schubert arranged and orchestrated by Andy Stein.

Choreography: George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust World Premiere: Nederlands Dans Theatre 2, Lucent Dans Theatre, Den Haag, Holland, February 25, 2010. Staged by: Joysanne Sidimus The National Ballet of Canada Premiere: Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, March 9, 2016. Music: Igor Stravinsky, Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher & copyright owner. Piano Soloist: Edward Connell Cacti is a Co-Production between The National Ballet of Canada, Boston Ballet and Atlanta Ballet. Costume Design: Karinska Lighting Design: Robert Thomson Lead philanthropic support for Cacti is made possible by an anonymous friend of the National Ballet and The Répétiteur: Linsday Fischer Producers’ Circle.

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The Four Temperaments Rubies The Producers’ Circle: Gail & Mark Appel, John & Claudine Bailey, Inger Bartlett & Marshal Stearns, David Binet, Susanne Boyce & Brendan Mullen, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Kevin & First Theme Lead Couple Chelsy Meiss and Giorgio Galli (Mar 9, 11, 12 eve) Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté (Mar 9, 11, 12 mat) Roger Garland, Emmanuelle Gattuso and Allan Slaight, The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation, Rosamond Ivey, Kathryn Hosier and Nan Wang (Mar 10, 12 mat, 13) Sonia Rodriguez* and Piotr Stanczyk (Mar 10, 12 eve, 13) Hal Jackman Foundation, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Judith & Robert Lawrie, Mona & Harvey Levenstein, Joan & Jerry Lozinski, The Honourable Margaret Norrie Second Theme Tall Woman McCain, C.C., Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Lynda & Jonas Prince, Susan Scace & Tina Pereira and Skylar Campbell Xiao Nan Yu (Mar 9, 12 eve) Arthur Scace, C.M., Q.C., Sandra Simpson and Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont. (Mar 9, 11, 12 eve) Hannah Fischer* (Mar 10, 12 mat) Jordana Daumec and Skylar Campbell (Mar 10, 12 mat, 13) Alexandra MacDonald* (Mar 11, 13) *Made possible by a generous donation from The Frank Gerstein Charitable Foundation. Third Theme Jordana Daumec, Chelsy Meiss, Jenna Savella, A Note on Cacti Elena Lobsanova and Jack Bertinshaw (Mar 9, 11, 12 mat) Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, Rui Huang, Calley Skalnik or Tanya Howard and Christopher Gerty (Mar 10, 12 eve, 13) Cacti, the ﬁrst co-production between The National Ballet of Canada, Boston Ballet and Atlanta Ballet, is a witty, Kathryn Hosier, Tanya Howard, Andreea Olteanu tongue-in-cheek, thought provoking work by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman that satirizes modern First Variation: Melancholic dance and the critical response. The piece is a wonderful choreographic treat, full of startlingly inventive uses of Dylan Tedaldi or Spencer Hack, Skylar Campbell, Harrison James* (Mar 9, 11, 12 eve) Robert Stephen or Donald Thom, Jack Bertinshaw or space, sound and physical design. Robert Stephen* (Mar 10, 12 mat, 13) Giorgio Galli

Jordana Daumec and Jenna Savella (Mar 9, 12 eve) Selene Guerrero-Trujillo and Rui Huang (Mar 10, 12 mat, 13) Cacti Running Time Jordana Daumec and Rui Huang (Mar 11) Women The Four Temperaments 30m Andreea Olteanu, Clare Peterson, Larissa Khotchenkova, Jordana Daumec, Rhiannon Fairless, Rui Huang, Intermission 20m Calley Skalnik Stephanie Hutchison or Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, Rubies 20m Alexandra MacDonald, Chelsy Meiss, Andreea Olteanu or Intermission 20m Second Variation: Sanguinic Soo Ah Kang, Meghan Pugh or Emma Hawes Cacti 30m Svetlana Lunkina* and Naoya Ebe* (Mar 9, 12 eve) Jurgita Dronina* and Dylan Tedaldi* (Mar 10, 13) Total (approx) 2h Men Jenna Savella* and McGee Maddox* (Mar 11, 12 mat) Jack Bertinshaw, Skylar Campbell, Naoya Ebe, Erika Delponte, Meghan Pugh, Miyoko Koyasu, Spencer Hack, Brent Parolin, Ben Rudisin, Soo Ah Kang Robert Stephen or Giorgio Galli, Dylan Tedaldi

Third Variation: Phlegmatic Solo String Quartet

The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges the support of the following: Evan McKie* (Mar 9, 11, 12 eve) Aaron Schwebel, Violin Brendan Saye* (Mar 10, 12 mat, 13) Dominique Laplante, Violin Angela Rudden, Viola Tanya Howard or Rhiannon Fairless, Maurizio Baccante, Cello Kathryn Hosier or Jaclyn Oakley, Rhiannon Fairless or We acknowledge the financial support of the Bringing the arts to life The Government of Ontario through the The Volunteer Committee, Alexandra MacDonald, Hannah Fischer *Debut Government of Canada De l'art plein la vie Honourable Michael Coteau, Minister of The National Ballet through the Department Tourism, Culture and Sport. of Canadian Heritage of Canada via the Endowment Fourth Variation: Choleric All casting subject to change. Incentives component of the Canada Cultural Alexandra MacDonald* (Mar 9, 12 mat) Investment Fund. Xiao Nan Yu (Mar 10, 11) Heather Ogden* (Mar 12 eve, 13) The National Ballet of Canada operates under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The National Ballet of Canada is a member of the Canadian Dance Assembly and Dance/USA. and Artists of the Ballet

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