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Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, Stevie VanBronkhorst TABLE OF CONTENTS Production Artists and Graphic Design 7 Greetings from the Artistic Director 46 Orchestra Mike Hathaway Sales Director & Principal Choreographer 48 San Francisco Ballet Staff Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, 8 San Francisco Ballet Leadership Terri Reed 50 Donor Events and News San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 9 Board of Trustees Endowment Foundation Board 56 Season Sponsors Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning 1 0 For Your Information 58 Great Benefactors Seattle Area Account Executives

Carol Yip 1 1 Timeline 59 Artistic Director's Council Sales Coordinator 1 2 Explore Ballet 60 The Chairman's Council

14 Artists of the Company 62 The Christensen Society

EMG 22 Program 05 66 Corporate and Foundation Support CITY NTL BANK Robbins: Ballet & Broadway MASTHEAD Opus 19/The Dreamer 68 The Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle Other 70 San Francisco Ballet Paul Heppner President Endowment Foundation

Mike Hathaway 32 Program 06 73 Thank You to Our Volunteers Vice President Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier Genay Genereux Special guest engagement by 74 San Francisco War Memorial Accounting & Office Manager The National Ballet of Canada and Performing Arts Center Shaun Swick Senior Designer & Digital Lead 40 About The National Ballet of Canada Barry Johnson Digital Engagement Specialist San Francisco Ballet | Program Book | Vol. 25, No. 6 2018 Repertory Season Ciara Caya All editorial material © San Francisco Ballet, 2018 Customer Service Representative & Chris Hellman Center for Administrative Assistant 455 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 415 861 5600 | sfballet.org Cover: The National Ballet of Canada's Francesco Gabriele Frola in Corporate Office Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier // © Karolina Kuras th 425 North 85 Street Seattle, WA 98103 Above, left to right: San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' Fancy Free // © Erik Tomasson p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 The National Ballet of Canada's Guillaume Côté in Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier // © Aleksandar Antonijevic [email protected] 800.308.2898 x105 www.encoremediagroup.com FOLLOW US BEFORE AND AFTER THE PERFORMANCE!

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PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 5 San Francisco Ballet School 2018 Student Showcase MAY 23 – 25, 2018

AN INVITATION TO DANCE San Francisco Ballet School 2018 Student Showcase

May 23–25, 2018

Celebrating its 25th year, the San Francisco Ballet School Student Showcase PERFORMANCE AND DINNER demonstrates the School’s remarkable accomplishments throughout the DATE | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 year and gives audiences the rare opportunity to experience a performance TIME | Performance at 6 pm, followed by dinner by the next generation of ballet professionals. Following the opening night performance on May 23, the SF Ballet Auxiliary hosts An Invitation to Dance: VENUES | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater San Francisco Ballet School 2018 Student Showcase Dinner at Four Seasons and Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco Hotel San Francisco. The evening will celebrate the achievements of the students and faculty of SF Ballet School and raise funds to support the Ms. Donna Bachle, 2018 Student Showcase Chair School’s scholarship and financial aid programs.

Full evening tickets to the Wednesday opening night dinner and performance begin at $500 for adults and $200 for children. PERFORMANCE DATES Performance-only tickets begin at $50. Wednesday, May 23 at 6 pm Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 pm Friday, May 25 at 7:30 pm

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San Francisco Ballet School students in Tomasson’s Meistens Mozart // © Erik Tomasson 6 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 GREETINGS FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER San Francisco Ballet School I’m delighted you’ve joined us here in the House for the fifth 2018 Student Showcase and sixth programs of our 2018 Repertory Season. From March 20 MAY 23 – 25, 2018 to 25, San Francisco Ballet performs four works by , and from April 3 to 8, our guest company The National Ballet of Canada will present John Neumeier’s Nijinsky.

These programs both feature the work of cultural icons. Jerome Robbins, widely known for his award-winning work on and , made an indelible mark on the field of ballet as well. I first met him as a young dancer in Iceland; he arranged a scholarship for me to study ballet in . I later worked with him at , and danced in many of his , including two of the ballets on this program, Opus 19/The Dreamer and . He was a mentor to me, and a friend.

The four ballets on our Robbins program show his enormous range as a choreographer, from the nocturnal mystery of Opus 19/The Dreamer to the ferocity of The Cage and the charm of Other Dances. Both Robbins and his frequent collaborator were born in 1918, a centennial we’re commemorating with Fancy Free, the high-spirited ballet Robbins created to Bernstein’s music, later expanded into the Broadway musical (and film) .

I’m thrilled to welcome The National Ballet of Canada here to AN INVITATION TO DANCE San Francisco with John Neumeier’s Nijinsky. This company, led by , has extraordinary dancers, and I am looking forward to seeing them here in San Francisco for the first time in a decade. John Neumeier created an unconventional San Francisco Ballet School portrait of , who himself was both unconventional and iconic. The National Ballet of Canada was the first 2018 Student Showcase company Neumeier allowed to perform this ballet outside of , and these dancers bring a wonderful depth May 23–25, 2018 and authenticity to the work.

Celebrating its 25th year, the San Francisco Ballet School Student Showcase PERFORMANCE AND DINNER While The National Ballet of Canada is onstage at the Opera House performing Nijinsky, SF Ballet dancers will be busy demonstrates the School’s remarkable accomplishments throughout the DATE | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in our studios preparing for Unbound: A Festival of New Works. In the Unbound festival’s four programs, we’ll dance an year and gives audiences the rare opportunity to experience a performance TIME | Performance at 6 pm, followed by dinner unprecedented 12 world premieres by 12 international choreographers. Gathering this many artists to create new work by the next generation of ballet professionals. Following the opening night provides audiences a rare overview of the movement and ideas that a dozen of the most interesting minds in ballet are performance on May 23, the SF Ballet Auxiliary hosts An Invitation to Dance: VENUES | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater San Francisco Ballet School 2018 Student Showcase Dinner at Four Seasons and Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco exploring at this particular moment in time. I hope you’ll join us again for Unbound, April 20–May 6. Hotel San Francisco. The evening will celebrate the achievements of the students and faculty of SF Ballet School and raise funds to support the Ms. Donna Bachle, 2018 Student Showcase Chair School’s scholarship and financial aid programs. Sincerely,

Full evening tickets to the Wednesday opening night dinner and performance begin at $500 for adults and $200 for children. PERFORMANCE DATES Performance-only tickets begin at $50. Wednesday, May 23 at 6 pm Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 pm Friday, May 25 at 7:30 pm Helgi Tomasson Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer

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San Francisco Ballet School students in Tomasson’s Meistens Mozart // © Erik Tomasson PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 7 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET LEADERSHIP

HELGI TOMASSON GLENN MCCOY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER

Helgi Tomasson, one of the supreme Glenn McCoy’s career in the classical dancers of his generation, has performing arts spans more led San Francisco Ballet for 33 years than 30 years of operations and is the longest-serving sole artistic management and marketing. director of a major ballet company. Born in After working for San Francisco Iceland, he danced with Harkness Ballet, Opera and the , The , and New York City Ballet, where he distinguished he joined San Francisco Ballet in 1987. He served as company himself as a dancer of technical purity, , and intelligence. manager and general manager before being appointed executive Tomasson assumed leadership of SF Ballet in 1985. Under his guidance, director in April 2002. McCoy has overseen the production of SF Ballet has developed into a company widely recognized as one of more than 60 new repertory and full-length ballets and more than the finest in the world. Tomasson has balanced devotion to the classics 45 domestic and international tours, including engagements in with an emphasis on new work, cultivating frequent collaborations and Paris, London, New York, Beijing, and Washington, DC. He commissions with renowned choreographers such as William Forsythe, supervised SF Ballet’s operations for the critically acclaimed , , and Mark Morris, among international dance festival, UNited We Dance, in 1995 and others. Tomasson has choreographed more than 50 works for SF Ballet, SF Ballet’s 75th Anniversary Season in 2008. He has overseen including full-length productions of , The Sleeping Beauty, tapings of Lubovitch’s Othello, Tomasson’s Nutcracker, and Romeo & Juliet (taped for Lincoln Center at the Movies’ Great American Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid, which have been broadcast on Dance), , and Nutcracker (taped for PBS’s Great Performances). PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York’s performing arts series He conceptualized the 1995 UNited We Dance festival, in which Great Performances, as well as Tomasson’s Romeo & Juliet, SF Ballet hosted 12 international companies; the 2008 New Works which premiered in Lincoln Center at the Movies’ Great American Festival, which included 10 world premieres by 10 acclaimed Dance series in 2015. choreographers; and this season’s Unbound: A Festival of New Works. Tomasson has also connected SF Ballet to the world, through co-commissions with , , and ; and major tours to Paris, London, New York City, China, and his native Iceland.

MARTIN WEST PATRICK ARMAND MUSIC DIRECTOR & DIRECTOR, PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL

Martin West leads an Orchestra that is as Born in , , Patrick musically excellent as it is adventurous. Armand studied with Rudy Bryans, Under his direction the Orchestra has his mother Colette Armand, and at greatly expanded its catalog of recordings. the École de Danse de Marseille. Born in Bolton, , he studied math He won the in at Cambridge. After studying music at the 1980 and continued his studies Royal Academy of Music in London and St. Petersburg Conservatory at the School of American Ballet. In 1981, he joined the Ballet of Music, he made his debut with and was Théâtre Français de Nancy and was promoted to appointed resident conductor. As a guest conductor, he has worked in 1983. The following year he joined English National Ballet, with New York City Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, and where he danced for six years before joining in The Royal Ballet. He was named music director of SF Ballet in 2005. 1990. A frequent guest teacher for schools and companies in West’s recordings with SF Ballet Orchestra include the complete Amsterdam, Florence, London, Naples, Tokyo, and Toronto, score of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and an album of suites from Delibes’ Armand was appointed teacher and of the Teatro and Coppélia. He also conducted for the award-winning DVD of alla Scala in Milan in 2006. In 1998 and 2009, he served as a jury Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid as well as SF Ballet’s televised recording member of the Prix de Lausanne and since 2010 has been the of Nutcracker for PBS and the 2015 in-cinema release of Romeo & Juliet competition’s official male coach and teacher. He was appointed for Lincoln Center at the Movies’ Great American Dance. principal of the SF Ballet School Trainee Program in 2010, SF Ballet School associate director in 2012, and director of SF Ballet School in 2017.

Head shots: Tomasson, West, and Armand // © Erik Tomasson; McCoy // © Chris Hardy

8 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION Board of Trustees 2017–18 GLENN MCCOY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CARL F. PASCARELLA, Chair of the Board and Executive Committee

Chris Hellman† (1933–2017) Jola Anderson Christine Russell Stephanie Marver Chair Emerita Kristen A. Avansino Randee Seiger Nancy H. Mohr Richard C. Barker Robert G. Shaw Marie-Louise Pratt John S. Osterweis† Karen S. Bergman Christine E. Sherry George R. Roberts Immediate Past Chair Gary Bridge Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Kathleen Scutchfield Margaret G. Gill Chaomei Chen Catherine Slavonia Robert M. Smelick Vice Chair Hannah Comolli David Hooker Spencer Susan A. Van Wagner James H. Herbert II† Christine Leong Connors Fran A. Streets Dennis Wu Vice Chair David C. Cox Judy C. Swanson Akiko Yamazaki Susan P. Diekman Richard J. Thalheimer Lucy Jewett Kate Duhamel Jennifer M. Walske Vice Chair Sonia H. Evers Miles Archer Woodlief ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES James D. Marver Shelby M. Gans Timothy C. Wu Brenda Leff Vice Chair Joseph C. Geagea Janice Hansen Zakin President, Richard Gibbs, M.D. San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary Diane B. Wilsey Beth Grossman Vice Chair Patricia D. Knight Matthew T. Hobart TRUSTEES EMERITI President, BRAVO Nancy Kukacka Patrick M. Hogan Michael C. Abramson Treasurer Thomas E. Horn Thomas W. Allen Christopher Correa Jennifer J. McCall Donald F. Houghton (1929–2017) Marjorie Burnett President, ENCORE! Secretary Hiro Iwanaga Charles Dishman Stewart McDowell Brady, Elaine Kartalis Garrettson Dulin, Jr.† Susan S. Briggs Patrice Lovato James C. Katzman Millicent Dunham Assistant Secretary Co-Chairs, Allegro Circle Yasunobu Kyogoku J. Stuart Francis† Helgi Tomasson Kelsey Lamond Sally Hambrecht Artistic Director & Marie O’Gara Lipman Ingrid Von Mangoldt Hills Principal Choreographer Mark G. Lopez George B. James II† (1937–2017) Glenn McCoy* Alison Mauzé Pamela J. Joyner† Executive Director Marissa Mayer David A. Kaplan Kurt C. Mobley Mary Jo Kovacevich PATRICK ARMAND Kara Roell James J. Ludwig† DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION Board of Directors 2017–18

JAMES D. MARVER, President

John S. Osterweis Kevin Mohr‡ Richard C. Barker Chris Hellman (1933–2017) President Emeritus Chief Financial Officer Susan S. Briggs Director Emerita J. Stuart Francis Hank J. Holland Laura Simpson‡ George B. James II (1937–2017) Nancy Kukacka Vice President Secretary Director Emeritus Hilary C. Pierce Thomas E. Horn Elizabeth Lani‡ Larissa K. Roesch Treasurer Assistant Secretary

†Past Chair *Non-Trustee ‡Non-Director

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 9 FOR YOUR INFORMATION

IN THE OPERA HOUSE PLEASE NOTE Beverages in the auditorium are allowed if they are purchased in the Opera Late seating isn’t allowed while a performance is in progress. House and are in the approved compostable cup with a lid. You’ll be asked to stand until a break in the action, which might be at intermission. The Café at the Opera House on the Lower Lounge level opens two hours prior to curtain time—and is also open during intermission. Call Audio/visual recordings of any kind of the performance are strictly 415 861 8150 for reservations. forbidden.

Refreshments are available on the lower level as well as the Box, Orchestra, Mobile devices should be turned off and put away before the and Dress Circle levels. There are drinking fountains on all levels near performance; the lights and sounds are a distraction. the elevators. Children attending a performance must have a ticket and occupy that The Shop at SF Ballet is open one hour before each performance, during seat; no infants or lap sitting, please. Children need to be at least five intermissions, and after weekend matinees, even if you’re not attending the years old to attend Repertory Season performances. performance itself (visit the Box Office for a special pass). The Shop is also Smoking is not permitted in the Opera House. online at sfballet.org/shop. Opera House management reserves the right to remove any patron who Restrooms are located on all floors except Main Lobby level (first floor). is creating a disturbance. Coat and parcel check rooms are located on the north and south side of Emergency services are available in the Opera House Lower Lounge the Main Lobby. All parcels, backpacks, and luggage must be checked. level, where an EMT is on duty. Opera glasses are available for $5 rental at the north lobby coat check Walking tours of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts room and require a valid ID as a deposit. Center are available most Mondays at select hours. For information, Lost & Found is located at the north coat check room. Call 415 621 6600, call 415 552 8338. Mon–Fri, 8:30–11:30 am, or email [email protected]. ACCESSIBILITY Courtesy telephones, for local calls only, are on the Main Lobby level, SF Ballet is committed to providing access for all of our patrons. across from the elevators. Please contact Ticket Services at 415 865 2000 prior to the Chariot shuttles are available from the Civic Center/UN Plaza BART Station performance with questions so that we can ensure your comfort. at Grove Street and Hyde Street to the War Memorial Opera House Wheelchair-accessible entrances are available on the north, east, (301 Van Ness Avenue) one hour before and one hour after performances. and south sides of the Opera House. This complimentary shuttle service will be available for all 2018 Repertory Season performances, unless otherwise noted. Wheelchair seating positions are on the Orchestra and Dress Circle levels. Taxis line up after performances at the Grove Street Taxi Ramp on the south side of the Opera House. Taxis are provided on a first-come, Wheelchair accessible stalls in restrooms can be found on all floors first-served basis and we cannot guarantee availability. Our staff will except the Main Lobby and fifth floor Balcony level. A lockable assist you. single-user, special-needs restroom is located on Floor 3. Please see the usher closest to this location for access. Accessible drinking Reducing waste is important to us. We’re using recyclable and compostable fountains are located on all floors except the Balcony level. materials for food service. Please help our efforts by sorting items into our recycling bins (hard plastic wine glasses, bottles, cans, and paper Assistive listening devices (Sennheiser model infrared sound programs), compost bins (lidded cups, disposable cutlery, napkins, and amplification headsets) are available at both coat check locations most food containers), and landfill (potato chip bags). in the Main Lobby. A major credit card or driver’s license is required for deposit.

PURCHASING TICKETS You can order online at sfballet.org or call Ticket Services at 415 865 2000, Mon–Fri, 10 am–4 pm. On performance dates, phones are open from 10 am until the performance begins. The SF Ballet Box Office in the Opera House is open only on performance dates: Tues–Fri, noon through the first intermission; Sat and Sun, 10 am through the first intermission. During the hour prior to curtain, the Box Office only handles business for the upcoming show.

Groups of 10 or more can save up to 30 percent. For information, visit sfballet.org/groups or call 415 865 6785.

10 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 TIMELINE

A tradition of innovation flows through the history of San Francisco Ballet. As the oldest professional ballet company in the U.S., SF Ballet builds upon strong classical roots, while continually exploring and redefining where the art form is headed. Interwoven with SF Ballet milestones are key moments in the lives of Jerome Robbins and Vaslav Nijinsky, and of our guest company, The National Ballet of Canada.

1909 1913 Vaslav Nijinsky leaves Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring 1918 for Paris with sparks a riot in Paris. Jerome Robbins and Leonard the Ballets Russes. Nijinsky as a young man Bernstein are born.

1942 1933 San Francisco Ballet The San Francisco Opera splits from the opera Ballet and San Francisco 1919 with Willam Christensen Ballet School are founded. Nijinsky performs in public for as artistic director. SF Opera Ballet in Scheherezade the last time. His diaries record Willam Christensen his declining mental health. as Romeo The National Ballet of Canada’s Guillaume Côté portraying Nijinsky at his last performance in Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier

1944 1959 Robbins choreographs Robbins notices a Fancy Free, set to a score by talented young dancer in a young Leonard Bernstein. 1951 Iceland and encourages John Kriza, , Jerome Robbins The National Ballet of Canada Helgi Tomasson to come and Shirley Eckl in Fancy Free is founded by Celia Franca. to New York to dance.

1974 1973 1985 Robbins choreographs John Neumeier becomes director to a Bernstein and chief choreographer of Hamburg Tomasson becomes score. Tomasson Ballet. becomes artistic director of dances the male lead. associate artistic director of San Francisco Ballet. Helgi Tomasson with Jerome Robbins SF Ballet. Helgi Tomasson and Leonard Bernstein

2005 Karen Kain, longtime star of The National Ballet of Canada, is named its artistic director. 2000 Karen Kain 2018 John Neumeier creates his Unbound: A Festival of New Works ballet Nijinsky. premieres 12 ballets by 12 The National Ballet of Canada’s international choreographers. Guillaume Côté in Nijinsky Miranda Silveira

For a complete history of San Francisco Ballet, visit sfballet.org/history. Historic Nijinsky photo courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada. Photo of Guillaume Côté in Nijinsky // © Aleksandar Antonijevic; Historic SF Ballet photos courtesy of the Museum of Performance + Design. Photo of Fancy Free // © Courtesy of Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library; 1974 Dybbuk rehearsal photo // © ; Nijinsky performance image // © Erik Tomasson; Karen Kain head shot // © Karolina Kuras. 2018 photo of Miranda Silveira // © Erik Tomasson.

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 11 EXPLORE BALLET CURTAIN TALKS AND PODCASTS For an inside look at the performance you’re about to see, come to the Opera House a bit early for a Meet the Artist interview or a Pointes of View lecture. You can also listen to our two new podcasts: To the Pointe, for an in-depth exploration of the upcoming performance, and Demi-Pointe, for a quick overview. All SF Ballet podcasts, including recordings of our Meet the Artist interviews and Pointes of View lectures, are available on our website and on all podcast players, including Apple Podcasts. For more information: sfballet.org/explore/podcasts

MEET THE ARTIST (MTA) INTERVIEWS Fridays, 7–7:30 pm and Sundays, 1–1:30 pm, Free and open to all ticket holders before or after selected performances. Check sfballet.org/explore/curtain-talks for additional MTA dates and times during Unbound: A Festival of New Works. Meet the Artist interviews feature an artist who worked on the performance.

POINTES OF VIEW (POV) LECTURES Wednesdays, 6–6:45 pm, Free and open to the public Company artists, visiting scholars, and others offer key insights into the performance. All are welcome—you don't even need a ticket.

Program 05 | Robbins: Ballet & Broadway Programs 07 & 08 | Unbound: A Festival of New Works March 21 April 25 In honor of the Jerome Robbins Centennial, Associate Director of What does it take to put on a festival like Unbound? SF Ballet Audience Engagement Jennie Scholick, PhD will briefly discuss the writer Cheryl A. Ossola hosts a panel discussion on the creation many facets of Jerome Robbins’ talents, including his successes on of new work at San Francisco Ballet and why SF Ballet has made Broadway and as a ballet choreographer, followed by a discussion new a guiding principle. General Manager Debra with SF Ballet dancers about performing Robbins’ ballets and his Bernard, Production Director Christopher Dennis, and Ballet impact on other contemporary choreographers. Master and Assistant to the Artistic Director Ricardo Bustamante discuss how Unbound came together and the stories behind Program 06 | Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier, the festival. danced by The National Ballet of Canada April 4 May 2 SF Ballet’s Scholar-in-Residence, Carrie Gaiser Casey, PhD, will lead Principal Dancer Tiit Helimets demonstrates the differences a discussion of the dramatic life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky, with a between classical, neoclassical, and contemporary ballet with focus on John Neumeier’s provocative ballet and the many historical SF Ballet School students, followed by a discussion with Dance figures who appear within it. Educator Mary Wood.

SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, MASTER CLASSES, AND MORE From lectures to social events, we offer opportunities to explore the method behind the magic you see onstage.

BALLET TALK WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT UPCOMING PERFORMANCES? Join us for a 60-minute talk and Q & A, followed by a wine-and-cheese Meet Aurora, SF Ballet’s new chatbot and resident expert on all reception with the speaker. things ballet. To engage with her, just start a conversation with SF Ballet on Facebook Messenger and say “Hi Aurora.” Learn Breaking Bounds: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Cathy Marston, about the production, the Opera House, and and New Perspectives in Ballet Choreography our dancers—and you may even get to hear April 7, 5–6:30 pm Facilitated by Carrie Gaiser Casey, PhD from a dancer or two! You can meet her by opening the Messenger app on your phone, clicking “Scan Code,” and scanning this QR BOUNDLESS: A SYMPOSIUM code; or by going to ON BALLET’S FUTURE http://m.me/sfballet April 27–29 LOVED THE MUSIC AT THE PERFORMANCE? Three days of discussions among artists, scholars, and critics will explore Listen to it when you get home by checking out SF Ballet’s Spotify how issues around choreography, diversity, and technology are shaping playlists. You’ll find recordings of the music played tonight— ballet’s future. For more information: sfballet.org/boundless and get the opportunity to prep for upcoming programs.

AMERICAN BALLET 1900–1983 August 2018 (dates to be announced) How did American ballet get its start? Join us for an interactive three-session seminar that will explore the roots of American ballet, from Anna Pavlova to Lew Christensen to .

12 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 DANCE FOR ALL AGES Let your spirit soar as you experience the joy of dancing in our beautiful studios. ADULT BALLET CLASSES CHILDREN’S AUDITIONS FOR SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL Our open classes are inclusive and fun, a good workout that stretches June 2 your artistry as well as your muscles. Open to adults and teens over Pursue a love of dance. For children with an interest in dance or the the age of 16 with basic ballet experience, classes start at the barre, dream of becoming a ballet dancer, San Francisco Ballet School offers then move to the center through traditional ballet exercises and a training program of unqualified excellence. We’re holding auditions combinations. Be prepared to sweat (at least a little) and to have a for our 2018–19 School Year program on June 2. To be eligible to good time. It is recommended that true ballet beginners start with audition, students must be age 8–11 by September 1, 2018. For more our Beginner Ballet series. We want to make sure you get the full information and to register: sfballet.org/school/auditions attention of our teachers, so we limit enrollment to 30 students per class. Classes fill quickly—reserve your spot today. For more BALLET FOR YOUNG CHILDREN information: sfballet.org/adultballet Give your child the gift of dance! Learning the joy of movement begins with Pre-Ballet classes at San Francisco Ballet School. We introduce ADULT BEGINNER BALLET SERIES young children ages 4–7 to the fundamentals of classical ballet, April 7–May 19 focusing on proper body alignment, basic ballet technique and Saturdays, 2:30–4 pm terminology, and musicality. Audition not required. Fall 2018 classes Taught by Cecelia Beam will be open for enrollment beginning in April. For more information It’s never too late to start taking ballet. This seven-session beginner about free trial classes: sfballet.org/preballet series is for those who are new to ballet and those who would like to get a handle on the basics. Instruction will be broken down to the SUMMER BALLET CAMP core elements and then built each week so that you’ll finish feeling July 9–August 3 confident and excited to continue your training. For more information: The second year of our popular Summer Ballet Camp, taught by

sfballet.org/adultballet SF Ballet School Faculty, will take place in the Richmond district studios of Ballet with Miss Tilly. In addition to four different one-week DANCE SERIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE ballet camps for children ages 8–12 years old, Pre-Ballet classes will In partnership with Kaiser Permanente, we're offering free dance be offered for children ages 4–7. No audition is required. For more classes designed for people with Parkinson’s Disease. Classes develop information: sfballet.org/school/summer-sessions individual artistic expression while honoring PD concerns such as balance, flexibility, coordination, isolation, and depression. The next SUMMER DANCE CAMP two seven-week sessions begin Saturday, April 7 and Wednesday, April 11. June 11–15 For more information, contact Cecelia Beam at [email protected]. Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco (BGCSF) and San Francisco Ballet are partnering to offer the fourth-annual Summer Dance Camp. This ADULT BALLET WORKSHOP free, weeklong dance program is open to BGCSF members, ages 6 June 11–16 and up, and promotes creative expression while encouraging Why do kids always get to have all the fun? SF Ballet School is education through the performing arts. BGCSF members will have the organizing the second-annual summer dance workshop just for adults. opportunity to take a range of classes in ballet, hip hop, world dance, Join acclaimed faculty and special guests in daily ballet technique and music from professional teaching artists onsite at San Francisco and repertory classes in our beautiful studios with live accompaniment. Ballet School. Summer Dance Camp will be open for enrollment Dance lovers from across the country will unite in San Francisco this beginning in April. For more information: sfballet.org/dancecamp summer to share in a one-week experience of a dancer’s life at SF Ballet. For more information: sfballet.org/adultballetworkshop

All Audience Engagement Programs are subject to change. The views, opinions, and information expressed are strictly those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent or imply any official position of San Francisco Ballet. For more information about these programs, visit sfballet.org/explore or email [email protected].

Right: San Francisco Ballet School faculty member Kristi DeCaminada instructing students in a Pre-Ballet class // © Chris Hardy

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 13 ARTISTS OF THE COMPANY

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER HELGI TOMASSON

PRINCIPAL DANCERS Dores André Jaime Garcia Castilla Vitor Luiz Yuan Yuan Tan Ulrik Birkkjaer Angelo Greco Ana Sophia Scheller Richard C. Barker Principal Dancer Frances Chung Tiit Helimets Jennifer Stahl† Sarah Van Patten Diana Dollar Knowles Principal Dancer Sasha De Sola Luke Ingham Sofiane Sylve Joseph Walsh Carlo Di Lanno Maria Kochetkova Diane B. Wilsey Principal Dancer John and Barbara Osterweis Mathilde Froustey Herbert Family Principal Dancer Principal Dancer

PRINCIPAL CHARACTER DANCERS Ricardo Bustamante† Val Caniparoli† Rubén Martín Cintas Anita Paciotti†

SOLOISTS Max Cauthorn† Jahna Frantziskonis Steven Morse† Lauren Strongin Isabella DeVivo† Esteban Hernandez Julia Rowe† Wei Wang† Daniel Deivison-Oliveira† Koto Ishihara† James Sofranko Hansuke Yamamoto WanTing Zhao†

CORPS DE BALLET Kamryn Baldwin† Gabriela Gonzalez Kimberly Marie Olivier† Natasha Sheehan† Sean Bennett† Jillian Harvey Sean Orza† Henry Sidford† Ludmila Bizalion† Ellen Rose Hummel† Wona Park† Miranda Silveira† Samantha Bristow† Blake Johnston† Lauren Parrott† John-Paul Simoens† Alexandre Cagnat† Madison Keesler† Elizabeth Powell† Myles Thatcher† Thamires Chuvas† Blake Kessler† Nathaniel Remez† Isabella Walsh† Diego Cruz† Shené Lazarus† Alexander Reneff-Olson† Mingxuan Wang† Megan Amanda Ehrlich Elizabeth Mateer Rebecca Rhodes† Joseph Warton† Benjamin Freemantle† Norika Matsuyama† Emma Rubinowitz† Lonnie Weeks Solomon Golding Davide Occhipinti† Skyla Schreter Maggie Weirich† Ami Yuki†

APPRENTICES Ethan Chudnow† Anatalia Hordov† Carmela Mayo† Swane Messaoudi† Larisa Nugent† Benji Pearson†

BALLET MASTERS & ASSISTANTS TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Ricardo Bustamante† Felipe Diaz†

BALLET MASTERS Betsy Erickson† Anita Paciotti† Katita Waldo†

COMPANY TEACHERS Helgi Tomasson Patrick Armand Ricardo Bustamante† Felipe Diaz†

CHOREOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE MUSIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR Yuri Possokhov Martin West

†Received training at San Francisco Ballet School

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Yuan Yuan Tan Richard C. Barker Principal Dancer Sarah Van Patten Diana Dollar Knowles Principal Dancer Joseph Walsh DORES ANDRÉ JAIME GARCIA CASTILLA John and Barbara Osterweis Born in Vigo, , Dores André Jaime Garcia Castilla was born in Principal Dancer trained with Antonio Almenara and at Madrid, Spain, and studied at Estudio de Danza de Maria de Avila. the Royal Conservatory of Professional She joined the Company in 2004, Dance. He was named an SF Ballet was promoted to soloist in 2012, and apprentice in 2001 and joined the to principal dancer in 2015. Company the following year. He was SASHA DE SOLA promoted to soloist in 2006 and to LUKE INGHAM Anita Paciotti† Born in Winter Park, Florida, principal dancer in 2008. From Mount Gambier, South Australia, Sasha De Sola trained at the Kirov Luke Ingham trained at the Australian Academy of Ballet. She was named an Ballet School. He danced with SF Ballet apprentice in 2006 and joined The Australian Ballet and Houston the Company in 2007. She was promoted Ballet before joining SF Ballet as a Lauren Strongin to soloist in 2012 and principal dancer soloist in 2012. He was promoted in 2017. to principal dancer in 2014. Wei Wang† Hansuke Yamamoto WanTing Zhao†

Natasha Sheehan† Henry Sidford† ULRIK BIRKKJAER ANGELO GRECO Miranda Silveira† Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Born in Nuoro, , Angelo Greco John-Paul Simoens† Ulrik Birkkjaer trained at the trained at La Scala Ballet School Myles Thatcher† School. He in Milan. He danced with La Scala danced with the Royal Danish Ballet Ballet before joining SF Ballet as a Isabella Walsh† before joining San Francisco Ballet soloist in 2016. He was promoted as a principal dancer in 2017. to principal dancer in 2017. Mingxuan Wang† CARLO DI LANNO MARIA KOCHETKOVA Joseph Warton† Carlo Di Lanno was born in Naples, Born in Moscow, Russia, Italy, and trained at La Scala Ballet Maria Kochetkova trained at the Lonnie Weeks School in Milan. He danced with School in Moscow and Maggie Weirich† La Scala Ballet and Staatsballett Berlin danced with The Royal Ballet and before joining San Francisco Ballet English National Ballet before joining Ami Yuki† as a soloist in 2014. He was promoted SF Ballet as a principal dancer in to principal dancer in 2016. 2007. She was appointed Herbert Family Principal Dancer in 2012.

FRANCES CHUNG TIIT HELIMETS Born in Vancouver, Canada, Born in Viljandi, , Tiit Helimets Frances Chung trained at trained at Tallinn Ballet School. He Goh Ballet Academy before joining danced with Estonian National Ballet SF Ballet in 2001. She was and before promoted to soloist in 2005 and joining San Francisco Ballet principal dancer in 2009. as a principal dancer in 2005. MATHILDE FROUSTEY VITOR LUIZ

Mathilde Froustey was born in Born in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, Vitor Luiz Felipe Diaz† Bordeaux, France, and trained at the trained at The Royal Ballet School. He Marseille National School of Ballet danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet and School. She and Ballet do Theatro Municipal do danced with Paris Opera Ballet Rio de Janeiro prior to joining SF Ballet before joining SF Ballet as a principal as a principal dancer in 2009. dancer in 2013.

†Received training at San Francisco Ballet School Dancer head shots // © Chris Hardy and David Allen PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 15 PRINCIPAL DANCERS

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ANA SOPHIA SCHELLER Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ana Sophia Scheller trained at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon and the School of American Ballet. She danced with New York City Ballet before joining SF Ballet as a YUAN YUAN TAN principal dancer in 2017. Yuan Yuan Tan was born in Shanghai, China, and trained at Shanghai Dancing School and Stuttgart’s School. She joined SF Ballet as soloist in 1995 and was promoted to principal RICARDO BUSTAMANTE† dancer in 1997. She was appointed Richard C. Barker Principal Dancer Born in Medellín, Colombia in 2012. Joined in 1980 Named principal character dancer in 2007 VAL CANIPAROLI† Born in Renton, Washington Joined in 1973 Named principal character dancer in 1987

JENNIFER STAHL† Born in Dana Point, California, Jennifer Stahl trained at Maria Lazar’s Classical Ballet Academy and SF Ballet School. She was named an SF Ballet apprentice in 2005 and joined the corps de ballet in 2006. She was promoted to soloist in SARAH VAN PATTEN 2013 and principal dancer in 2017. Sarah Van Patten, born in Boston, Massachusetts, danced with Massachusetts Youth Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet before joining SF Ballet as a soloist in 2002. She was RUBÉN MARTÍN CINTAS promoted to principal dancer in 2007. She was appointed Diana Dollar Born in Reus, Spain Knowles Principal Dancer in 2013. Joined in 2000 Named principal character dancer in 2014 ANITA PACIOTTI† Born in Oakland, California Joined in 1968 Named principal character dancer in 1987

SOFIANE SYLVE Sofiane Sylve was born in Nice, France, where she studied at the Académie de Danse. She danced with ’s Stadttheater, Dutch National Ballet, and New York City Ballet prior to joining SF Ballet as a principal dancer in 2008. She was appointed Diane B. Wilsey JOSEPH WALSH Principal Dancer in 2017. Born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Joseph Walsh trained at Walnut Hill School of the Arts and II. He danced with Houston Ballet before joining SF Ballet as a soloist in 2014. He was promoted to principal dancer that same year. He was appointed John and Barbara Osterweis Principal Dancer in 2017.

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MAX CAUTHORN† STEVEN MORSE† Born in San Francisco, California Born in Harbor City, California Named apprentice in 2013 Joined in 2009 Joined in 2014 Promoted to soloist in 2017 Promoted to soloist in 2017

JAHNA FRANTZISKONIS WEI WANG† Born in Tucson, Arizona Born in Anshan, Liaoning, China Joined in 2015 Named apprentice in 2012 Promoted to soloist in 2017 Joined in 2013 Promoted to soloist in 2016

ISABELLA DEVIVO† JULIA ROWE† Born in Great Neck, New York Born in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Joined in 2013 Joined in 2013 Promoted to soloist in 2017 Promoted to soloist in 2016

ESTEBAN HERNANDEZ HANSUKE YAMAMOTO Born in Guadalajara, Mexico Born in Chiba, Japan Joined in 2013 Joined in 2001 Promoted to soloist in 2017 Promoted to soloist in 2005

DANIEL DEIVISON-OLIVEIRA† JAMES SOFRANKO Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Born in Marion, Indiana Joined in 2005 Joined in 2000 Promoted to soloist in 2011 Promoted to soloist in 2007

KOTO ISHIHARA† WANTING ZHAO† Born in Nagoya, Japan Born in Anshan, Liaoning, China Joined in 2010 Joined in 2011 Promoted to soloist in 2014 Promoted to soloist in 2016

LAUREN STRONGIN Born in Los Gatos, California Joined as a soloist in 2015 †Received training at San Francisco Ballet School Dancer head shots // © Chris Hardy and David Allen PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 17 CORPS DE BALLET

KAMRYN BALDWIN† MEGAN AMANDA EHRLICH Born in Honolulu, Hawai’i Born in Charleston, South Carolina Joined in 2015 Named apprentice in 2011 Joined in 2012 Returned in 2017

ALEXANDRE CAGNAT† JILLIAN HARVEY Born in Cannes, France Born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Named apprentice in 2016 Named apprentice in 2012 Joined in 2017 Joined in 2012

SEAN BENNETT† BENJAMIN FREEMANTLE† Born in San Francisco, California Born in New Westminster, Named apprentice in 2011 British Columbia, Canada Joined in 2012 Named apprentice in 2014 Joined in 2015

THAMIRES CHUVAS† ELLEN ROSE HUMMEL† Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Born in Greenville, South Carolina Named apprentice in 2014 Named apprentice in 2011 Joined in 2015 Joined in 2012

LUDMILA BIZALION† SOLOMON GOLDING Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Born in London, Named apprentice in 2006 Joined in 2017 Joined in 2007 Returned in 2016

DIEGO CRUZ† BLAKE JOHNSTON† Born in Zaragoza, Spain Born in Charlotte, North Carolina Joined in 2006 Joined in 2017

SAMANTHA BRISTOW† GABRIELA GONZALEZ Born in Media, Pennsylvania Born in Mérida, Mexico Named apprentice in 2014 Joined in 2017 †Received training at San Francisco Ballet School Joined in 2015 Dancer head shots // © Chris Hardy and David Allen

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KAMRYN BALDWIN† MEGAN AMANDA EHRLICH MADISON KEESLER† SEAN ORZA† Born in Honolulu, Hawai’i Born in Charleston, South Carolina Born in Carlsbad, California Born in San Francisco, California Joined in 2015 Named apprentice in 2011 Joined in 2009 Named apprentice in 2007 Joined in 2012 Returned in 2017 Joined in 2008 Returned in 2017

ALEXANDRE CAGNAT† JILLIAN HARVEY NORIKA MATSUYAMA† NATHANIEL REMEZ† Born in Cannes, France Born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Born in Chiba, Japan Born in Washington, DC Named apprentice in 2016 Named apprentice in 2012 Joined in 2014 Named apprentice in 2016 Joined in 2017 Joined in 2012 Joined in 2017

SEAN BENNETT† BENJAMIN FREEMANTLE† BLAKE KESSLER† WONA PARK† Born in San Francisco, California Born in New Westminster, Born in Jacksonville, Florida Born in Seoul, South Korea Named apprentice in 2011 British Columbia, Canada Named apprentice in 2015 Joined in 2017 Joined in 2012 Named apprentice in 2014 Joined in 2016 Joined in 2015

THAMIRES CHUVAS† ELLEN ROSE HUMMEL† DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI† ALEXANDER RENEFF-OLSON† Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Born in Greenville, South Carolina Born in Rome, Italy Born in San Francisco, California Named apprentice in 2014 Named apprentice in 2011 Named apprentice in 2016 Named apprentice in 2012 Joined in 2015 Joined in 2012 Joined in 2017 Joined in 2013

LUDMILA BIZALION† SOLOMON GOLDING SHENÉ LAZARUS† LAUREN PARROTT† Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Born in London, United Kingdom Born in Durban, South Africa Born in Palm Harbor, Florida Named apprentice in 2006 Joined in 2017 Named apprentice in 2016 Named apprentice in 2012 Joined in 2007 Joined in 2017 Joined in 2013 Returned in 2016

DIEGO CRUZ† BLAKE JOHNSTON† KIMBERLY MARIE OLIVIER† REBECCA RHODES† Born in Zaragoza, Spain Born in Charlotte, North Carolina Born in New York, New York Born in Chicago, Illinois Joined in 2006 Joined in 2017 Named apprentice in 2009 Named apprentice in 2008 Joined in 2010 Joined in 2009

SAMANTHA BRISTOW† GABRIELA GONZALEZ ELIZABETH MATEER ELIZABETH POWELL† Born in Media, Pennsylvania Born in Mérida, Mexico Born in Boca Raton, Florida Born in Boston, Massachusetts Named apprentice in 2014 Joined in 2017 †Received training at San Francisco Ballet School Joined in 2016 Named apprentice in 2011 Joined in 2015 Dancer head shots // © Chris Hardy and David Allen Joined in 2012

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EMMA RUBINOWITZ† ISABELLA WALSH† Born in San Francisco, California Born in Rolling Hills, California Named apprentice in 2012 Named apprentice in 2016 Joined in 2013 Joined in 2017

MIRANDA SILVEIRA† MAGGIE WEIRICH† Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Born in Portland, Oregon Named apprentice in 2013 Named apprentice in 2014 Joined in 2014 Joined in 2015

SKYLA SCHRETER MINGXUAN WANG† Born in Chappaqua, New York Born in Qingdao, China Joined in 2014 Named apprentice in 2013 Joined in 2014 FIRST REPUBLIC JOHN-PAUL SIMOENS† AMI YUKI† Born in Omaha, Nebraska Born in Saitama, Japan Named apprentice in 2014 Named apprentice in 2014 Joined in 2015 Joined in 2015

APPRENTICES

NATASHA SHEEHAN† JOSEPH WARTON† ETHAN CHUDNOW† Born in San Francisco, California Born in Beaverton, Oregon ANATALIA HORDOV† Joined in 2016 Joined in 2017 CARMELA MAYO† SWANE MESSAOUDI† LARISA NUGENT† MYLES THATCHER† BENJI PEARSON† Born in Atlanta, Georgia Named apprentice in 2009 Joined in 2010

HENRY SIDFORD† LONNIE WEEKS Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico Named apprentice in 2011 Joined in 2010 †Received training at San Francisco Ballet School Joined in 2012 Dancer head shots // © Chris Hardy and David Allen

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 7/25/17 9:12 AM San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' Opus 19/The Dreamer // © Erik Tomasson PROGRAM ROBBINS: 05BALLET & BROADWAY MAR 20—MAR 25 Program Notes by Cheryl A. Ossola

OPUS 19/THE DREAMER OTHER DANCES Composer: Composer: Frédéric Chopin Choreographer: Jerome Robbins Choreographer: Jerome Robbins Staged by: Lindsay Fischer Staged by: Isabelle Guérin Costume Design: Ben Benson Costume Design: Santo Loquasto Lighting Design: Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton

World Premiere: World Premiere: June 14, 1979—New York City Ballet, May 9, 1976—Gala for the Library of Performing Arts New York State Theater; New York, New York at Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House; New York, New York San Francisco Ballet Premiere: San Francisco Ballet Premiere: January 28, 1986—War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California March 7, 2006—San Francisco Ballet 85th Anniversary Gala, War Memorial Opera House; These performances of Opus 19/The Dreamer are made San Francisco, California possible by Lead Sponsor Mr. Richard C. Barker, and These performances of Other Dances are made possible Sponsor Katherine and Gregg Crawford. by Lead Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. James D. Marver; and Major Sponsors Chaomei Chen and Dr. Yu Wu, and Sue and John Diekman. THE CAGE

Composer: Choreographer: Jerome Robbins FANCY FREE Staged by: Jean-Pierre Frohlich Composer: Leonard Bernstein Scenic Design: Jean Rosenthal Choreographer: Jerome Robbins Costume Design: Ruth Sobotka Staged by: Jean-Pierre Frohlich Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton Scenic Design: Costume Design: World Premiere: Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton June 14, 1951—New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama; New York, New York World Premiere: April 18, 1944—Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera San Francisco Ballet Premiere: House; New York, New York February 5, 1998—War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California San Francisco Ballet Premiere:

These performances of The Cage are made possible March 15, 2007—War Memorial Opera House; by Major Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. James C. Katzman San Francisco, California and David H. Spencer, with additional support from the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund of the San Francisco Ballet These performances of Fancy Free are made possible Endowment Foundation. by Sponsors H. B. and Lucille Horn Foundation, Glenn H. Reid, and BRAVO.

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PROGRAM NOTES

In Opus 19/The Dreamer, choreographer Jerome Robbins conveys a dream state—the fleeting moments of comprehension, obscured reality, loss of control. Robbins, according to his biographers, perpetually searched for fulfillment and kept journals of his dreams. Knowing that makes it impossible to watch this ballet, which premiered in 1979, without thinking that the man at its center is, at least in a distant way, Robbins himself.

The ballet’s two-sided title reflects both its music, Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Opus 19, and its subject—a man grasping for something that seems beyond his reach. The dual title is unusual, and according to Lindsay Fischer, who staged Opus 19/The Dreamer at San Francisco Ballet, the idea was to point out “that this was not a typical New York City Ballet abstract work.” George Balanchine, co-founder of New York City Ballet, often named his works for the music they were set to, which is “so bare bones,” Fischer says. “I think Robbins wanted to make a point— this is not bare bones. It’s not actually an abstract ballet.”

Which raises the question—what is The Dreamer dreaming about? we slip in and out of our dreams. Blue-toned lighting and costumes— Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson, except for The Dreamer, who appears both physically and who danced the role at New York City Ballet, thinks the answer emotionally stripped—convey a sense of nocturnal mystery. is “finding one’s place in the society or the environment you’re in. To help the dancers understand the world they’re in, Fischer uses Jerry [Robbins] didn’t always explain himself verbally very much,” imagery and vivid descriptions in teaching the steps. At one point he says. “He showed you what he wanted and then he would create the principal man should use his back so his arm curves “like the that with you.” arc of the sun,” he says. Commenting on the principal woman’s zigzag walks, he says, “This is gorgeous articulation—don’t do it! Fischer thinks of The Dreamer as an immigrant searching for a Everything should have Vaseline on it.” better life. After all, Robbins was the child of immigrants; he made this ballet on an immigrant (); and an immigrant The corps de ballet men should move with manic energy, Fischer wrote the music. And, as Robbins often did, he inflects the says, “like when you’re pushing your body farther than it can go choreography with Eastern European-inspired . At the and you go into hyperconsciousness.” beginning of the ballet, The Dreamer “reaches out into space, touches the earth, reaches across his body around the level of Everyone in Opus 19/The Dreamer is searching, and because of his heart, reaches out into space again, reaches to the heavens, that, the dancers need to understand that the ballet is about “the to God, to faith,” Fischer says. “It’s a constant reference between power of dreams, the power of intent,” Fischer says. “The ballet self and external.” works when everyone acknowledges how much their own dreams have motivated them and how much of their lives they have chosen The Dreamer’s world looks like a state of foggy semi-consciousness, to spend searching for an ideal. Not every ballet requires utter with shadowy figures and a woman who comes and goes the way vulnerability and introspection, where you say to yourself, ‘This ballet is about my life.’”

Opus 19/The Dreamer does. We see the dream, but only the dancers know what happens when The Dreamer opens his eyes.

PRODUCTION CREDITS Music: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 by Sergei Prokofiev. Jerome Robbins’ Opus 19/The Dreamer is performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. Costumes constructed by Sandra Woodall Costumes, San Francisco, California.

This page, top to bottom: Taras Domitro in Robbins' Opus 19/The Dreamer // © Chris Hardy; Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova in Robbins' Opus 19/The Dreamer // © Chris Hardy Opposite page, head shot: Jerome Robbins // © Fred Ohringer, Jerome Robbins Foundation

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV LINDSAY FISCHER Composer Stager Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), a Russian composer, pianist and Lindsay Fischer is a ballet master conductor, is considered one of the major composers of the with The National Ballet of Canada 20th century. Born in , Prokofiev wrote his first piano and a former dancer. Born in composition at age 5, began his first opera at 9 and, at age 23, New York City, Fischer trained at won the Rubinstein prize playing his first piano concerto. He Canada’s National Ballet School. graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music in 1909. He danced with Companhia Among his best known works are (The Love for Three Nacional de Bailado in Oranges, The Fiery Angel, War and Peace), ballets (Romeo and and the Dutch National Ballet before joining New York City Ballet Juliet and Cinderella), and Peter and the Wolf (a monologue with as a principal dancer in 1987. After retiring from the stage in 1995, orchestral accompaniment). In total, Prokofiev completed seven Fischer joined the faculty of Canada’s National Ballet School, where operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, he developed a successful program to help students transition from two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony concerto for training to professional life. Fischer was named ballet master at cello and orchestra and nine piano sonatas. In 1957, his Seventh The National Ballet of Canada in 2007. He also spent eight years Symphony was posthumously awarded a Lenin Prize. as director of the Professional Summer Dance Program at The Banff Centre in Alberta. Fischer is also artistic director of YOU dance, The National Ballet of Canada’s outreach program that introduces JEROME ROBBINS young people to the world of dance and ballet. Fischer has staged Choreographer and rehearsed the works of Balanchine, Robbins, Ashton, and Kylián Jerome Robbins (1918–1989) for companies around the world. was an award-winning American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who BEN BENSON worked in classical ballet, on Costume Designer Broadway, and in films and Ben Benson is remembered for his large body of ballet and theater television. Born in New York City, designs. His 1983 costume designs for Balanchines’s Who Cares? he joined Ballet Theatre (which would become American Ballet were one of George Balanchine’s final wishes. Other costume designs Theatre) and in 1944 choreographed his first work for the company, for Balanchine include and Kammermusik #2. His commissioning a score from a young composer, Leonard Bernstein. designs for New York City Ballet include , , Fancy Free was a hit and Robbins expanded it to become the Opus 19/The Dreamer (Robbins); Magic Flute (Martins); Celebration musical On the Town, which launched his Broadway career. (d’Amboise); Ballet d’Isoline (Tomasson); and Norwegian Moods (Christensen). Benson also designed costumes for Paul Mejia’s In 1949, Robbins left Ballet Theatre to join New York City Ballet as Cinderella for City Ballet of Chicago. His designs for ’ a dancer and associate artistic director, where over the course of Tango were filmed for PBS “Dance in America.” fifty years he created major ballets including Afternoon of a Faun (1953), (1956), (1969), (1970), (1975), Glass Pieces (1983) and Ives, Songs JENNIFER TIPTON (1988). He also created ballets for , his own Lighting Designer company Ballets U.S.A, which toured from 1958–1962, and other Jennifer Tipton is an internationally known, award-winning lighting international companies. His last ballets include A designer who works in dance, theater, and opera. Born in Columbus, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), Ohio, she graduated from and learned dance (1995), and (1996). Robbins’ lighting from Thomas Skelton. Her recent work in dance includes Broadway shows include On the Town, , High Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety for The Royal Ballet and Alexei Button Shoes, West Side Story, , , , Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy for San Francisco Ballet and , , and Fiddler on the Roof. His last American Ballet Theatre, as well as Paul Taylor’s American Dreamer. Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, won six Tipton, who is principal lighting designer for the Paul Taylor Dance including best musical and best director. In addition to Company, also teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She won two for the film West Side Story, Robbins received the 1977 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for The Cherry Orchard, four Tony Awards, five , two Emmy Awards, the 1989 Tony Award for Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and the Drama the Screen Directors' Guild Award, and the New York Drama Critics Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design twice. Tipton received the Circle Award. Robbins was a 1981 recipient Dorothy and Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003, and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la and the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City in April Legion d'Honneur. 2004. In 2008 she was made a Artists “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow.

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 25 and coordination, Frohlich says, but a key part of learning this administrator of New York City Ballet’s “” touring company. ballet is assimilating the body language. For example, “when [the He choreographed Varied Trio (in four) for New York City Ballet in Novice] turns her head, after she kills her first victim, she realizes 2014 and choreographed and directed HOME (revisited), a short dance who she is going to be,” he explains. Standing over the intruder’s narrative film. In 2015, Frohlich was awarded the Officier des Arts et body, she’s like a cat toying with a mouse. By the way she turns Lettres from the French Government’s Ministry of Culture. her head, she conveys that she’s beginning to understand, and accept, what she is. JEAN ROSENTHAL Community is a dominant theme in many of Robbins’ ballets, and Scenic Designer The Cage is no exception. Perhaps, though, it’s also about identity Jean Rosenthal (1912–1969) was an American lighting and set and accepting who we are. designer. Her signature lighting techniques—such as the diagonal shaft of light she created for , lovingly referred to by her as “Martha's Finger of God”—are now considered industry standards. Born and raised in New York City, Rosenthal studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School, where she met Graham, later CREATIVE TEAM spending two years as her technical assistant. After studying theatrical design at Yale, she worked with Ballet Caravan, , and IGOR STRAVINSKY New York City Ballet, on such productions as Balanchine’s La Valse and Composer , as well as Robbins’ The Cage and Afternoon of a Faun. Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was a Rosenthal designed lighting for more than 300 Broadway productions, Russian composer, pianist, and including West Side Story (1957), The Sound of Music (1959), Hello, Dolly! conductor acknowledged as one (1964), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and (1966). Her book, The THE CAGE of the most influential composers Magic of Light: The Craft and Career of Jean Rosenthal, Pioneer in of the 20th century. Born near Lighting for the Modern Stage was published in 1972. PROGRAM NOTES St. Petersburg of Ukrainian parents, Stravinsky studied music with RUTH SOBOTKA It’s been 19 years since Jerome Robbins’ The Cage last invaded looking pretty; they’re supposed to look like creatures, not composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Ballets Russes impresario Costume Designer the War Memorial Opera House stage, and 67 years since its human.” They arch their backs to the breaking point, open their Sergei Diaghilev asked him to write the score for the 1910 premiere premiere shocked audiences. It remains, as Artistic Director and mouths wide enough to dislocate their jaws, crouch, scurry, and of , which catapulted Stravinsky to overnight fame. Ruth Sobotka (1925–1967) was a dancer, designer, and actor also Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson puts it, a strong, intense groom themselves, rubbing one arm atop the other or their wrists He also composed the music for the Ballets Russes’ and known for her collaboration with, and marriage to, director Stanley work. And it’s unlike most of Robbins’ ballets, which “tend to be on their hips. the avant-garde Le Sacre du Printemps, which introduced modernism Kubrick. Born in , Sobotka and her Jewish family emigrated to soft, beautiful, with inventive lifts,” Tomasson says. “Like into music and established Stravinsky as a musical revolutionary. the United States in 1938. She studied set design at the University of Stravinsky was for [George] Balanchine, Chopin was for Robbins— The Cage sprints by in the fewer than 15 minutes it takes to play In 1920, Stravinsky moved to Paris and in 1939 to the U.S., where Pennsylvania and Carnegie Institute before dancing with Ballet Society Dances at a Gathering, in that genre of things. The Cage is the score—Stravinsky’s energetic Concerto in D for String he continued his storied career. His long and significant working and its successor, New York City Ballet, from 1946–1961. Sobotka very dramatic.” Orchestra, “Basler,” written in 1946. “What’s amazing to me,” relationship with George Balanchine started in 1928 with Appollon danced on Broadway in the musicals Sadie Thompson and On Your Frohlich says, “is you’d think the music was written for this ballet, Musagète (later renamed ) and continued with Jeu de Cartes, Toes. She designed the costumes for Robbins’ The Cage as well as for The premise is simple: the Novice is born into a nest of female, and it wasn’t. Jerry came up with this concept for this music, Orpheus, Rubies, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and Agon, works by choreographers Paul Taylor, Erick Hawkins, and John Taras. insect-like creatures, and very soon she discovers that male which shows what a theatrical mind he had.” Frohlich often among others. In 1946, Sobotka appeared as “The Girl” in Man Ray’s section of the intruders are to be dispensed with. The speed and brutality of comments on Robbins’ keen observational skills, which fuel many avant-garde Hans Richter art film Dreams that Money Can Buy. She the kills still send shivers through audiences today, though the of the ideas and movements in his ballets. For example, he made appeared in Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss as the dancer Iris and was art JEROME ROBBINS director of Kubrick’s The Killing. movement is no longer considered radical for ballet. But it remains The Cage for , a New York City Ballet principal dancer Choreographer fascinating, and to get it right, says Jean-Pierre Frohlich, a stager whose cropped hair, drenched after a shower, inspired the with the Robbins Rights Trust, the women “have to forget they’re Novice’s short, sleek hairstyle. It makes the Novice look childlike— See page 25. JENNIFER TIPTON ballet dancers, even though they’re in pointe shoes. It’s not about she is a newborn, after all—and sets her apart from the others, Lighting Designer who have fright-wig hair. JEAN-PIERRE FROHLICH See page 25. Stager For ballet aficionados, it’s hard to ignore the parallels between The Cage and Giselle. Just as Giselle is destined to become a Wili, Born in New York, Jean-Pierre Frohlich trained at the School the Novice must learn the ways of her tribe. Myrtha whips off of American Ballet. As a student, he created roles in George PRODUCTION CREDITS Balanchine’s (1965) and Jerome Robbins’ Music: Concerto in D for String Orchestra, “Basler” (1946), used by arrangement Giselle’s veil; the Queen removes the Novice’s shroud. Giselle with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner. Jerome Robbins’ loves her prince, destined for death; the Novice has a tryst with (1972). He joined New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1972 and was The Cage is performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. Costumes promoted to soloist in 1979. Frohlich became a ballet master in constructed by Barbara Matera, Ltd., New York, New York. Scenic construction a doomed intruder. Robbins never mentioned the similarities, but and painting by San Francisco Ballet Carpentry and Scenic Departments, at the Frohlich sees them. After all, he says, Robbins was a storyteller, 1990, assisting Robbins in staging his ballets, and now maintains San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios. steeped in the story ballets he danced at American Ballet Theatre. and oversees his repertory at NYCB. Upon his death, Robbins appointed Frohlich as a committee member for the Robbins Opposite page, top to bottom: San Francisco Ballet rehearsing Robbins' The Cage // (Fun fact: Robbins first envisioned the women as Amazons and © Erik Tomasson Rights Trust. Frohlich has staged works for companies around equipped them with swords and shields in early rehearsals.) Above, head shot: Igor Stravinsky // George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress the world, including The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Despite the parallels, in terms of dancing, The Cage couldn’t be San Francisco Ballet, and the Paris Opera Ballet, and is the more different from Giselle. The dancers need strength, elasticity, recipient of two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards for his staging (1998, 2006). In 2010, Frohlich was appointed artistic

26 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 27 and coordination, Frohlich says, but a key part of learning this administrator of New York City Ballet’s “MOVES” touring company. ballet is assimilating the body language. For example, “when [the He choreographed Varied Trio (in four) for New York City Ballet in Novice] turns her head, after she kills her first victim, she realizes 2014 and choreographed and directed HOME (revisited), a short dance who she is going to be,” he explains. Standing over the intruder’s narrative film. In 2015, Frohlich was awarded the Officier des Arts et body, she’s like a cat toying with a mouse. By the way she turns Lettres from the French Government’s Ministry of Culture. her head, she conveys that she’s beginning to understand, and accept, what she is. JEAN ROSENTHAL Community is a dominant theme in many of Robbins’ ballets, and Scenic Designer The Cage is no exception. Perhaps, though, it’s also about identity Jean Rosenthal (1912–1969) was an American lighting and set and accepting who we are. designer. Her signature lighting techniques—such as the diagonal shaft of light she created for Martha Graham, lovingly referred to by her as “Martha's Finger of God”—are now considered industry standards. Born and raised in New York City, Rosenthal studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School, where she met Graham, later CREATIVE TEAM spending two years as her technical assistant. After studying theatrical design at Yale, she worked with Ballet Caravan, Ballet Society, and IGOR STRAVINSKY New York City Ballet, on such productions as Balanchine’s La Valse and Composer The Nutcracker, as well as Robbins’ The Cage and Afternoon of a Faun. Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was a Rosenthal designed lighting for more than 300 Broadway productions, Russian composer, pianist, and including West Side Story (1957), The Sound of Music (1959), Hello, Dolly! conductor acknowledged as one (1964), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and Cabaret (1966). Her book, The of the most influential composers Magic of Light: The Craft and Career of Jean Rosenthal, Pioneer in of the 20th century. Born near Lighting for the Modern Stage was published in 1972. St. Petersburg of Ukrainian parents, Stravinsky studied music with RUTH SOBOTKA composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Ballets Russes impresario Costume Designer Sergei Diaghilev asked him to write the score for the 1910 premiere of The Firebird, which catapulted Stravinsky to overnight fame. Ruth Sobotka (1925–1967) was a dancer, designer, and actor also He also composed the music for the Ballets Russes’ Petrushka and known for her collaboration with, and marriage to, director Stanley the avant-garde Le Sacre du Printemps, which introduced modernism Kubrick. Born in Austria, Sobotka and her Jewish family emigrated to into music and established Stravinsky as a musical revolutionary. the United States in 1938. She studied set design at the University of In 1920, Stravinsky moved to Paris and in 1939 to the U.S., where Pennsylvania and Carnegie Institute before dancing with Ballet Society he continued his storied career. His long and significant working and its successor, New York City Ballet, from 1946–1961. Sobotka relationship with George Balanchine started in 1928 with Appollon danced on Broadway in the musicals Sadie Thompson and On Your Musagète (later renamed Apollo) and continued with Jeu de Cartes, Toes. She designed the costumes for Robbins’ The Cage as well as for Orpheus, Rubies, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and Agon, works by choreographers Paul Taylor, Erick Hawkins, and John Taras. among others. In 1946, Sobotka appeared as “The Girl” in Man Ray’s section of the avant-garde Hans Richter art film Dreams that Money Can Buy. She appeared in Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss as the dancer Iris and was art JEROME ROBBINS director of Kubrick’s The Killing. Choreographer

See page 25. JENNIFER TIPTON Lighting Designer JEAN-PIERRE FROHLICH See page 25. Stager Born in New York, Jean-Pierre Frohlich trained at the School of American Ballet. As a student, he created roles in George PRODUCTION CREDITS Balanchine’s Don Quixote (1965) and Jerome Robbins’ Watermill Music: Concerto in D for String Orchestra, “Basler” (1946), used by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner. Jerome Robbins’ (1972). He joined New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1972 and was The Cage is performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. Costumes promoted to soloist in 1979. Frohlich became a ballet master in constructed by Barbara Matera, Ltd., New York, New York. Scenic construction and painting by San Francisco Ballet Carpentry and Scenic Departments, at the 1990, assisting Robbins in staging his ballets, and now maintains San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios. and oversees his repertory at NYCB. Upon his death, Robbins appointed Frohlich as a committee member for the Robbins Opposite page, top to bottom: San Francisco Ballet rehearsing Robbins' The Cage // © Erik Tomasson Rights Trust. Frohlich has staged works for companies around Above, head shot: Igor Stravinsky // George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress the world, including The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and the Paris Opera Ballet, and is the recipient of two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards for his staging (1998, 2006). In 2010, Frohlich was appointed artistic

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 27 INSTANT Robbins Centennial EXPERT When their son Jerry was born on the of in 1918, his parents Lena and Harry Rabinowitz couldn’t have envisioned that he would become one of the most famous choreographers of the 20th century. By the time Jerome Robbins died in 1998, he had choreographed groundbreaking ballets; directed and/or choreographed the Tony Award–winning Broadway shows On the Town, West Side Story, and Fiddler on the Roof; and been associate artistic director of New York City Ballet for almost fifty years. This centennial year is seeing celebrations of Jerry—as he was known to friends and family—around the world. The four works on Robbins: Ballet & Broadway show the wide-ranging talent that makes Robbins’ works classics a full hundred years after his birth. Robbins choreographed Fancy Free (1944) at age 26, and it changed his life. An instant hit, it launched his Broadway career when it was expanded into On the Town. The Cage (1951) was one of Robbins’ first works for New York City Ballet. Set to a score by Igor Stravinsky, it proved that Robbins could hold his own next to George Balanchine—Stravinsky’s greatest collaborator— without copying him: The Cage’s frank sexuality and creature-like movement are a far cry from the abstraction and classicism of Balanchine’s work in the early 50s. Other Dances (1976) is the last of Robbins’ ballets to the music of Frédéric Chopin, completing the quartet of The Concert, Dances at a Gathering, and In the Night. Made for Mikhail Baryshnikov and , this ballet shows the lyrical and nostalgic side of Robbins. And Opus 19/The Dreamer (1979), also made for Baryshnikov but this time with Patricia McBride, is a psychological meditation. Baryshnikov said of the role, “He’s a bit of an outsider, a bit of a loner, a bit of a thinking man; there’s a bit of action, a bit of unrealized romance, which is very much Jerry’s life.”

OTHER DANCES

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At first glance, Other Dances doesn’t look like a showcase for dancing for long; the man is taken aback—and then amused— two ballet megastars. But as it draws you in with its intimacy and when he flubs a turn. And threading throughout the piece is an subtle virtuosity, you begin to note the magic that choreographer undercurrent of love, of the couple for each other, and for dance. Jerome Robbins infused into roughly 18 minutes of ballet perfection. First performed in 1976, Other Dances showed off In rehearsals, former Paris Opera Ballet étoile Isabelle Guérin, its two dancers, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova, a stager of Robbins’ ballets, focuses on technique and nuance, simply but effectively. The ballet’s virtuosity is in its musicality, generating a constant stream of corrections for the dancers. interaction, and simplicity. “Feet! Feet! Feel your metatarsals!” she urges them. She talks about how to present the foot, how to lift and unfold the leg, how to keep The ballet quickly became a showcase for exquisite dancers, the arms simple and the face relaxed. As the dancers do what she including Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet’s artistic director asks, she asks for more—more sparkle, more confidence. “It’s too and principal choreographer. “We loved dancing it,” he says careful,” she tells the women, referring to a partnered turn. “You have about his frequent partner at New York City Ballet, Patricia to trust your partner—it’s his problem.” Talk of breath, of control and McBride. “We danced it a lot.” A framed photograph in his office— freedom, of what each moment requires fills the rehearsal time. of the two of them in performance, Tomasson airborne and McBride watching, delighted—reveals his fondness for this ballet. Guérin’s husband, Jean-Pierre Frohlich, also a Robbins stager, says that Robbins always looked for “a certain quality, or sometimes Set to Chopin like Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering (1969) and a certain look,” but that it’s not true, as some people have said, that In the Night (1970), Other Dances is simply that: other dances to he wanted people to dance like whoever performed a ballet’s Chopin, this time mazurkas and waltzes. The ballet begins premiere. “He wanted the idea of the ballet to be there, but if simply—a couple enters, strolling; they clasp hands and, as an someone performed a different movement and it still worked for onstage pianist begins to play, they dance. Two pas de deux— the ballet, he didn’t care,” Frohlich says. one refined, one pull-out-the-stops—bracket a series of alternating solos, two for each of them. Intimate and exuberant That makes sense for a choreographer who could captivate an at the same time, the ballet has folk-dance steps, dynamic leaps, audience simply by putting two eloquent dancers on a stage with and rapid-fire footwork, demanding everything its two performers a grand piano and an equally grand pianist. As New York City Ballet can give. Through dance, and in small, personal moments, co-founder George Balanchine liked to say, if you put a man and a Robbins shows us who these people are—the woman moves woman together, you’ve got a story. Other Dances is a story about toward the onstage pianist as if to thank him but can’t stop two dancers, about music, and about possibility.

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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN SANTO LOQUASTO Composer Costume Designer

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) is Santo Loquasto is a Tony Award–winning costume and scenic designer considered Poland’s greatest for theater, film, dance, and opera. Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, he started composer. His works, his status as working in summer stock as a teenager. Since his first Broadway show one of music’s earliest superstars, (Sticks and Bones in 1972), he has designed the sets and/or costumes his love life, and his early death for more than 60 Broadway productions, garnering 18 Tony Award have made him a leading symbol of nominations and four wins, for The Cherry Orchard (1977), Grand Hotel the Romantic era. Chopin was born (1990), Café Crown (1989) and Hello, Dolly! (2017). Loquasto has worked in the small village of Zelazowa Wola. A musical prodigy, he was with most major international dance companies and has collaborated performing in elegant salons and writing his own compositions by with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jerome Robbins, , Paul Taylor, the age of eight. He later studied in Warsaw and Vienna, where he Mark Morris, , , and Helgi Tomasson. made his public performance debut in 1829. Over the next few Loquasto is also known for his work in film, notably with . years, Chopin performed in Poland, Germany, Austria, and Paris, He received Academy Award nominations for his work on Radio Days, where he settled in 1832. Bullets Over Broadway, and Zelig. Loquasto was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. During the last 18 years of his life, Chopin gave only 30 public performances, supporting himself by teaching piano and selling his compositions. Most of his works are for solo piano, though he JENNIFER TIPTON wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some songs Lighting Designer to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style is highly individual and often See page 25. technically demanding; his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin’s music remains very popular and is regularly performed, recorded, and broadcast worldwide.

The world’s oldest monographic music competition, the PRODUCTION CREDITS International Chopin Piano Competition, founded in 1927, Music: Mazurka Op.17, No.4; Mazurka Op.41, No.3; Op.64, No.3; is held every five years in Warsaw. Mazurka Op.63, No.2; Mazurka Op.33, No. 2. Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances is performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. Costumes constructed by Christopher Read, Toronto, Canada. JEROME ROBBINS Choreographer See page 25.

ISABELLE GUÉRIN Stager

Isabelle Guérin is a former étoile of Paris Opera Ballet who also teaches and stages ballets. Born in Rosny-sous-Bois, she trained at the Conservatoire de Paris and Paris Opera Ballet School and joined Paris Opera Ballet in 1977. She was given significant roles even in the corps de ballet, notably when selected her for Kitri in his Don Quixote in 1983. Guérin won the Silver Medal at the International Paris Ballet Competition in 1984. She became a soloist that same year and was named étoile in 1985. Guérin danced an extensive repertory of leading roles, including classical story ballets, contemporary and neoclassical works, and new works by choreographers such as William Forsythe and Angelin Preljocaj. She retired from Paris Opera Ballet in 2001 and currently teaches and stages ballets for companies around the world. Guérin was awarded the Anna Pavlova prize and the .

Head shot: Isabelle Guerin during rehearsal of Robbins' Other Dances // © Erik Tomasson Above: Helgi Tomasson and Patricia McBride in Robbins’ Other Dances in 1977 // © Martha Swope, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 29 FANCY FREE

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With Fancy Free, Jerome Robbins launched himself as Frohlich starts rehearsals with the men’s solos because a choreographer, inspired the Broadway musical On the Town, that’s how the dancers learn who their characters are, he says. and began a long-term collaboration with composer Leonard To give a terrific performance, they must believe who they are— Bernstein. Although Robbins might not have expected the and be in the moment, responding to one another. Sometimes, overwhelming response Fancy Free would bring, his potential in rehearsals, Robbins “would go to a dancer and change the was clear to one already-famous choreographer—on opening choreography and not tell the other dancer,” Frohlich says. night, sent Robbins a card that said, “I have “He used to say, ‘Play the scene—play what’s going on.’” That a nervous presentiment that the choreographic genius of our kind of spontaneity is essential when timing is critical, as it is in age may be discovered tonight.” this ballet. Each bit of stage business is cued off the music, and jumping the gun means that somebody else’s action becomes Robbins was dancing with American Ballet Theatre in 1943 less visible. Audiences should have no doubt about exactly when he came up with the sailors-on-leave concept for Fancy where to look when. Free. According to Deborah Jowitt, author of Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance, he got the idea from two In rehearsals Frohlich seems to bring Robbins back to life, paintings, The Fleet’s In and Shore Leave, by . acting out each part as his mentor did and using the words he (The ballet’s working title was Shore Leave.) In search of music remembers from long hours in the studio. “Dancers always feel for his ballet, he approached the young Bernstein, and so began special doing a Robbins piece,” he says. “Maybe it’s because their decades-long collaboration. And on April 18, 1944, Fancy we’re all in this together. Jerry used to say, ‘We’re all in the Free became a hit. studio; let’s try to make something work.’ It was a family atmosphere in many ways.” Vivid characters and a simple story give the ballet its charm. Three sailors on leave during World War II are out to have a good time in New York City—and that means women. They find only two, of course, and the ensuing competition for romantic success leads to a dance-off. One by one, the men try to impress the women with solos—bravura, sweet, and sexy—that reflect the personalities of the three original dancers (Harold Lang, John Kriza, and Robbins himself).

The ballet is really a play, says stager and former New York City Ballet dancer Jean-Pierre Frohlich, who danced Sailor #1 for years and has set Fancy Free on San Francisco Ballet several times. Consequently, doing it well requires more than great dancing. The first mandate, he says, is to understand that the ballet is a period piece. The second is characterization. Robbins insisted that the dancers develop histories for their characters, says Frohlich: “who slept on the top bunk, where you are from, so that the minute you’re on that stage, the audience sees the personalities.” The sailors have never been to New York, he says. “They’ve heard so much about the ladies and they’ve never seen tall buildings like this. Plus they are a bit cocky because they’re sailors, and they think they’re invincible.” The men have rituals: in each port they go to a bar, play a rigged game (similar to rock/ paper/scissors) to choose who will pay, and have a toss-the-gum- wrapper contest.

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Jerome Robbins’ Les Noces and Agnes de Mille’s Fall River Legend is Composer particularly notable. His Broadway credits include On the Town, Brigadoon West Side Story My Fair Lady Camelot Hello, Dolly! Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) , , , , and Guys and Dolls Oklahoma Porgy was an internationally known, and designs for film include , , and and Bess award-winning composer, , among others. Smith taught scenic design at New York conductor, pianist, and teacher. University’s Tisch School of the Arts for 22 years. Among many Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, honors, Smith won eight Tony Awards. he showed a prodigious talent for the piano. After studying music theory at Harvard, he continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was an assistant conductor at the New York Philharmonic when, in 1943, he filled in for a sick conductor and became an overnight sensation. In addition to his work with the New York Philharmonic, where he became music director at age 40, he conducted orchestras around the world. He was also a prolific composer of orchestral and choral music as well for Broadway musicals, opera, film, and ballet. Bernstein worked with choreographer Jerome Robbins on three major ballets, Fancy Free, Facsimile, and Dybbuk. His Broadway musicals include West Side Story, On the Town, , and Candide. Bernstein became known to generations of children for his explanations of classical music in his book and on such television shows as Omnibus and Young People’s Concerts. Among many awards and accolades, Bernstein was awarded a lifetime achievement Grammy Award, 11 Emmy awards, the KERMIT LOVE Kennedy Center Honors, and a Tony Award for distinguished Costume Designer achievement in the theater. Kermit Love (1916–2008) was a costume designer, actor, and puppet maker best known as the creator, with Jim Henson, of the JEROME ROBBINS Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus. Born in Choreographer Spring Lake, New Jersey, he started his career as a marionette maker See page 25. for a Works Progress Administration theater in Newark and moved on to ’s Mercury Theater. He worked with many prominent choreographers, including Agnes de Mille, , JEAN-PIERRE FROHLICH Jerome Robbins, and George Balanchine, with whom he collaborated Stager for more than 40 years. His work with Jim Henson led to him building See page 27. the puppets for Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, and Mr. Snuffleupagus. He also portrayed Willy, the hot dog vendor, on Sesame Street. In addition to his work on Sesame Street, Love created and built puppets for the OLIVER SMITH non-Henson puppet series The Great Space Coaster and built the Scenic Designer Snuggle Bear puppet for Snuggle fabric softener commercials. Oliver Smith (1918–1994) was a Tony Award–winning scenic designer and painter who served as co-director of American Ballet JENNIFER TIPTON Theatre. Born in Wisconsin, he studied architecture at Penn State. Lighting Designer His designs for Leonide Massine’s Saratoga (1941) and Agnes de See page 25. Mille’s Rodeo (1942) launched a career that extended into Broadway musicals, films, and opera. His long association with American Ballet Theatre began with his designs for Fancy Free in 1944; from 1945–1980, he served as co-director of that company PRODUCTION CREDITS with . Among many designs for ballet, his work on Music: Fancy Free by Leonard Bernstein, used by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner. Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free is performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. Costumes and scenery courtesy of .

Opposite page: Pascal Molat in Robbins' Fancy Free // © Erik Tomasson Above, head shot: Leonard Bernstein // © Paul de Hueck, courtesy the Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.; San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' Fancy Free // © Erik Tomasson

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 31 Francesco Gabriele Frola in Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier // © Karolina Kuras THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA KAREN KAIN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR NIJINSKY PROGRAM06 A BALLET BY JOHN NEUMEIER APR 03—APR 08

Choreographer: John Neumeier Composers: Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsokov, and Dmitri Shostakovich Scenic and Costume Design: John Neumeier, based partly on original sketches by Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois Lighting Design: Conceptualized by John Neumeier and reconstructed by Ralf Merkel Répétiteurs: , Magdelena Popa, and Peter Ottmann

World Premiere: July 2, 2000—The Hamburg Ballet; Staatsoper Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

The National Ballet of Canada Premiere: March 2, 2013— Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada

San Francisco Premiere: February 13, 2013—The Hamburg Ballet; War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California

Lead philanthropic support for The National Ballet of Canada’s production of Nijinsky is provided by The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, an anonymous friend of The National Ballet of Canada, The Volunteer MUSIC CREDITS Committee of The National Ballet of Canada, and The Producers’ Circle. Music: Frédéric Chopin, Prélude in C minor Robert Schumann, Faschingsschwank aus Wien, The National Ballet of Canada’s Producers’ Circle: John & Claudine Bailey, I. Allegro Nikolai Rimsky-Korsokov, Scheherazade, Op. 35 Susanne Boyce & Brendan Mullen, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, (Movements I, III and IV) Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan, Rosamond Ivey, Judy Korthals & Peter Irwin, Dmitri Shostakovich*, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Mona & Harvey Levenstein, The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C., Op. 147, III. Adagio; Julie Medland, Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Sandra Simpson and Yi Zhou, Viola Andrei Streliaev, Piano Noreen Taylor, C.M., & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont. Dmitri Shostakovich*, Symphony No. 11, Op. 103 (The Year 1905) San Francisco Ballet’s presentation of The National Ballet of Canada San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in Nijinsky is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey and David Briskin, Conductor Major Sponsor Marie and Barry Lipman. *By arrangement with G. Schirmer Inc. publisher and copyright owner

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 33 THE STORY OF JOHN NEUMEIER’S NIJINSKY

On January 19, 1919 at five o’clock in the afternoon in a ballroom of the Suvretta House Hotel in St. Moritz, , Vaslav Nijinsky danced publicly for the last time. He called this performance his “Wedding with God.”

Nijinsky begins with a realistic recreation of this situation. The choreography which follows however, visualizes his thoughts, memories, and hallucinations during this last performance.

ACT 1 Prompted by the imagined appearance of Sergei Diaghilev, his former mentor, impresario, and lover, Nijinsky recalls images of his sensational career with the Ballets Russes. Dancers, as aspects of his personality, perform fragments from his most famous roles. Harlequin, the Poet in Les Sylphides , the Golden Slave in Scheherazade, and the Spectre de la rose merge and mingle with characters from his private life. His sister Bronislava (later a choreographer), his older brother Stanislav (trained also to be a dancer, but marked from childhood by signs of madness), and his

34 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 ACT 2 mother (the dancer Eleonora Bereda, who along with his father Nijinsky’s madness drives him more and more inside himself. Thomas were the children’s first teachers) also appear in his Memories of childhood, family, school, and the Mariinsky Theater dreamlike fantasy. blend with nightmare visions of World War I and his wife’s infidelity. The scandalous premiere of his ballet Le Sacre du printemps In another scene of the ballet, Nijinsky remembers his search for appears juxtaposed with the brutality of World War I and his brother a new choreographic language. His experiments with movement Stanislav’s death. Romola is with him through difficult and bad times. result in his own original ballets L’Après-midi d’un faune, Jeux, Le In Nijinsky’s eyes, it is the world around him—not Nijinsky that has Sacre du printemps, and later . gone mad…

A woman in red—Romola de Pulsky, who will later become Nijinsky’s The Suvretta House performance and the ballet end with Nijinsky’s wife—crisscrosses his confused recollections. He relives their first last dance—the War. encounter on a ship to South America and their abrupt marriage— an event that caused his ultimate break with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

Opposite, top to bottom: Guillaume Côté // © Aleksandar Antonijevic; Guillaume Côté // © Erik Tomasson; Guillaume Côté // © Bruce Zinger

Above: Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté // © Erik Tomasson

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His dancing career lasted scarcely a decade. He choreographed Diaghilev’s tutelage and with a succession of Fokine ballets to just four works, only one of which has survived with any serious showcase his unparalleled talents—Petrushka, Le Spectre de la rose claim to authenticity. Yet, 63 years after his death, Vaslav Nijinsky and, most famously, Scheherazade—Nijinsky quickly became an remains an iconic figure—and a haunting presence in the life international sensation. of American-born choreographer John Neumeier, whose two-act Nijinsky is performed by The National Ballet of Canada. During successive Ballets Russes tours, Western audiences were astounded by Nijinsky’s athleticism, animal magnetism, and Neumeier’s fascination with Nijinsky began when, as a dance- miraculous ability to absorb himself totally into every role. His fame, loving sixth grade student in Milwaukee, he came across a stirringly fueled by a tantalizing aura of androgyny and the frisson of scandal titled book: Anatole Bourman’s The Tragedy of Nijinsky. “It made surrounding his scarcely discreet relationship with Diaghilev, made Nijinsky a real person in my mind,” Neumeier recalls. Nijinsky a celebrity.

From then on Neumeier devoured whatever information could In 1912 Diaghilev encouraged his lover-protégé to try his hand at be gleaned about Nijinsky, as an incandescent performer and choreography. The results were startling. L’Après-midi d’un faune, innovative choreographer, and as a tortured soul. He even to the Debussy score, shocked audiences with its unabashed interviewed Nijinsky’s widow, Romola. “Such a clever woman. I’m eroticism and Nijinsky’s presentation of himself in radically stylized, quite kind to her in my ballet,” he says, in oblique reference to the almost minimalist movement. way Romola has often been disparaged. By then Neumeier had a well-stocked library of works about his idol and had begun Nijinsky followed in 1913 with Jeux, a quasi-abstract ballet that used building what is now the most extensive Nijinsky collection in the metaphor of a tennis game to depict, again with carefully private hands. In addition to artistic representations of the dancer, symbolic movement, the tangled relations of a man and two female there are photographs, costumes, the only plaster cast of his foot, companions. and an autographed menu from Nijinsky and Romola’s wedding breakfast. It all resides in Neumeier’s house. “It’s quite full,” The biggest shock came later the same year with Nijinsky’s Le Sacre he says laconically. du printemps to Stravinsky’s seismically controversial score. Nijinsky, hailed as a god of the dance, excluded himself from the limelight, Nijinsky, born in Kiev in 1889, was a product of the Russian Imperial choosing instead to emphasize group patterns in his savage Ballet in St. Petersburg. He entered young adulthood during an era portrayal of ritual sacrifice in pagan Russia. The Paris premiere of revolutionary rumblings that spilled over into the ballet. Michel provoked a riot. Fokine, nine years Nijinsky’s senior, offered a choreographic challenge to what he regarded as the formulaic conventions of According to Neumeier, Nijinsky “broke new and original paths Russian classicism, epitomized by the sprawling spectacles of towards modern choreography … completely independent from . When the great impresario Sergei Diaghilev the classical brilliance of his own virtuosity and the astounding presented a season of Russian ballet in Paris in 1909, Nijinsky was projection of his performance presence.” already one of the Imperial Ballet’s brightest hopes. Under

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36 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 INSTANT Vaslav Nijinsky’s Famous Roles EXPERT Known as “Le Dieu de la Danse”, Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950) was the first male dancer to achieve fame the world over. A groundbreaking dancer and choreographer known for his erotic magnetism and gravity-defying leaps, he both thrilled and shocked audiences. The impact of his too-short career changed the art of ballet forever. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he gave his last performance in 1919 at the age of 29 and spent the rest of his life in and out of sanatoriums.

The Golden Slave in Scheherazade in 1911

The Rose in Spectre de la rose in 1911 Petrushka in Petrushka in 1911 Harlequin in Carnaval in 1915

Nijinsky’s Diary Vaslav Nijinsky’s diary has become one of the main ways that ballet fans and scholars have come to understand both his genius and his descent into schizophrenia. Written in early 1919 as his mind deteriorated, the diary discusses Sergei Diaghilev, his boss at the Ballets Russes and his former lover; his wife, Romola; and his sister, Bronislava; as well as his meditations on life and death. Choreographer John Neumeier recounts the impact that reading Nijinsky’s diary had on him as a young artist:

“In London, during the early ’60s, while I was finishing my dance studies at The Royal Ballet School, Nijinsky’s diary was republished. Of course, at that time it was the version his wife Romola had edited—reworking, rearranging, and severely censoring it. Nonetheless, the book touched me deeply, and I was mesmerized by the simple, direct yet profoundly spiritual observations about art, life, and religion. Again, Nijinsky was not only a dancer, but took on new and deeper dimensions as an incredibly sensitive and intuitive human being, expressing concerns above and beyond the problems of the dance world. I was moved to read the words of this man once the greatest, the most famous dancer in the world, candidly revealing the innermost layers of his soul. His philosophy of ‘feeling’ as opposed to ‘thinking’ struck an important emotional chord in me. Again, I discovered an aspect of his personality which echoed my own deep feelings, intuitions, and longings. His natural spirituality inspired and strengthened my own conviction that dance can and may express metaphysical or even theological aspects of humanity.”

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 37 CREATOR OF NIJINSKY THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA LEADERSHIP

JOHN NEUMEIER KAREN KAIN, C.C. Choreographer, Set, Costume, Artistic Director and Lighting Designer Artistic Director Karen Kain has led John Neumeier was born in Milwaukee, The National Ballet of Canada with Wisconsin, where he received his first great success since 2005. Her dance training. He continued his dance many accomplishments include studies in Chicago as well as at returning the company to the in Milwaukee international stage, commissioning where he created his first choreographic exciting new work, and forming works. After further ballet study both in Copenhagen and at The Royal partnerships with leading ballet companies such as The Royal Ballet School in London, John Cranko invited him in 1963 to join Ballet and The Hamburg Ballet. Long recognized as one of the , where he progressed to soloist and continued his most gifted classical dancers of her era, noted for her compelling choreographic development. characterizations and versatility as a performer, she is one of Canada’s most renowned and committed advocates for the arts. In 1969, Ulrich Erfurth appointed Neumeier director of Frankfurt Ballett, Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Kain received her training at Canada’s where he soon caused a sensation due to his new interpretations of National Ballet School in Toronto, joining the National Ballet in The Nutcracker such well-known ballets as and . In 1969. In 1973, Kain was awarded the Silver Medal in the Women’s 1973, he joined The Hamburg Ballet as director and chief choreographer Category at the prestigious International Ballet Competition in and, under his direction, The Hamburg Ballet became one of the Moscow and, along with Frank Augustyn, received a special leading ballet companies on the German dance scene and soon prize for Best Pas de Deux. Her distinguished career included received international recognition. In 1972, he set his first work for international guest performances with such companies as Paris Don Juan The National Ballet of Canada, with Rudolf Nureyev in the Opera Ballet, ’s Le Ballet de , The Bolshoi Now and Then title role and in 1993, he created for Karen Kain. Ballet, London Festival Ballet, and Ballet. During her career she developed a close creative partnership with As a choreographer, Neumeier has continually focused on the Rudolf Nureyev and often performed with him. Kain retired from preservation of ballet tradition, while giving his works a modern dancing following a farewell tour in 1997 and took up the position dramatic framework. His ballets range from new versions of of Artist-in-Residence with the company, the role later expanded evening-length story ballets to musicals and to his symphonic ballets, to that of Artistic Associate; subsequently, she was appointed especially those based on ’s compositions, as well as his Artistic Director. choreography to sacred music. His latest creations for The Hamburg Ballet are Duse (2015) and Turangalîla (2016). Neumeier holds the Dance Magazine Award (1983), Order of Merit of the Federal Republic BARRY HUGHSON of Germany and French Order of Arts and Letters, and the Legion of Executive Director Honour. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Nijinsky Award for Barry Hughson has served the Lifetime Achievement. He received the Herbert von Karajan Musikpreis performing arts field for 25 years in 2007 and the Deutscher Jubiläums Tanzpreis in 2008. In 2007, as a professional arts executive. In he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Hamburg. 2014, he joined The National Ballet In 2015, the Inamori Foundation presented Neumeier with the of Canada as Executive Director. Kyoto Prize for his contributions to the Arts and Philosophy and Since that time, the company has in 2016, he received the renowned Prix Benois de la Danse for continued its trajectory of artistic Lifetime Achievement. growth, fiscal responsibility, community engagement, and international presence, including landmark tours to New York’s Lincoln Center and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Hughson was previously Executive Director of Boston Ballet. As an arts advocate, consultant and educator, Hughson has had teaching and speaking engagements in the USA, Europe, and South America. He serves on the board of Dance/USA, is vice-chair of the National Council for the Canadian Dance Assembly, and served on the Steering Committee for the Canadian Arts Summit. Hughson began his career as a dancer with , where he performed classical and contemporary repertory at the Kennedy Center and on tour throughout the world.

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38 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 DAVID BRISKIN Music Director and Principal Conductor

Music Director and Principal Conductor of The National Ballet of Canada since 2006, David Briskin is widely recognized as one of contemporary ballet’s most accomplished conductors, noted both for the range of his repertory and the insightfulness of his musical interpretations. Prior to moving to Canada, Briskin was a conductor with American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and The Juilliard School’s Dance Division. As a guest conductor he appears regularly with The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London, The Royal Swedish Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, and Boston Ballet. Equally at home with orchestral and operatic repertory, Briskin has conducted the Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore, Cincinnati Pops, Indianapolis, Windsor, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras, among others, as well as Calgary Opera, Manitoba Opera, Opera Carolina, Lake George Opera, and Sarasota Opera.

JEFF MORRIS Stage Manager

Born in Toronto, Jeff Morris studied technical theater production and administration at Ryerson’s Theatre School. Following Ryerson, he became production stage manager for Toronto Dance Theatre (1990–1995), stage managing the company’s debuts in

Berlin, Warsaw, Beijing, Tokyo, and at the Joyce Theater, New York. Artists of The National Ballet of Canada // © Aleksandar Antonijevic He was production stage manager for Dancers for Life (AIDS Committee of Toronto, 1991–1997), and stage manager for Theatre Passe-Muraille (Never Swim Alone, Metamorphosis of a Shadow) LILIANE STILWELL and for the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists. Morris Stage Manager joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1995 and has since Liliane Stilwell joined The National Ballet of Canada in 2015. stage-managed a wide range of the company’s unique classical Previously she served as stage manager for the Canadian Opera and contemporary repertory, including the world premieres of Company for 22 years. Highlights include Don Quixote, Barber of The Four Seasons Cinderella An Italian James Kudelka’s , , and Seville, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Cenerentola, Otello, Marriage Straw Hat ; company premieres of John Neumeier’s , of Figaro, Götterdämmerung (complete Ring Cycle), Macbeth, A Streetcar Named Desire Nijinsky , and ; and Christopher La Bohème, Eugene , and Madama Butterfly. She was part Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The Winter’s Wheeldon’s and of the team that took Oedipus Rex to the Edinburgh International Tale . He is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Toronto Festival. Stilwell was production stage manager for Grease and stage Dance Theatre and festival co-director for the biannual festival manager for Robin Hood and Cinderella at the Elgin, Dirty Dancing dance:made in Canada/fait au Canada. at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Hairspray at the Princess of Wales. Other credits include Tom Jones, Speed-The-Plow, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Big River, Shear Madness, Carousel, Me and My Girl, and Roar of the Greasepaint—Smell of the Crowd. She was head stage coordinator for the Papal visit World Youth Day’s Way of the Cross and has stage managed several industrial shows in Canada and the United States.

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 39 ABOUT THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA

One of the top international ballet companies, The National Ballet of Canada was founded in 1951 by Celia Franca. A company of 70 dancers with its own orchestra, the National Ballet has been led by Artistic Director Karen Kain, one of the greatest ballerinas of her generation, since 2005. Renowned for its diverse repertory, the company performs traditional full-length classics, embraces contemporary work, and encourages the creation of new ballets as well as the development of Canadian choreographers. The company’s repertory includes works by Sir , George Balanchine, John Cranko, Rudolf Nureyev, John Neumeier, William Forsythe, James Kudelka, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, , Christopher Wheeldon, Aszure Barton, Guillaume Côté, and Robert Binet. The National Ballet has toured in Canada and internationally with recent appearances in Paris, London, New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA

CELIA FRANCA, C.C., FOUNDER GEORGE CRUM, MUSIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS

Karen Kain, C.C., Artistic Director Christopher Stowell, Associate Artistic Director Rex Harrington, O.C., Artist-in-Residence Barry Hughson, Executive Director Magdalena Popa, Principal Artistic Coach Peter Ottmann, Senior Ballet Master David Briskin, Music Director and Principal Conductor Lindsay Fischer, Artistic Director, Mandy-Jayne Richardson, Senior Ballet Mistress YOU dance / Principal Ballet Master

PRINCIPAL DANCERS Guillaume Côté Harrison James Evan McKie Piotr Stanczyk Jurgita Dronina Elena Lobsanova Heather Ogden Jillian Vanstone Naoya Ebe Sonia Rodriguez Xiao Nan Yu Greta Hodgkinson, O.Ont.

PRINCIPAL CHARACTER ARTISTS Lorna Geddes Etienne Lavigne Jonathan Renna Tomas Schramek Stephanie Hutchison Alejandra Perez-Gomez Rebekah Rimsay† Hazaros Surmeyan

FIRST SOLOISTS Skylar Campbell Emma Hawes Chelsy Meiss Brendan Saye Jordana Daumec Tanya Howard Tina Pereira Robert Stephen Hannah Fischer Alexandra MacDonald Jenna Savella Dylan Tedaldi Francesco Gabriele Frola

SECOND SOLOISTS Jack Bertinshaw Rui Huang Félix Paquet Ben Rudisin Kathryn Hosier Tiffany Mosher Brent Parolin Donald Thom

CORPS DE BALLET Jimmy Coleman Jeannine Haller DaeHan Na Kota Sato Trygve Cumpston Peng-Fei Jiang Siphesihle November Calley Skalnik Erika Delponte Soo Ah Kang Jaclyn Oakley Laurynas Vejalis Giorgio Galli Larissa Khotchenkova Andreea Olteanu Nan Wang Christopher Gerty Miyoko Koyasu Clare Peterson Ethan Watts Selene Guerrero-Trujillo† Antonella Martinelli Meghan Pugh Chae Eun Yang Spencer Hack Mallory Mehaffey

RBC APPRENTICE PROGRAMME / YOU DANCE Heather Capen Alexandra Hall George Liang Teagan Richman-Taylor Brenna Flaherty Nico Janssen Larkin Miller Alexander Skinner Hannah Galway Minkyung Lee

Robert Binet, Choreographic Associate Liliane Stilwell, Stage Manager Guillaume Côté, Choreographic Associate Lorna Geddes, Pointe Shoe Manager / Assistant Ballet Mistress Joysanne Sidimus, Guest Balanchine Répétiteur Maureen Callaghan, Stage Manager, YOU dance Jeff Morris, Stage Manager †Maternity/parental leave

40 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA PRINCIPAL DANCERS

GUILLAUME CÔTÉ ELENA LOBSANOVA Born: Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec Born: Moscow, Russia Rex Harrington, O.C., Artist-in-Residence Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Peter Ottmann, Senior Ballet Master Joined National Ballet: 1998 Joined National Ballet: 2004 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2004 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2015 Mandy-Jayne Richardson, Senior Ballet Mistress Choreographic Associate since: 2013 Sponsored by Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Sponsored by Emmanuelle Gattuso, C.M. NAOYA EBE HEATHER OGDEN and Allan Slaight C.M. Born: Tokyo, Japan Born: Toronto, Ontario Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Trained: Richmond Academy of Dance Joined National Ballet: 2006 Joined National Ballet: 1998 Piotr Stanczyk Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2015 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2005 Jillian Vanstone Sponsored by Gretchen Ross Sponsored by Ira Gluskin & Maxine Xiao Nan Yu Granovsky Gluskin

Tomas Schramek Hazaros Surmeyan

SVETLANA LUNKINA JURGITA DRONINA Born: Moscow, Russia Brendan Saye Born: Saratov, Russia Trained: National M. K. Ciulionis School Trained: Moscow Choreographic Robert Stephen of Art and International Academy Dylan Tedaldi Ballet Academy Bolshoi Ballet: 1997—2013 Royal Swedish Ballet: 2005—2010 Joined as Principal Dancer: 2014 Sponsored by Anna McCowan- Dutch National Ballet: 2010—2015 GRETA HODGKINSON Resident Principal Guest Artist with The Johnson and Donald K. Johnson, O.C. SONIA RODRIGUEZ since: 2015 Born: Providence, Rhode Island Born: Toronto, Ontario Joined as Principal Dancer: 2015 Trained: Festival Ballet of Rhode Island Trained: with Pedro de la Cruz at the Lead Principal Dancer with English and Canada’s National Ballet School Princess Grace Academy Ben Rudisin National Ballet: 2017 Joined National Ballet: 1990 Joined National Ballet: 1990 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 1996 Donald Thom Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2000

Kota Sato Calley Skalnik Laurynas Vejalis Nan Wang Ethan Watts Chae Eun Yang EVAN MCKIE Born: Toronto, Ontario Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School, The Kirov Academy of Ballet and the John Cranko School Stuttgart Ballet: 2001—2014 Teagan Richman-Taylor Joined as Principal Dancer: 2014 HARRISON JAMES Alexander Skinner Sponsored by Simona Shnaider Born: Paraparaumu, New Zealand Trained: San Francisco Ballet School’s Trainee Program and the New Zealand School of Dance Joined National Ballet: 2013 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2016 Sponsored by Lucy White

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THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA PRINCIPAL CHARACTER ARTISTS

PIOTR STANCZYK Born: Poznan, Poland Trained: State Ballet School of Poznan and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2008 LORNA GEDDES Born: Waterloo, Ontario Trained: With company co-founder Joined National Ballet: 1959 Principal Character Artist since: 2005 ALEJANDRA PEREZ-GOMEZ Born: Toronto, Ontario Trained: L’École supérieure de danse du Québec, Princess Grace Academy and San Francisco Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 Principal Character Artist since: 2013 TOMAS SCHRAMEK Born: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia Trained: Slovak Folk Dance Ensemble SLUK Joined National Ballet: 1969 Principal Dancer: 1973—1990 Principal Character Artist since: 1990 JILLIAN VANSTONE Born: Nanaimo, British Columbia Trained: Kirkwood Academy of the Performing Arts and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1999 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2011 STEPHANIE HUTCHISON Sponsored by George & Kathy Dembroski Born: Kitchener, Ontario Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1997 Principal Character Artist since: 2015 JONATHAN RENNA Born: Ottawa, Ontario Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1997—2000 Rejoined: 2007 Principal Character Artist since: 2015 HAZAROS SURMEYAN Born: Skopje, Yugoslavia Trained: National Ballet School of Macedonia Joined as Principal Dancer: 1966 Principal Character Artist since: 1986 XIAO NAN YU Born: Dalian, China Trained: Shen Yang School of Dance, Beijing Dance Academy and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1996 Promoted to Principal Dancer: 2001 ETIENNE LAVIGNE Born: Montréal, Québec Trained: L’École supérieure de danse du Québec, San Francisco Ballet School and National Ballet of Cuba Joined National Ballet: 1997 REBEKAH RIMSAY Principal Character Artist since: 2015 Born: Fort Collins, Colorado Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1990 Principal Character Artist since: 2012

42 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA FIRST SOLOISTS

SKYLAR CAMPBELL Born: Laguna Beach, California Trained: with Victor and Tatiana Kasatsky Joined National Ballet: 2009 First Soloist since: 2015 Sponsored by Tricia Younger FRANCESCO GABRIELE FROLA TINA PEREIRA Born: Aosta, Italy Born: Port of Spain, Trinidad Trained: Professione Danza Parma, Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School The School of The Hamburg Ballet Joined National Ballet: 2001 and Fomento Artistico Cordobés First Soloist since: 2009 Joined National Ballet: 2010 Sponsored by The Honourable First Soloist since: 2015 Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C. Sponsored by Sherry and Edward Drew

JORDANA DAUMEC ALEXANDRA MACDONALD Born: New York City, New York Born: Calgary, Alberta Trained: Studio Maestro and Canada’s Trained: International School of Ballet National Ballet School and Boston Ballet School’s Trainee Joined National Ballet: 2003 Program First Soloist since: 2015 Joined National Ballet: 2007 First Soloist since: 2016 EMMA HAWES Sponsored by an anonymous donor JENNA SAVELLA Born: Delaware, Ohio Born: Vancouver, British Columbia Trained: BalletMet’s Dance Academy Trained: DanceWest and Lavrova and Canada’s National Ballet School Classical Ballet Academy and Joined National Ballet: 2011 Canada’s National Ballet School First Soloist since: 2015 Joined National Ballet: 2004 Sponsored by JJ Dayot & Rick Schiralli First Soloist since: 2015 Sponsored by Elvio & Marlene DelZotto

HANNAH FISCHER CHELSY MEISS Born: New York City, New York Born: Melbourne, Australia Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Trained: Karen Curlis School of Dance, Joined National Ballet: 2012 Thelma Williams School of Dance, First Soloist since: 2017 The Victorian College of The Arts Sponsored by Judy & Bella Matthews and The Australian Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2008 TANYA HOWARD First Soloist since: 2015 Born: Uitenhage, South Africa Sponsored by Diana St. B. Weatherall Trained: The National School of Arts and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1998 First Soloist since: 2007 Sponsored by Nancy Pencer

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THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA SECOND SOLOISTS

BRENDAN SAYE Born: Vancouver, British Columbia Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2008 Second Soloist since: 2013 Sponsored by Robin Robinson JACK BERTINSHAW BRENT PAROLIN Born: Sydney, Australia Born: Prince George, British Columbia Trained: Tanya Pearson Classical Trained: Canada’s National Ballet Coaching Academy and the Tanz School and John Cranko School Akademie Zürich Joined National Ballet: 2014 Joined National Ballet: 2011 TIFFANY MOSHER Second Soloist since: 2015 Second Soloist since: 2015 Born: Halifax, Nova Scotia Trained: Scotia Dance Studios and Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 1999 Second Soloist since: 2013

ROBERT STEPHEN Born: Burlington, Ontario Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2004 First Soloist since: 2011

KATHRYN HOSIER BEN RUDISIN Born: Champaign, Illinois Born: Woodbridge, Virginia Trained: Champaign-Urbana Ballet Trained: North Carolina School of Academy and Canada’s National the Arts and Houston Ballet II Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2013 Joined National Ballet: 2009 FÉLIX PAQUET Second Soloist since: 2017 Second Soloist since: 2015 Sponsored by an anonymous donor Sponsored by Donna Meyers & Born: Québec City, Québec Doug Richmond Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School Joined National Ballet: 2014 Second Soloist since: 2017 Sponsored by Stephen Delaney & Robyn McCallum

DYLAN TEDALDI Born: Boston, Massachusetts Trained: Boston Ballet School and The School of The Hamburg Ballet Joined National Ballet: 2009 First Soloist since: 2015 RUI HUANG DONALD THOM Born: Shenzhen, China Born: Kanata, Ontario Trained: Shenzhen Arts School in China Trained: Linda Jamison School of Dance Joined National Ballet: 2011 and The Royal Ballet Upper School Second Soloist since: 2016 Joined National Ballet: 2015 Second Soloist since: 2016

44 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA TOURING STAFF

KAREN KAIN, C.C. BARRY HUGHSON DAVID BRISKIN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MUSIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT CHRISTOPHER STOWELL, DIANA REITBERGER, Associate Artistic Director Director of Development Gerard Roxburgh, Artistic Administrator Magdalena Popa, Principal Artistic Coach Rex Harrington, O.C., Artist-in-Residence PRODUCTION Peter Ottmann, Senior Ballet Master JAMES THORNLEY, Production Director Jennifer Bennet Darbyshire, Barney Bayliss, Technical Director Executive Assistant to the Jeff Morris, Liliana Stilwell, Stage Managers Artistic Director/Administrative Manager Jeff Logue, Lighting Coordinator Sarita Dotan, Company Management Assistant Paul McNamara, Master Carpenter Andrei Streliaev, Company Pianist Ashley Rose, Head Electrician Paul Papoutsakis, Company Athletic Therapist Michael Ellenton, Property Master Ron Mulesa, Company Massage Therapist James Fulton, Assistant Carpenter Geoff Kay, Assistant Carpenter / Flyman Ron Gorveatt, Chris Brooks, Assistant Electricians COMMUNICATIONS Marjory Fielding, Wardrobe Supervisor JULIA DRAKE, Director of Communications Barbara de Kat, Wardrobe Coordinator Belinda Bale, Senior Associate Director of Communications Grant Heaps, Assistant Wardrobe Coordinator Catherine Chang, Charles Seminerio, Wig and Make-up Supervisor Senior Communications Manager Leslie Brown, Wardrobe Footwear Assistant

For a complete staff listing:national.ballet.ca

The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges the support of the following:

We acknowledge the Bringing the arts to life The Government of Ontario through financial support of the De l'art plein la vie the Honourable Daiene Vernile, Government of Canada Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport. through the Department of Canadian Heritage via the Endowment Incentives component of the Canada Cultural Investment Fund.

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.

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MUSIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR MARTIN WEST

PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR MING LUKE

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Tracy Davis, Orchestra Personnel Valerie Megas, Senior Manager, Manager & Music Administrator ARTISTIC Retail Operations Ricard Bustamante, Felipe Diaz, Matthew Naughtin, Music Librarian Mary Goto, Senior Manager, Ballet Masters & Assistants to the Marketing and Sales

Artistic Director Monica Cheng, Senior Manager,

Graphic Design Betsy Erickson, Anita Paciotti, Katita Waldo, ADMINISTRATION Ballet Masters Jane Ann Chien, Web & Digital DARIN CONLEY-BUCHSIEB, Yuri Possokhov, Choreographer in Residence Human Resources Director Platforms Manager Abby Masters, Artistic Administrator Laura Simpson, Board Relations Manager Jillian Vasquez, Marketing & Promotions Manager Alan Takata-Villareal, Logistics Manager Rocio Salazar, Human Resources Generalist Nannette Mickle, Group Sales Amelia Bear, Assistant to the Artistic Staff Katharine Chambers, Assistant to Representative Senior Executive Staff Caitlin Sims, Publications Editor Lea Lamprecht, Social Media Producer OPERATIONS Rena Nishijima, Communications Associate DEBRA BERNARD, General Manager DEVELOPMENT Emily Munoz, Marketing Associate Juliette LeBlanc, Company Manager Elizabeth Lani, Senior Officer, Planned Giving Rachel Bauer, Media Asset Administrator Amy Hand, Operations Manager Amy Drew, Senior Officer, Corporate Giving Francis Zhou, Graphic Designer Sarah Warner, Senior Officer, Major Gifts

Kera Jewett, Senior Officer, Major Gifts

PRODUCTION Ingrid Roman, Senior Manager, Special Events TICKET SERVICES CHRISTOPHER DENNIS, Production Director Ari Lipsky, Senior Manager, Individual Gifts BETSY LINDSEY, Associate Director, Daniel Thomas, Technical Manager Laurel Skehen, Senior Manager, Membership Ticket & Patron Services Kate Share, Manager of Wardrobe, Wig, Jim Sohm, Research Manager Jennifer Peterian, Box Office Manager/ Make-up & Costume Construction Elizabeth Luu, Grants Manager Treasurer Jim French, Lighting Supervisor Catherine Davis, Donor Relations Officer Mark Holleman, Sales & Service Supervisor Jane Green, Production Stage Manager Colette Whitney, Corporate Giving Officer Elena Ratto, Patron Services Specialist Kathryn Orr, Stage Manager Ashley Rits, Development Database Jole Mendoza, Ticketing Database Specialist Nixon Bracisco, Master Carpenter Coordinator David Clark, Box Office Supervisor Kelly Corter Kelly, Master Electrician Emma Lundberg, Special Events Coordinator Arielle Hazan, Jericho Lindsey, Patricia Pearson, Kenneth M. Ryan, Master of Properties Joshua Schaffer, Membership Coordinator Michelle Schafer, Cherryl Usi, Kevin Kirby, Audio Engineer Haley O’Neil, Senior Development Associate Ticket Services Associates John O'Donnell, Flyman Jamie Bergos, Development Associate Claudia Schwartz, Ticket Services Assistant

Juanita Lam, Development Associate Patti Fitzpatrick, Head of Women’s Wardrobe Todd Siewert, Acting Head of Meg Monks, Special Events Associate Men's Wardrobe Megan Anderson, Corporate Giving Associate FINANCE Richard Battle, Head of Hair & Make-up KEVIN MOHR, Chief Financial Officer Thomas Richards, Assistant Head of Kristin Klingvall, Controller Hair & Make-up Valerie Ruban, Accounting Supervisor

Evangelina Maravilla, Payroll Manager Matthew Czarnecki, Senior Accountant Jonathan Creecy, Leanna Wright, Staff Accountants Jennifer Kovacevich, Lean Ops Project Manager

The artists employed by San Francisco Ballet are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, the Union of professional dancers, singers, and staging personnel in the United States. The San Francisco Ballet Association is a member of Dance/USA; American Arts Alliance; the Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; and the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES Yuko Katsumi Education & Training Administration JULIE BEGLEY, Chief Marketing Officer NATHAN BRITO, Facilities Manager Tina LeBlanc ANDREA YANNONE, Director of Education Kyra Jablonsky, Associate Director, Adrian Rodriguez, Facilities Coordinator Jeffrey Lyons & Training Communications Todd Martin, Stanley Wong, Rubén Martín Cintas, Jennie Scholick, PhD, Associate Director Jessica Lucas, Associate Director, Facilities Assistants Lee R. Crews Endowed Faculty Member of Audience Engagement Marketing Tamara de la Cruz, Nicole Drysdale, Ilona McHugh Christina Gray Rutter, School Assistant Administrative Director Valerie Megas, Senior Manager, Yana Vincent, Receptionists Pascal Molat, Trainee Program Assistant Retail Operations Jasmine Yep Huynh, Manager of Youth Jaime Diaz, Ballet and Strengthening Mary Goto, Senior Manager, Programs and Teacher Support Marketing and Sales Dana Genshaft, Ballet, Jennifer Bakane, School Operations INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & Conditioning Monica Cheng, Senior Manager, Manager Graphic Design MURRAY BOGNOVITZ, Director of Cecelia Beam, Adult Ballet Tai Vogel, School Registrar and Information Technology Jane Ann Chien, Web & Digital Brian Fisher, Contemporary Dance Summer Session Coordinator Platforms Manager Stacy Desimini, IT Operations Leonid Shagalov, Character Dance Karen Johnson, School Programs & Project Manager Jillian Vasquez, Marketing Henry Berg, Conditioning Coordinator Karen Irvin, Application Administrator & Promotions Manager Jamie Narushchen, Daniel Sullivan, Miles Petty, Administrative Assistant, & Help Desk Coordinator Nannette Mickle, Group Sales Music Education & Training Josh Marshall, Web Administrator Representative Lisa Giannone, Mateo Santos Perry, School Assistant Caitlin Sims, Publications Editor Jiapeng Jiang, IT Specialist Conditioning Class Consultant Cecelia Beam, Audience Engagement

Sofiane Sylve, Principal Guest Faculty Coordinator Lea Lamprecht, Social Media Producer

Rena Nishijima, Communications Associate Naima McQueen, Residence Manager

Emily Munoz, Marketing Associate FRONT OF HOUSE Matt McCourt, Will Reese, School Pianists Resident Assistants JAMYE DIVILA, House Manager Rachel Bauer, Media Asset Administrator Jamie Narushchen, School Pianist Supervisor, Marialice Dockus, Head Usher Leslie Donohue, Chris Fitzsimons, Francis Zhou, Graphic Designer Lee R. Crews Endowed Pianist School Physical Therapists Rodney Anderson, Danica Burt, Anthony Cantello, Ella Belilovskaya, Ritsuko Micky Kubo, Laurent Dela Cruz, Martin Dias, Starsky Dias, Daniel Sullivan, Galina Umanskaya, Jonathan Drogin, Chip Heath, Elaine Kawasaki, Billy Wolfe, Julia Ganina, Sky Tan TICKET SERVICES Eileen Keremitsis, Ryszard Koprowski, Bill Laschuk, COMPANY PHYSICIANS Sharon Lee, Lenore Long, Doug Luyendyk, BETSY LINDSEY, Associate Director, Richard Gibbs, M.D. & Rowan Paul, M.D., Ticket & Patron Services Evelyn Martinez, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Dance in Schools & Communities Sam Mesinger, Dale Nedelco, Wayne Noel, Supervising Physicians Jennifer Peterian, Box Office Manager/ Teaching Artists Beth Norris, Jan Padover, Julie Peck, Michael Leslie, PT Treasurer Alisa Clayton Robert Remple, Bill Repp, Rilla Reynolds, Director, Dancer Wellness Center Mark Holleman, Sales & Service Supervisor CJ Ru, Robyn Sandberg, Kelly Smith, Sammay Dizon Kristin Wingfield, M.D., Elena Ratto, Patron Services Specialist Stephanie Somersille, Theresa Sun, Tom Taffel, Cynthia Pepper Primary Care Sports Medicine Richard Wagner, Steve Weiss, Elaine Yee, Jole Mendoza, Ticketing Database Specialist Phoenicia Pettyjohn Frederic Bost, M.D., On-site Orthopedist Ushers David Clark, Box Office Supervisor Jessica Recinos Peter Callander, M.D., Arielle Hazan, Jericho Lindsey, Patricia Pearson, Joti Singh Keith Donatto, M.D., Jon Dickinson, M.D., Orthopedic Advisors to the Company Michelle Schafer, Cherryl Usi, Genoa Sperske Ticket Services Associates EDUCATION & TRAINING Karl Schmetz, Consulting Physical Therapist Maura Whelehan Claudia Schwartz, Ticket Services Assistant San Francisco Ballet School Active Care, Lisa Giannone, Director, Off-site Physical Therapy HELGI TOMASSON, Artistic Director Dance in Schools & Communities & Conditioning Classes PATRICK ARMAND, Director Accompanists Leonard Stein, D.C., Chiropractic Care FINANCE David Frazier Henry Berg, Rehabilitation Class Instructor KEVIN MOHR, Chief Financial Officer School Faculty Patrick Armand Omar Ledezma Kelsey Anderson, Kristin Klingvall, Controller Wellness Program Manager Kristi DeCaminada Zeke Nealy Valerie Ruban, Accounting Supervisor Karen Gabay Wade Peterson Evangelina Maravilla, Payroll Manager Jordan Hammond-Tilton Bongo Sidibe Matthew Czarnecki, Senior Accountant Jonathan Creecy, Leanna Wright, Staff Accountants Jennifer Kovacevich, Lean Ops Project Manager

Legal Services provided by Adler & Colvin; Fallon Bixby Cheng & Lee; Fettmann Ginsburg, PC; Blue Skies Immigration Services; Epstein Becker & Green, PC; Littler Mendelson, PC; Miller Law Group; and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Audit services provided by Grant Thornton LLP. Insurance brokerage services provided by DeWitt Stern Group.

The Centers for Sports and Dance Medicine at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital are the official health care providers for San Francisco Ballet School. Special thanks to Dr. Susan Lewis, Dr. Jane Denton, Dr. Rémy Aridizzone, Christine Corpus, and the Physical Therapy Department for generously providing their services.

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Did you know that ticket sales and school tuition cover only 50 percent of our expenses each year? That makes our donors equal partners in our success. We invite our donors to celebrate our shared success at Cast Parties and events with artists of SF Ballet, to get a look behind- the-scenes at dress rehearsals, and to learn more about the art form at lectures and other special events. Join us, won’t you? Just visit sfballet.org/donate or call 415 865 6628 to make your gift and receive exclusive benefits designed to enhance your SF Ballet experience.

We’ve designed a wonderful variety of events for our supporters during our 2018 Repertory Season. Listed below are events for members of the Artistic Director’s Council (ADC), Chairman’s Council (CHM), Christensen Society (CS), The Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle (VLC), and Friends of San Francisco Ballet. Christensen Society members and above will receive invitations to events that correspond with their performance dates.

These events are marked with an asterisk (*). For more information, please visit our website at sfballet.org/donor-events, or contact Ari Lipsky, Senior Manager of Individual Gifts, at [email protected] or 415 865 6635.

MARCH

March 20, 1 pm OPEN DRESS REHEARSAL ROBBINS: BALLET & BROADWAY (CON+) War Memorial Opera House

March 24, 11 am COMPANY CLASS OBSERVATION & RECEPTION (SUP+) UTAH War Memorial Opera House March 27, 5:30 pm CS WAREHOUSE EVENT (ASO+) FESTIVAL 2400 Cesar Chavez Street APRIL 1/3V April 3, 10 pm CS CAST PARTY*, NIJINSKY: A BALLET BY JOHN NEUMEIER (ASO+) The Green Room, Veterans Building

April 8, 12:30 pm BALLET HISTORY LECTURE (CON+) Chris Hellman Center for Dance

MEMBERSHIP LEVEL KEY ADC | Artistic Director’s Council ($100,000+) CHM | Chairman’s Council ($15,000–$99,999)

CHRISTENSEN SOCIETY CHO | Choreographer’s Council ($7,500–$14,999) DAN | Dancer’s Council ($5,000–$7,499) ASO | Associate’s Council ($2,500–$4,999)

FRIENDS OF SF BALLET PAT | Patron ($1,000–$2,499) SUP | Supporter ($500–$999) CON | Contributor ($200–$499)

VLC | Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle

50 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 DONOR EVENTS SPONSOR AND DONOR NEWS

AN INVITATION TO DANCE: SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL 2018 STUDENT SHOWCASE DINNER AND PERFORMANCE

San Francisco Ballet School presents An Invitation to Dance: San Francisco Ballet School 2018 Student Showcase, May 23, 24, and 25, 2018. This program displays the remarkable skills of the School’s talented student body at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in downtown San Francisco. This annual performance is a testament to not only the breadth and depth of the School’s students, but also to the outstanding caliber of its faculty.

Following the May 23 opening night performance, the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary hosts a special fundraising dinner. Led by Auxiliary Event Chair Donna Bachle, this celebratory evening will be held at Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco. Funds from the dinner will be used to support scholarship and financial aid programs, which provide more than $1 million to help make training at the School accessible to all talented young artists.

SF Ballet School is grateful for the generous contributions and support for Student Showcase provided by returning sponsors Dodge & Cox, KPMG, BIOIS (Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, LLC), and Ernest Vineyards. Marc Sinykin and Kevin Osinski will serve as the honorary chairs of the event.

For more information or to order tickets to this event visit sfballet.org/studentshowcase or call 415 865 2000 for performance-only tickets.

KAISER PERMANENTE SUPPORTS DANCE FOR PARKINSON’S PATIENTS

In partnership with Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Ballet School has “We are thrilled to partner with SF Ballet School for a class that brings launched a year-long dance class series designed specifically for people the arts and healthcare together,” says Randy Wittorp, director of who are affected by Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Ballet, , folk public affairs at Kaiser Permanente. “By working together to create dance, and improvisation are integrated into a program designed to a dance program that helps those in the Bay Area who are affected encourage conscious and expansive movement and develop individual by Parkinson’s Disease, we are better able to innovate and serve artistic expression. The free-of-charge weekly class honors PD-specific our communities.” concerns such as balance, flexibility, and coordination, as well as feelings of isolation and depression. SF Ballet School Director Patrick Armand agrees. “We are deeply grateful to Kaiser Permanente for making this program possible,” The program launched in November 2017 with a group of a dozen PD he says. “I feel that everyone can dance, and it’s our responsibility dancers referred by Kaiser Permanente physicians. A new 8-week session to provide opportunities. I hope everyone participating in this open to the public began January 20th and was attended by more than special dance class series will find benefit in the movement and 20 individuals with Parkinson’s and their support partners. self-expression.” For more information about these classes, contact Cecelia Beam at [email protected] or 415 865 6583.

Opposite page: Jennifer Stahl during company class on stage at the War Memorial Opera House // © Erik Tomasson Above: SF Ballet students at the SF Ballet School 2017 Student Showcase // © Erik Tomasson

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THE ARTISTS’ RESERVE FUND HELPS DANCERS INVEST IN THEIR FUTURES How do our dancers prepare for a career after the stage? Many receive financial support for education-related expenses through the Artists’ Reserve Fund. This fund enables current and former Company members to pursue career transition goals while maintaining the rigorous schedule of a professional dancer.

Each season, dancers donate the salary of one performance on the Opera House stage and the organization matches their contributions. In addition, a number of contributions come from SF Ballet patrons. Over the past ten years, the Fund has given grants to an average of 23 dancers annually.

The Artists’ Reserve Fund has a champion in long-time SF Ballet Board Trustee and former dancer Jola Anderson, who takes pride in helping dancers plan for their futures without giving up the profession they love. Many Fund recipients choose to participate in the Liberal Education for Arts Professionals program at St. Mary’s College, which provides flexible class schedules in locations that enable dancers to pursue a degree. “A dance career is short,” says Jola. “It’s important that dancers prepare for a life after dance. The Artists’ Reserve Fund is an investment in their future.”

SF Ballet continues to build this fund. To contribute, you can donate online at sfballet.org/arf or by contacting Katharine Chambers, Assistant to Senior Executive Staff, [email protected] or 415 865 6581. Please note that donations to the Artists’ Reserve Fund are fully tax-deductible but do not count toward membership in the Friends of SF Ballet or the Christensen Society.

The dancers of SF Ballet would like to thank the donors to the Artists’ Reserve Fund (since July 2016):

Jola and John M. Anderson Donald F. Houghton Mr. and Mrs. Edward Plant Kristen A. Avansino Ms. Yeuen Kim Ms. Ellen Sandler Ms. Carol Benz Mr. and Mrs. Barry R. Lipman Ms. Karen Streicher Mrs. Walter Carpeneti Mr. and Dr. Douglas G. Lynn Arlene H. Sullivan Dr. Brendan Collins Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Mauzé Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Christian P. Erdman Lynn McGowin Mr. Roger Green Mr. Wallace Mersereau Fancy Free // © Erik Tomasson : San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' : San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' : Jola Anderson with Artists' Reserve Fund Grant recipients // © Erik Tomasson Reserve : Jola Anderson with Artists' Left Right

52 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 music dance theater 2017/18 GLENN REID, SPONSOR OF SEASON FANCY FREE IN MEMORY OF Cal Perform ances UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY FRANK LANIER Before Glenn Reid made the move west, he had Celebrating 50 years with a front row seat to some of Jerome Robbins’ most spectacular work for Broadway. As a young man in New York City, he witnessed the original productions of West Side Story, Fiddler American Dance Theater on the Roof, and Gypsy, just to name a few. Robert Battle, artistic director Masazumi Chaya, associate artistic director His love of theater and dance only grew when he met the man who would become his life partner, Frank Lanier, a Broadway “hoofer” who FEATURING THREE WEST appeared in Damn Yankees and the short-lived COAST PREMIERES! musical Pipe Dream. April 10–15 Glenn and Frank came to San Francisco in the ZELLERBACH HALL late 1960s, and a few years later they became regular patrons of San Francisco Ballet. For the next five decades, they attended performances together and became ardent supporters of the Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., and more: Ballet, joining the Christensen Society in 1999 The Music of John Williams and the Chairman’s Council in 2006. Boston Pops at the Greek Glenn and Frank have long had an affinity Keith Lockhart, conductor for the Robbins repertory at SF Ballet; Frank Featuring selections from especially loved its Broadway-style energy. some of Williams’ most After seeing a recent revival of Bernstein’s iconicCAL Hollywood PERFORMANCE film On the Town, Glenn knew he had to sponsor scores, including music the ballet on which the musical is based— from Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., one that his late partner loved so much. and the Indiana Jones and 2/3V Harry Potter films.

We are honored to thank Glenn Reid for his sponsorship of Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free April 21 GREEK THEATRE in memory of Frank Lanier.

Ex Machina 887 Written, designed, directed, and performed by Robert Lepage

887 Murray Avenue, Quebec City, Canada. The apartment complex where renowned director Robert Lepage spent his youth comes to life as a bewitching, tech-saturated dollhouse in this deeply personal solo work.

“Touching, intimate, powerful” —The Guardian (London)

May 4 & 5 ZELLERBACH HALL

Season calperformances.org Sponsor:

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 53 UNBOUND DONOR SPOTLIGHTS

KATE & BILL DUHAMEL UNBOUND: A FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS Kate and Bill Duhamel are sponsors of The Collective Agreement, Alonzo King’s new ballet FESTIVAL PRESENTING SPONSOR for the Unbound festival. A subscriber since 2010, Kate joined the SF Ballet Board of Trustees Diane B. Wilsey in 2012. In 2015, she and her husband were the Lead Sponsors of Yuri Possokhov’s Swimmer. Kate has also collaborated artistically with SF Ballet, creating unique video designs for FESTIVAL GRAND BENEFACTOR SPONSORS Swimmer and directing two short dance films for the Unbound festival. “It’s an honor to Kate and Bill Duhamel be able to support both San Francisco Ballet and Alonzo King,” she says. “Unbound is a Gaia Fund daring exploration of this vibrant art form and I’m thrilled to be a part of it, both creatively David and Kelsey Lamond and as a sponsor.” Mr. and Mrs. John S. Osterweis Yurie and Carl Pascarella GAIA FUND Kathleen Scutchfield Established by SF Ballet Trustee Christine Russell and her husband, Mark Schlesinger, Denise Littlefield Sobel Apr 20 – May 06 Gaia Fund is a San Francisco-based family foundation that has supported SF Ballet for David H. Spencer more than 20 years. The Fund has awarded an additional grant this year for the SF Ballet Ms. Susan A. Van Wagner Orchestra’s contribution to Unbound: A Festival of New Works. The music the Orchestra Miles Archer Woodlief will play at the Unbound festival is as eclectic as the choreography, ranging from classical FESTIVAL LEAD SPONSORS favorites to newly commissioned scores. Bently Foundation, in honor of Glenn McCoy’s When asked about this specific designation of Gaia’s support, Christine and Mark stated, 30 years of leadership at San Francisco Ballet “We know how essential SF Ballet Orchestra is to the company’s excellence, and feel it is Ms. Laura Clifford* critical to support the Orchestra and its talented musicians. Gaia is honored to have the Randee Seiger opportunity to do so through its contribution to the Unbound festival.” Judy C. Swanson KATHLEEN SCUTCHFIELD FESTIVAL MAJOR SPONSORS San Francisco Ballet is pleased to acknowledge Kathleen Scutchfield’s sponsorship of Sue and John Diekman Arthur Pita’s Björk Ballet. Scutchfield, a longtime SF Ballet subscriber and supporter, served Teri and Andy Goodman as an SF Ballet Trustee from 1983 to 1994. She was voted a Trustee Emerita in 1999. This Tom Horn and the Bob Ross Foundation season she’s also a Major Sponsor of Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen's House. “It’s an honor to be able Koret Foundation to support a gifted choreographer like Arthur Pita,” says Scutchfield. “Arthur’s choreography is always original and stylish, and Björk Ballet is no exception. It’s exciting to be able to FESTIVAL SPONSORS CIRCLE champion his contribution to SF Ballet’s Unbound festival.” Alison and Michael Mauzé National Endowment for the Arts MILES ARCHER WOODLIEF Jennifer and Steven Walske San Francisco Ballet gratefully recognizes Miles Archer Woodlief’s sponsorship of Myles Thatcher’s Otherness for the Unbound festival. Woodlief, a Trustee, is a dedicated supporter FESTIVAL PATRONS CIRCLE of SF Ballet. “It is an absolute privilege to support an artist like Myles Thatcher,” says Woodlief. Chaomei Chen and Dr. Yu Wu Be at the epicenter of dance for the “As a graduate of SF Ballet School who got his start choreographing here as well, Myles has Beth and Brian Grossman world premieres of 12 ballets by 12 a true with these dancers. It’s a thrill to be able to support, even in this small way, Elaine Kartalis* of today’s most sought-after and critically

the tremendous trajectory of his growth as an artist.” Nancy A. Kukacka* acclaimed choreographers. Angelo Greco // © Erik Tomasson Brenda and Alexander Leff Marie and Barry Lipman Ms. Tiffany Lockridge* Michael and Mary Schuh UNBOUND A UNBOUND C Visa Alonzo King The Collective Agreement Stanton Welch Bespoke *Sponsors Dinner Host Committee | | Christopher Wheeldon Bound© Trey McIntyre Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem Sponsor list as of February 9, 2018 | | | Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming Annabelle Lopez Ochoa | Guernica

CELEBRATE UNBOUND UNBOUND B UNBOUND D Sponsors and donors to Unbound: A Festival of Myles Thatcher | Otherness Edwaard Liang | The Infinite Ocean New Works receive exclusive invitations to one-of-a-kind Cathy Marston | Snowblind Dwight Rhoden | LET’S BEGIN AT THE END events and rehearsals—from a VIP dinner on the David Dawson | Anima Animus Arthur Pita | Björk Ballet War Memorial Opera House stage with all 12 Unbound choreographers to a closing night celebration at the Bently Reserve, with dress rehearsals and post-performance onstage toasts in between. Plus, Unbound donors have the satisfaction of knowing they've done their part in cementing the future of ballet. Left to right: Trustee Miles Archer Woodlief; Mark Schlesinger and Trustee Christine Russell; For more information, contact Ari Lipsky, Senior Manager, Trustee Emerita Kathleen Scutchfield and Ballet Master & Assistant to the Artistic Director Ricardo Bustamante; Trustee Kate Duhamel // © Drew Altizer Photography Individual Gifts, at [email protected] or 415 865 6635. FOR DETAILS, VISIT SFBALLET.ORG/UNBOUND 54 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 Apr 20 – May 06

Be at the epicenter of dance for the world premieres of 12 ballets by 12 of today’s most sought-after and critically

acclaimed choreographers. Angelo Greco // © Erik Tomasson

UNBOUND A UNBOUND C Alonzo King | The Collective Agreement Stanton Welch | Bespoke Christopher Wheeldon | Bound© Trey McIntyre | Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem Justin Peck | Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming Annabelle Lopez Ochoa | Guernica

CELEBRATE UNBOUND UNBOUND B UNBOUND D Sponsors and donors to Unbound: A Festival of Myles Thatcher | Otherness Edwaard Liang | The Infinite Ocean New Works receive exclusive invitations to one-of-a-kind Cathy Marston | Snowblind Dwight Rhoden | LET’S BEGIN AT THE END events and rehearsals—from a VIP dinner on the David Dawson | Anima Animus Arthur Pita | Björk Ballet War Memorial Opera House stage with all 12 Unbound choreographers to a closing night celebration at the Bently Reserve, with dress rehearsals and post-performance onstage toasts in between. Plus, Unbound donors have the satisfaction of knowing they've done their part in cementing the future of ballet. For more information, contact Ari Lipsky, Senior Manager, Individual Gifts, at [email protected] or 415 865 6635. FOR DETAILS, VISIT SFBALLET.ORG/UNBOUND 2017–18 SEASON SPONSORS

2017 NUTCRACKER LEAD SPONSORS MAJOR SPONSORS PROGRAM 04 The Herbert Family Kate and Bill Duhamel Frankenstein The Swanson Foundation Jennifer and Steven Walske LEAD SPONSORS SPONSORS SPONSORS Fang and Gary Bridge Yurie and Carl Pascarella Kathleen Grant, M.D. and Elaine Kartalis Kathleen Scutchfield Thomas Jackson, M.D. Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich The Smelick Family Kacie and Michael Renc MAJOR SPONSORS Larissa Roesch and Calder Roesch OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF NUTCRACKER Karen S. Bergman United Airlines O.J. and Gary Shansby Sonia H. Evers

Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes 2018 REPERTORY SEASON LEAD SPONSORS PROGRAM 01 PROGRAM 05 Teri and Andy Goodman Opus 19/The Dreamer The Sleeping Beauty Randee Seiger LEAD SPONSORS Judy C. Swanson LEAD SPONSOR Ms. Laura Clifford Mr. Richard C. Barker MAJOR SPONSORS Alison and Michael Mauzé Hannah and Kevin Comolli SPONSOR San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary Katherine and Gregg Crawford Catherine and Mark Slavonia MAJOR SPONSORS SPONSORS The Cage Stephen and Margaret Gill John G. Capo and Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Family Foundation MAJOR SPONSORS Robert and Laura Cory Mr. and Mrs. James C. Katzman Innovation Global Capital Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman Alex and Carolyn Mehran David H. Spencer Mrs. Henry I. Prien Other Dances Michael and Mary Schuh PROGRAM 03 LEAD SPONSOR SPONSORS PROGRAM SPONSOR Mr. and Mrs. James D. Marver Joseph and Marianne Geagea The Bernard Osher Foundation Mark and Debra Leslie MAJOR SPONSORS Dr. Timothy Marten, M.D. and On a Theme of Paganini Chaomei Chen and Dr. Yu Wu Ms. Mary Heylin Sue and John Diekman MAJOR SPONSOR Richard Thalheimer Family Athena and Timothy Blackburn Fancy Free

SPONSOR SPONSORS PROGRAM 02 Almaden H. B. and Lucille Horn Foundation Glenn H. Reid Ibsen's House BRAVO LEAD SPONSOR MAJOR SPONSOR Diane B. Wilsey Kathleen Scutchfield MAJOR SPONSORS PROGRAM 06 David and Vicki Cox Ghost in the Machine The National Ballet of Canada in Christa and Mark Lopez LEAD SPONSORS Nijinsky: A Ballet by John Neumeier Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Mobley Shelby and Frederick Gans PRESENTING SPONSOR David and Kelsey Lamond SPONSORS Diane B. Wilsey Gioia and John Arrillaga MAJOR SPONSORS MAJOR SPONSOR Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roach Brenda and Alexander Leff Marie and Barry Lipman ENCORE! Charles and Kara Roell The Chairman Dances—Quartet For Two SPONSORS Christine and Pierre Lamond SATURDAY NIGHT SUBSCRIPTION SERIES LEAD SPONSORS San Francisco Ballet Allegro Circle Lucy and Fritz Jewett Saturday Night Series Gaia Fund Mr. and Mrs. John S. Osterweis UNBOUND: A FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS SPONSORS Please see page 54.

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CELESTIAL 2018 OPENING NIGHT GALA

PRESENTING SPONSOR Osterweis Capital Management San Francisco Ballet gratefully acknowledges San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the Koret Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts for their support. BENEFACTOR DINNER SPONSOR KPMG Official Gym of San Francisco Ballet PATRON DINNER SPONSOR JPMorgan Chase & Co.

PERFORMANCE SPONSOR EDUCATION & TRAINING Fang and Gary Bridge, in honor of Helgi Tomasson

AFTER PARTY SPONSOR Lead Sponsors of San Francisco Ballet’s Education Programs La Perla Additional support is provided by Major Sponsor Kaiser Permanente and Sponsors Gap Foundation, PROSECCO PROMENADE SPONSOR U.S. Bank Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Shreve & Co. The Dance in Schools and Communities program is supported by Major Sponsor The Charles Henry Leach, II Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. INVITATION SPONSOR The Student Matinee Series is supported by the Gaia Fund of the San Francisco Ballet Endowment Foundation. Pacific Union Real Estate

APERITIF SPONSOR Lillet Lead Sponsor of San Francisco Ballet School

2018 MEDIA SPONSOR NUTCRACKER MEDIA SPONSOR

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 57 GREAT BENEFACTORS Our most loyal donors are dedicated to supporting exquisite art and also understand that a contribution to San Francisco Ballet is an investment in the cultural life of the Bay Area. Our growth and evolution as a Company and school is due in large part to the steadfast and generous support of patrons in the Bay Area and beyond. In 2005, we created the honor of Great Benefactor to recognize donors whose cumulative giving to SF Ballet is $1 million or more.

American Airlines JPMorgan Chase & Co. Estate of Helen Anderton Maurice Kanbar AT&T Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Ormond Kirschbaum Bank of America Foundation Diana Dollar Knowles Richard C. Barker Estate of Diana Dollar Knowles Bingham McCutchen LLP Koret Foundation Athena and Timothy Blackburn Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich BRAVO Kelsey and David Lamond Fang and Gary Bridge The Charles Henry Leach, II Foundation Jennifer Caldwell and John H. N. Fisher Jennifer Jordan McCall, Foundation Trustee California Arts Council Catherine Lego The State of California Paul Lego Estate of Lewis and Emily Callaghan Marie and Barry Lipman Mrs. Daniel H. Case III Mrs. Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Chevron Corporation The Marver Family Estate of Barbara A. Daily Stephanie and James Marver Deloitte Alison and Michael Mauzé Susan and John Diekman Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Suzy Kellems Dominik Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson Rudolph W. Driscoll National Endowment for the Arts Sonia H. Evers The Bernard Osher Foundation First Republic Bank John Osterweis and Barbara Ravizza Ford Foundation Pacific Gas and Electric Company Diana Stark and J. Stuart Francis Yurie and Carl Pascarella Estate of Georg L. Fr ierson The Thomas J. and Gerd Perkins Foundation Gaia Fund Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation Kenneth Rainin Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Mr. George R. Roberts Grants for the Arts Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Estate of Richard B. Gump Bob Ross Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Gordon Russell Mimi Haas San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary Colleen and Robert D. Haas The San Francisco Foundation Walter & Elise Haas Fund Kathleen Scutchfield Estate of Katharine Hanrahan Randee Seiger Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Hays O.J. and Gary Shansby William Randolph Hearst Foundation Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Hellman Family The Smelick Family The Hellman Foundation Denise Littlefield Sobel The Herbert Family Estate of Natalie H. Stotz William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The Swanson Foundation The Edward E. Hills Fund Richard J. Thalheimer Donald F. Houghton Ms. Susan A. Van Wagner Estate of Dora Donner Ide Visa Inc. The James Irvine Foundation Wallis Foundation The William G. Irwin Charity Foundation Phyllis C. Wattis G. William Jewell Wells Fargo Lucy and Fritz Jewett The E. L. Wiegand Foundation George F. Jewett Foundation Diane B. Wilsey George F. Jewett, Jr. 1965 Trust Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Estate of Mildred Johnson The Zellerbach Family

58 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 Our most loyal donors are dedicated to supporting exquisite art and also understand that a contribution to San Francisco Ballet is an investment in the cultural life of the Bay Area. Our growth and evolution as a Company and school is due in large part to the steadfast and generous support of patrons in the Bay Area and beyond. In 2005, we created the honor of Great Benefactor to recognize donors whose cumulative giving to SF Ballet is $1 million or more.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR'S COUNCIL Maurice Kanbar Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Ormond Kirschbaum San Francisco Ballet gratefully acknowledges the members of the Artistic Director’s Diana Dollar Knowles Council. Their generous annual support of $100,000 or more has been instrumental Estate of Diana Dollar Knowles to the success of SF Ballet, SF Ballet School, and SF Ballet’s education programs. Koret Foundation Council members receive customized benefits including special access to Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich performances, exclusive events, and rehearsals. Kelsey and David Lamond For more information, please contact Sarah Warner, Senior Officer, Major Gifts, The Charles Henry Leach, II Foundation at [email protected] or 415 865 6634. Jennifer Jordan McCall, Foundation Trustee Catherine Lego GRAND BENEFACTORS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL Paul Lego Gifts of $250,000 and above Gifts of $100,000–$249,999 Marie and Barry Lipman Mrs. Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Ms. Laura Clifford Mr. Richard C. Barker The Marver Family Kate and Bill Duhamel Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Stephanie and James Marver Gaia Fund Fang and Gary Bridge Alison and Michael Mauzé The Hellman Family Sue and John Diekman Andrew W. Mellon Foundation David and Kelsey Lamond Sonia H. Evers Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson Mr. and Mrs. John S. Osterweis Shelby and Frederick Gans National Endowment for the Arts Yurie And Carl Pascarella Teri and Andy Goodman San Francisco Ballet School students // © Chris Hardy The Bernard Osher Foundation Kathleen Scutchfield Beth and Brian Grossman John Osterweis and Barbara Ravizza Randee Seiger Lucy Jewett Pacific Gas and Electric Company Denise Littlefield Sobel Elaine Kartalis Yurie and Carl Pascarella Ms. Susan A. Van Wagner Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich The Thomas J. and Gerd Perkins Foundation Diane B. Wilsey Brenda and Alexander Leff AUDITIONS Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Mr. and Mrs. James D. Marver FOR CHILDREN Kenneth Rainin Alison and Michael Mauzé Mr. George R. Roberts Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock AGES 8–11 Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock David H. Spencer June 2, 2018 | 2018–19 School Year Bob Ross Judy C. Swanson Gordon Russell Jennifer and Steven Walske Pursue your love of dance. When you San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary Miles Archer Woodlief enroll in San Francisco Ballet School, The San Francisco Foundation you follow in the footsteps of thousands Kathleen Scutchfield of talented students who have learned Randee Seiger to dance, made friends, stretched their O.J. and Gary Shansby limits, and grown up in our beautiful Shubert Foundation, Inc. studios in the SF Ballet building. The Smelick Family Denise Littlefield Sobel Estate of Natalie H. Stotz The Swanson Foundation AUDITION & REGISTRATION Richard J. Thalheimer Online registration for the audition Ms. Susan A. Van Wagner opens May 1. For complete audition Visa Inc. information: sfballet.org/school/auditions Wallis Foundation Phyllis C. Wattis Wells Fargo The E. L. Wiegand Foundation Diane B. Wilsey Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang The Zellerbach Family

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 59 CHAIRMAN'S COUNCIL The Chairman’s Council brings together a like-minded community of business leaders and philanthropists who share the goal of bringing world-class ballet to a world-class city. San Francisco Ballet gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Chairman’s Council members, who contributed gifts of $15,000 or more to the annual fund as of February 15, 2018. In addition to receiving Christensen Society benefits, members of the Chairman’s Council receive benefits tailored to their individual interests, such as the opportunity to sponsor a ballet or enjoy an exclusive viewing of a ballet rehearsal. If you would like more information about the Chairman’s Council, please contact Kera Jewett, Senior Officer, Major Gifts, [email protected] or 415 865 6638. We are pleased to give special recognition to donors who have been honored as ten-year members of the Chairman’s Council or Christensen Society. Their names are followed by a plus sign (+) in this section. Former SF Ballet Trustees and Associate Trustees are noted with an asterisk (*).

PRODUCER’S COUNCIL SPONSOR’S COUNCIL CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL Gifts of $75,000–$99,999 Gifts of $25,000–$49,999 Gifts of $15,000–$24,999

Chaomei Chen and Dr. Yu Wu Gioia and John Arrillaga+ Brenton and Lysbeth Warren Anderson+ Marie and Barry Lipman+ Eleonore Aslanian+ in memory of Edward Aslanian Rosemary B. Baker*+ Michael and Mary Schuh+ Ms. Eliza M. Brown+ Courtney Benoist and Jason M. Fish*+ Catherine and Mark Slavonia John G. Capo and Orlando Diaz-Azcuy+ Lydia and Steven Bergman Stacey B. Case+ Ms. Susan Blake+ Mr. and Mrs. Scott Connors Mr. and Mrs.* William S. Brandenburg PRESENTER’S COUNCIL Robert and Laura Cory Rachel Brass and Richard Foster Gifts of $50,000–$74,999 Katherine and Gregg Crawford+ Ron and Susan Briggs+ Dana and Robert Emery+ Paula and Bandel Carano Carol Emory and The Wingate Foundation+ J. and J. Chang Karen S. Bergman+ J. Stuart Francis and Diana Stark+ Rosalyn Chen Chavez Athena and Timothy Blackburn+ Joseph and Marianne Geagea Mr. and Mrs. Sol Coffino Hannah and Kevin Comolli Drs. Richard D. and Patricia Gibbs Ms. Phoebe Cowles+ David and Vicki Cox+ Kathleen Grant, M.D. and Thomas Jackson, M.D.+ Mrs. Nancy Curtiss and Mr. Todd Curtiss Margaret and Stephen Gill+ James C. Gries+ Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Deschamps-Braly Jim and Cecilia Herbert+ Thomas E. Horn+ Mr. Josh Elkes and Ms. Rachel Happ Mr. Hiro Iwanaga Ms. Jeri Lynn Johnson+ Paula M. Elmore* Mr. and Mrs. James C. Katzman+ Christine and Pierre Lamond+ Jacqueline* and Christian P. Erdman+ Nancy A. Kukacka Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Leavitt Lynn Feintech and Tony Bernhardt+ Christa and Mark Lopez Mark and Debra Leslie+ Mr. and Mrs. John L. Field+ Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue+ Ms. Tiffany Lockridge Randi and Bob Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Mobley Dr. Timothy Marten, MD and Ms. Mary Heylin+ Mr. Robert S. Fisher*+ SF Mrs. Henry I. Prien+ Ms. Laura McCabe-Edgar Mrs. Mortimer Fleishhacker+ Charles and Kara Roell Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman Patty Garbarino Joyce L. Stupski+ Alexander R. Mehran*+ Tim and Amanda Garry Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Pease James K. and Helen L. Goodwine+ SYMPHONY Karl and Holly Peterson Mary and Nicholas Graves+ Glenn H. Reid+ Brian and Elizaveta Gustafson Kacie and Michael Renc+ Mr. Isaac Hall Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roach+ Brian and Rene Hollins+ Mr. George R. Roberts+ James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen+ Larissa Roesch and Calder Roesch+ Mr. and Mrs. Terry Houlihan O.J.* and Gary Shansby+ Ms. Kathryn Huber and Mr. William Larry Binkley Marc Sinykin and Kevin Osinski John G. Kerns*+ Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Smelick+ William and Gretchen Kimball Fund+ Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor+ Patrice and Walther Lovato Mr. Richard J. Thalheimer+ Peter and Melanie Maier Mr. and Mrs. William Truscott Ms. Susan Marsch Barbara and Stephan Vermut Mr. Gregg Mattner Anonymous Justin T. McBaine Jane and Roger McCarthy+ Stewart McDowell Brady and Philip Brady Mr. Ronald W. Miller+ Mr. James E. Milligan*+ Mrs. Stuart G. Moldaw+ Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Newman+ Roland G. Ortgies and Carmela C. Anderson- Ortgies+ Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Sullivan Mr. James Parsons and Ms. Andrea Hong Dave and Judy Redo+ Mr. Gordon Russell and Dr. Bettina McAdoo+ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaw Christine Sherry and Lawson Fisher+ The Honorable and Mrs. George P. Shultz+ Mr. and Mrs. George H. Sollman Michael and Susanna Steinberg Roselyne C. Swig*+ Adam J. Thaler Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken+ Helgi and Marlene Tomasson The Whitman Family Foundation Beatrice Wood Ms. Patricia Wyrod Ms. Zhenya Yoder Diane and Howard Zack+ Dr. Janice and Mr. Jonathan Zakin+ Anonymous 60 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 COMING TO YOUR GALAXY SUMMER 2018

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SFB EAP season full-page guide template.indd fp template.indd 1 1 12/18/1712/13/17 12:02 3:37 PM PM THE CHRISTENSEN SOCIETY The Christensen Society, named for the three brothers whose artistic vision pioneered SF Ballet, offers a foundational connection to the heritage of the Company. Christensen Society member donations enable SF Ballet to underwrite season productions, acquire contemporary and classical works for our repertory, conduct national and international tours, train hundreds of young dancers at San Francisco Ballet School, and share the love of dance with underserved children and families throughout the Bay Area. San Francisco Ballet gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Christensen Society members, who contributed gifts of $2,500 to $14,999 to the annual fund as of February 15, 2018. For more information about the Christensen Society, please contact Ari Lipsky, Senior Manager, Individual Gifts, at [email protected] or 415 865 6635. The names of donors who have been honored as ten-year members of the Christensen Society are followed by a plus sign (+) in this section. Former SF Ballet Trustees and Associate Trustees are noted with an asterisk (*).

CHOREOGRAPHER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $7,500–$14,999

Joseph and Brooke Marta L. Morando+ Nina Cardoza and John Krowas Sig Anderman Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Donald Chaiken+ Norby Anderson Mrs. Janet Morris+ Dr. Annie Chang and Prof. Frederik Mooi Drue and Jerry Ashford+ Manfred K. Mundelius+ Robert Clegg*+ Kristen A. Avansino+ Miriam Sedman and Ralph Nyffenegger Jack and Gloria Clumeck Mr. and Ms. Bartley B. Baer Michel and Mekhala Oltramare Ms. Margaret Coblentz Dr. Margaret Bates and Mr. Scott Johnson+ Mr. Richard Oppenheimer Mr. Thomas J. Cooney+ Mr.* and Mrs. Joachim Bechtle+ Beth Price+ Mary B. Cranston*+ Davidson Bidwell-Waite and Edwin A. Waite+ Leslie and Nick Podell+ Mr. and Mrs. Angelos Dassios Claire and Jared Bobrow+ Mr. and Mrs. Neal I. Powers Mr. and Mrs. James A. Davidson Bruce Braden+ Mr. Fritz Quattlebaum+ Mr. and Mrs. David Dossetter+ Kelly and Samuel* Bronfman II Mr. Gordon L. Radley+ Mr. Frank J. Espina and Mrs. Andrea Valo-Espina The Robinson Family - AB Butler Family Mr. Jeremy Rishel Buck Farmer and Leida Schoggen Dr. Heidi H. Cary Mr. and Mrs. Sanford R. Robertson+ Mr.* and Mrs. Irwin Federman+ Ms. Carolyn Chandler Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Ryan+ Brent and Sandra Fery Jon B. Chaney+ Dorothy Saxe+ Ms. Katherine M. Fines and Mr. Henry Heines+ Antoinette Chatton+ Kamran and Helena Shamsavari+ Mr. Dennis N. Fluet+ Ms. Karen K. Christensen+ Mr. and Mrs. Roderick W. Shepard Camille and Sean Flynn+ Ms. Katie Colendich Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Sherwin+ Ms. Mayhill Fowler Dr. Charles Connor+ Anne and Michelle Shonk+ Mr. David B. Franklin and Mr. Ruedi F. Thoeni Ms. Phyllis Cook+ Ms. Cherida Collins Smith+ Mr. Douglas Frantz Michele Beigel Corash and Laurence Corash+ Mrs. Linda Snyder Phyllis K. Friedman+ Peter G. Curran The Spero Family Marilyn & Robert Funari Family Foundation Mrs. Courtney C. Dallaire Susanne Stevens+ Sally L. Glaser and David Bower+ Jill Daly The Streets Family+ Donald W. and Patricia L. Green Ms. Bonnie De Clark Alan and Patricia Tai+ William J. Gregory Juanita and Manuel Del Arroz+ Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Thornton+ Linda Groah Mr. and Mrs. Kevan Del Grande Drs. Oldrich and Silva Vasicek+ Duncan and Jeanie Gurley Mrs. Suzy Kellems Dominik*+ Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Vidinsky Mr. and Mrs. John and Lucie Hall Ms. Paulette Doudell+ Paul A. Violich Michael and Julie Hawkins Robert and Judith Duffy+ The Watkins Family+ Miranda Heller and Mark Salkind+ Samantha DuVall and Darren Bechtel Daniel and Marie Welch Joan and Alan Henricks Mr. Mory Ejabat Helena and William Wheeler Ms. Mary Herman Douglas and Barbara* Engmann+ Cynthia and Edgar Whipple+ Cynthia Hersey Mr. Edward G. Fernandez Ms. Deann Wright and Dr. Luke Evnin Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hoch Doris Fisher+ Mr. Tim C. Wu and Mr. Eric Murphy+ Mr. Patrick M. Hogan Mr. and Mrs. David Fleishhacker+ Kenneth and Anna Zankel, The Grove Hank J. Holland* Mr. and Mrs.* Greg Flynn Anonymous Ms. Kathryn Holmes Louella C. Fung Susan and Lyman Hurd John and Marcia Goldman+ Ms. Giovanna Jackson* Ann M. Griffiths+ Ms. Andrea Jacoby Dr. Elizabeth A. Harrison DANCER’S COUNCIL Dennis and Paula Jaffe Dr. Birt Harvey Gifts of $5,000–$7,499 Ms. Dorothy Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. A. Grant Heidrich III+ Bruce and Dasa Katz, Katz Family Foundation+ Ms. Kimberly M. Hughes Ms. Diane K. Aaron Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kautz Arnold and Laurel Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ach Ms. Lisa A. Keith+ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jasen Judy and David Anderson Kristen Kelly Guyton Jinkerson+ Mr. and Mrs. Hiroki Asai Rev. Keenan C. Kelsey Mrs. Barbara L. Johnson Ms. Corine Assouline Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Klein Dana and Larry Klamecki Mr. John Atwater and Ms. Diana L. Nelson Ms. Patricia D. Knight Ms. Micki Klearman Dr. Thomas and Julie Ballard Mrs. Maureen Knoll Linda and Robert Klett+ Ms. Deborah Taylor Barrera Ms. Suzanne Knott and Mr. Tom Rose Arlene and Steve Krieger+ Mr. Charles Barrett Mr. and Mrs. Martin M. Koffel Mrs. Maja Kristin Jeanne and William Barulich Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kostic Ms. Linda Kurtz Mr. and Mrs. Gene Becker Sharon Lambert and Charles Cohen+ Captain Witold Klimenko and Dr. Darlene Lanka-Klimenko+ Valli Benesch and Bob Tandler Mr. and Mrs. Jude Laspa+ Laube Family Foundation Ms. Sandra Moore Berrey Dr. and Mrs. G. Karl Ludwig, Jr.+ Ms. Betsy A. Linder+ Mr. Charles Alden Black, Jr. and Mr. C. Grisham, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Mark and Lori Litwin+ Mr. William Bonville Mr. Michael Manning Carol and Hal Louchheim+ Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Borelli Mr. Patrick McCabe Mr. and Mrs. Allen Luniewski Dr. Thomas and Janice Boyce+ Mr. and Mrs. John A. McQuown Lori and David F. Marquardt+ Ms. Carolyn J. and Mr. David W. Brady Mr. Steve Merlo Dr. and Mrs. David Joseph Martin Cynthia and Fred Brinkmann+ Mr. Wallace Mersereau Dr. Jack M. McElroy and Dr. Mary Ann Skidmore+ James R. and Melinda M. Brown Mary Mewha* Dr. Maya Meux Kelli and Steve Burrill+ Ms. Carole Middleton

62 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 TEN-YEAR CHRISTENSEN SOCIETY HONOREES Our loyal supporters are instrumental in helping us bring classical and contemporary ballet to life, one production at a time. Each year we honor donors who have been members of the Christensen Society for 10 consecutive years. The 2018 Season marks the 10th anniversary of the following Christensen Society members:

Drue and Jerry Ashford Sara and Catherine Harkins Louis Ptacek and Ying-Hui Fu Mr. and Mrs. William L. Thornton Ms. Linda Carson Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Leonard Mr. Fritz Quattlebaum Anonymous Drs. Valerie and Devron Char Jane and Roger McCarthy Kacie and Michael Renc John and Marcia Goldman Ms. Sandra Price Jon Q. and Ann S. Reynolds

We congratulate these donors and thank them for their steadfast support. We are pleased to give special recognition to donors who have been honored as 10-year Christensen Society Honorees in our program books. Their names are followed by a plus sign (+) in the Chairman’s Council and Christensen Society sections.

ASSOCIATE’S COUNCIL Gifts of $2,500–$4,999

Fred A. Middleton+ Mr. John Abbott and Mr. Clifford Clark Drs. Valerie and Devron Char+ Mr. Ted E. Mitchell+ Michael C Abramson+ Mr. Marvin Charney Ms. Alexandra Moses+ Norman Abramson and David Beery Mr. Philip Chou Kathleen Much and Stanley Peters Mr. Amir Adibi Mr. Paul Clifford Peggy and Willis Newton Molly and Stewart Agras+ Douglas Clough and Erin Uesugi Ms. Carla Oakley and Mr. Kevin McCarthy Mr. Bruce Albert and Dr. Chady F. Wonson+ Annelle Clute Mrs. Alexandra Ottesen Lisa and Maria Alvarez Susan and Mitchell Cohen+ Dennis Otto and Robert Meadows Ms. Sue Alvarez Ms. Claudia Coleman+ Ms. Mindy Owen Mrs. Diane E. Anderson Ms. Janet Coleman Ms. Elizabeth A. Peace Jola and John M. Anderson+ Richard and Sylvia Condon+ Melanie and Rob Pedrick+ Mr. Zachery Anderson Mrs. Glenna Cook Patricia Sanderson Port Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Andresen+ Jane A. Cook Ms. Ruth Quigley Ms. Gigi Anthony+ Alice M. Corning+ Ursula Elisabeth Ralph Ms. Christine DeSanze and Mr. Scott Anthony Colette V.A. Cornish Reach-A-Star Foundation Ms. Carol Blake Applebury Joan and Victor Corsiglia Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Richardson+ Ms. Maren Armour Ms. Carmen Côté De Vaughn Ms. Kathryn Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Greer Arthur+ Ms. Sandi Covell+ Ms. Marianne B. Robison+ Lori Arthur Ms. Nora C. Cregan Ms. Patricia Rock and Mr. John Fetzer Asmus Family Ms. Lilly Creighton Mr. and Mrs. David E. Rosenkrantz+ Chris and Janet Bajorek Ms. Jennifer Crutchfield Ms. Susan Rosin and Mr. Brian Bock Mr. Stephen A. Bansak III Mrs. Mary A. Culp+ Tiffany Loren Rowe Nate Hennings and Nora Barr Hennings Ms. Amy & Jamie Dananberg Paul Sack and Shirley Davis+ Karen Bartholomew Dr. Stephen J. Danko Mr. Michael Scagliotti and Mrs. Miya R. Peard Marie-José and Kent Baum+ Ms. Susan J. Davenport Kathleen Schiebold Mr. and Mrs. David W. Beach+ Mr. Dan Davies Carolynne Schloeder George Becker MD. Dr. and Mrs. R.L. Davis+ Dr. David Tai-Man Shen and Mrs. Elaine Shen+ Ms. Lydia Beebe Ms. Joan Dea and Mr. Lionel Conacher Mary Ann Somerville+ Ms. Desa C. Belyea Mr. Keith Dehoff Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Spolin+ Ms. Anne Leland Benham Dr. Richard M. Delfs+ Mr. Matthew Stepka Christopher and Camille Bently+ Marvin Dennis+ Ms. Fran A. Streets+ Ms. Carol Benz Mr. Curtis E. Dennison Maureen and Craig Sullivan Mrs. LaVerne Beres Ms. Simone Derayeh Mr. and Mrs. Jim Swartz+ Ms. Catherine Bergstrom Mr. David E. DeSilva Ms. Nadine Tang Diana Bersohn Julie Desloge and George A. Newhall Ms. Jody K. Thelander Philip Bettens Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dickson Mr. and Mrs. William L. Thornton+ RADM and Mrs. John W. Bitoff+ Ms. Patricia Dobashi Mr. Harry Tierney+ Amos and Carla Blackmon Mr. and Mrs. Theodore S. Dobos+ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tortorici Ms. Martha E. Blackwell Mrs. Abigail Donahue Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tuttle+ Ms. Phyllis Blair Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper III Janet Sassoon-Upton and John R. Upton, Jr.+ Ms. Kathleen Blanchard Michael E. Dreyer and Harry B. Ugol Ms. Lida Urbanek Mr. Noel T. Blos Mr. Garrettson Dulin, Jr. Larry M Vales Ms. Janet M. Bollier Mr. Fritz Eberly Ms. Susan Warble Bon Air Center Ms. Freya Eduarte and Mr. Philippe Courtot Daphne and Stuart Wells Dr. Stephen C. Born Diane and Joseph Ehrman III+ Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wertsch+ Germaine Brennan Foundation+ Dr. Robert Elfont and Ms. V'Anne Singleton Benjamin and Mary Ann Whitten Ms. Marilyn Brennan Ms. Susan English and Mr. Michael H. Kalkstein Karen and Stephen Wiel+ Ms. Erin Brooks and Mr. Todd Gottula Mr. Greg Evans Ms. Leslie Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Kent F. Brooks Mrs. Mickey Evans Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woodall Ms. Barbara Brown+ Rev. Richard Fabian Travis and Jim Wright+ Catherine Brown and Gerald Gwathney Tawna and John Farmer+ Dr. Keith R. Yamamoto+ Carole and Ed Brown+ Mr. Zé Figueirinhas Sharon and Robert Yoerg Mrs. Kathleen M. Brown* Mr. William E. Fisher+ Anonymous (8) Josephine Brownback+ Ms. Linda Jo Fitz+ Julie Brown-Modenos John and Kelly Foley Julie and Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Francies Jr Peggy and Donald Burns+ Mr. Ernest Freeman Adrian and Carol Byram Ms. Baerbel Freytag Mrs. John Callander+ Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Fricke Libi Cape+ Mr. Ian Friedland Damian S. Carmichael Ms. Joyce Friedman Nina Carroll+ Mr. Markus Fromherz Ms. Linda Carson+ Ellen Fujikawa Charles R. Castellano and Deryl Castellano Mr. Philip Fukuda Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cauthorn Dr. Kim Fullerton-Nelson Mr. Benedick Chai Mrs. Ayumi Funaki

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 63 THE CHRISTENSEN SOCIETY CONTINUED

Penny and Gregory Gallo+ Ms. Debra A. Leylegian+ Barbara Rambo* and Thomas A. Goossens+ Mr. John Garfinkle Ms. Judy Lichterman James Deveney and Steve Rausch Ms. Jane Gazzola Claire and Herbert Lindenberger+ Drs. Garry and Kathy Rayant+ Joan and Jim Gillette Dr. Mary Jane W. Loda Ms. Elizabeth S. Reed Ms. Joy Gim Carol and Bill Lokke Judge and Mrs. Charles B. Renfrew Glaucoma Center of San Francisco John and Kate Lord+ Louise and Paul Renne Ms. Barbara Glynn Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Louie Ms. Kathryn Renschler Jennie Golde Mr. and Mrs. Steve Love Jon Q. and Ann S. Reynolds+ Nora Goldschlager Dan Lowenstein & Mylo Schaaf Thomas C. Rindfleisch and A. Carlisle Scott+ Drs. Meryl Gordon and Robert Schermer Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ludgus+ Mr. Chip Roame Phillip and Philippa Newfield Gordon+ Mr. Harvey Lynch Deborah Robbins and Henry Navas Ms. Shelley Gordon Mrs. Rhondalee Mahendroo L.L. Roberts and A.R. Wilbanks+ Mr. James Gosling+ Howard and Siesel Maibach+ Mrs. Rosemary Rodd Spitzer Mr. Michael Grady Ms. Janice Maloney Jack and Fran Rominger Richard L. Grant and James L. Miller+ Dr. Aditi Mandpe Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roothman Ms. Joan Green Mr. Richard Martin Ms. Jeanne Rose Judy and Josh Green Ms. Virginia Martin Ms. Patricia Rosenberg Nonie H. Greene and Todd Werby+ Ms. Anita Martinez+ Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rosenthal Ms. Kera Jewett and Dr. William Greene Ms. Connie V. Martinez Kate Rowe+ Claude and Nina Gruen+ Ms. Mary E. Massee Mr. Paul L. Rowe and Mr. Michael Sereno Mimi Haas+ Holly and Stephen Massey Mrs. Chandra K. Rudd Stephen Halprin+ Ms. Dosia Matthews Mr. Roberto Ruiz and Mr. Kevin Lee Ms. Maria Hilakos Hanke Niko and Steven Mayer+ Dr. Ellen Salwen Alexander and Catherine Hargrave+ Mr. John Mazurski Louise Adler Sampson Sara and Catherine Harkins+ Jennifer J. McCall+ Ms. Jennifer Sandell Mr. and Mrs. David M. Haskin+ Dr. and Mrs. W. D. McCallum+ Mr. Warren H. Sandell Mr. and Mrs.* Kenneth Hecht Mr. Glenn McCoy+ Ms. Letitia Sanders John F. Heil+ Dan McDaniel, M.D. Donald and Terry Sarver+ Mary Lou Ambinder Heine Ms. Kathleen McEligot+ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Saveri Troy and Alysia Helming Joan and Robert McGrath+ Gwendy and Anthony Scampavia+ Dr. and Mrs. I. C. Henderson+ Ms. Roberta McMullan William and Linda Schieber Ms. Shelly Hernandez Lisa and Jason McPhate Peter Lotnar Schmidt Virginia Hind Hodgson Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Mebine Warren A. Schneider Susan and Russell Holdstein Philanthropic Fund Mr. David E. Meders Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Schroeder Sunny Holland and Alan Pryor+ Mr. Martin Melia Ms. Deborah Schultz Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hollenbeck Dr. Beryl Mell+ Mrs. S. D. Schwabacher+ Ms. Carol Ann Holley Mr. and Mrs.* James J. Messemer+ Mrs. Avé M. Seltsam and Mr. James D. Seltsam, Jr. JHGM Foundation Byron R. Meyer*+ Joan and Lynn Seppala Dr. Serena Hu Mr. and Mrs. Lou Meylan Ms. Teresa Serata Cordell and Susan Hull Richard Miller and John Vinton+ Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Shapiro+ Ms. Marie Louise Hurabiell Mr. and Mrs. Michael Millman Mr. and Mrs. Drew Sievers Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson Mitchell Mr. Lawrence J. Simi Carolyn T. Hutton Susan and Jack Molinari+ Mrs. Harriet J. Simpson+ Ms. Meghan Imrie Mr. and Mrs. Ken Moonie+ Earl Singer Ms. Karen J. Irvin Mr. and Mrs. Donald Morgan Dr. Dale Skeen+ Ms. Jane L. Johnson Gary and Eileen Morgenthaler Mrs. Paula Anne Smith Ms. Mary Johnson Dianne and Brian Morton Ms. H. Marcia Smolens+ Todd Jolly and Judith Murio Mr. Milton J. Mosk and Mr. Thomas Foutch+ Ms. Eileen Soden Debra and Blake Jorgensen Ms. Christine Motley James Sokol Mr. Peter Joshua Ms. Sharon S. Muir Mr. Scott C. Sollers Sandra Juracich+ Mr. Roger Murray Rosemary G. Southwood Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kahn Ms. Vija Hovgard Nadai Ms. Ellice Sperber and Ms. Emma Elizalde Ms. Roberta Kameda Ms. Donna Neff Mr. and Mrs. Will Stegall Ms. Daru H. Kawalkowski+ Mrs. Shirley Negrin+ Ruth and Alan Stein+ Mr. and Mrs. Jascha Kaykas-Wolff Dr. Alex Nellas Lisa J. Stern-Hazlewood+ Dr. Amelia Kaymen Ms. Amanda Nelson Mr. Paul Stone Mr. Kris Kazaks Drs. Andrew and Lynn Newman+ Mr. and Mrs. Philip Strause Tom Kennedy and Brad Hipkins Jeanne Newman Mrs. Dwight V. Strong+ Drs. Douglas and Carol Kerr Ms. Allison Nielsen Mrs. Mary Stuard Ms. Kathryn Kersey Patricia and Hayes Noel Joseph J. Sturkey+ Ms. Jennifer H. Kilpatrick Mr. Paul Nordine Ms. Jane Su Kevin King and Meridee Moore+ Mrs. Wilma J. Nurenberg Mr. Peter Sullivan Mrs. Jerome Ormond Kirschbaum+ Mr. Karl F. Nygren Kimberly and Philip Summe Ms. Nancy Kittle Ms. Linda L. Olson and Mr. David Polnaszek Ms. Joan Sutton Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Koenig Mr. and Mrs. Philip Ouyang+ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Swartz Mr. Abner Korn Mr. William D. Parent+ Darian and Rick Swig+ Hal and Iris Korol+ Mr. Deric Patrick Ms. Lita Swiryn Reiko and Yasunobu Kyogoku Mr. Frank Patt Mr. John J. Tallarida Laura La Gassa Dr. Eugene H. Peck Ms. Trecia Knapp and Mr. Bruno Tapolsky Mrs. Carla L. Labat Ms. Patricia Peterson Mrs. Bente Tellefsen+ Ms. Elmira C. Lagundi The Phillips Family Mr. James Teter Mrs. Brigitte Laier Jin-Piao Trust Judy and Harold Ticktin Mr. Bryan Lamkin and Ms. Arianna Carughi Hilary C. Pierce and Keir J. Beadling Howard and Ann Timoney Ms. Nancy L. Larson Michael Pirrung Mr. Ronald R. Titus Mr. Bill L. Lee Edward and Linda Plant+ Ms. Mary Tobias Patricia W. Leicher Melissa and Ritchie Post+ Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Tobkin Julius Leiman-Carbia & Kyle Thomas Smith Tanya Marietta Powell+ Mr. Dana Tom Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Leonard+ Dale and Danielle Power Lowell Tong and Alasdair Neale Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Lepper+ Mrs. Twyla Powers Ms. Christine Z. Tooby Mrs. Mona Lessing-Harroch+ Ms. Sandra Price+ Ms. Amanda Topper+ Mr. Robert Levenson Mr. John Pringle Ms. Esther Torres Mr. Roy Levin and Mrs. Jan Thomson Louis Ptacek and Ying-Hui Fu+ Suzanne M. Tucker and Timothy F. Marks Pam G. Lewis Ms. Mary J. Quinn Ms. Helen Tyree Ms. Allison Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Ralph Gayla Tyson and Dan Cotter

64 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 Barbara Rambo* and Thomas A. Goossens+ Mr. Herbert Uetz James Deveney and Steve Rausch Patricia Unterman and Tim Savinar Drs. Garry and Kathy Rayant+ Dr. Conrad Vial Ms. Elizabeth S. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Gregg von Thaden Judge and Mrs. Charles B. Renfrew Mr. Richard A. Votava Louise and Paul Renne Mrs. Virginia Wade Ms. Kathryn Renschler Ms. Adrian Walker Jon Q. and Ann S. Reynolds+ Mr. Richard Walsh Thomas C. Rindfleisch and A. Carlisle Scott+ Emily and Bob Warden Mr. Chip Roame Rosalie V. Weaver Deborah Robbins and Henry Navas Eitan Fenson and Barbara Weinstein L.L. Roberts and A.R. Wilbanks+ Melanie and Ronald Wilensky Mrs. Rosemary Rodd Spitzer Ms. Freddi Wilkinson Jack and Fran Rominger David and Karima Wilner Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roothman Ms. Faye Wilson Ms. Jeanne Rose Mr. and Mrs. Terry Winograd Ms. Patricia Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Eric Wold Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rosenthal Ms. Muriel Wolverton Kate Rowe+ Celeste and Darryl Woo Mr. Paul L. Rowe and Mr. Michael Sereno Laureen Woodruff+ Mrs. Chandra K. Rudd Ms. Daphne Wray Mr. Roberto Ruiz and Mr. Kevin Lee Ms. Kelly Wulff Dr. Ellen Salwen Miss Carla J. Wytmar Louise Adler Sampson Dr. Frances H. Yankie Ms. Jennifer Sandell Mr. Babak Yazdani Mr. Warren H. Sandell Jacqueline Young

Ms. Letitia Sanders Ms. Tatyana Yurovsky The Sleeping Beauty // © Erik Tomasson Donald and Terry Sarver+ Mr. James Zawada Mr. and Mrs. Richard Saveri Catherine Zimmerman Gwendy and Anthony Scampavia+ Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zlot William and Linda Schieber Anonymous (8) Peter Lotnar Schmidt Warren A. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Schroeder Ms. Deborah Schultz Mrs. S. D. Schwabacher+ Mrs. Avé M. Seltsam and Mr. James D. Seltsam, Jr. Joan and Lynn Seppala Ms. Teresa Serata

Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Shapiro+ Sasha De Sola and Sean Orza in Tomasson’s Mr. and Mrs. Drew Sievers Mr. Lawrence J. Simi Mrs. Harriet J. Simpson+ Earl Singer Dr. Dale Skeen+ Mrs. Paula Anne Smith Ms. H. Marcia Smolens+ Ms. Eileen Soden JOIN FRIENDS OF James Sokol Mr. Scott C. Sollers SAN FRANCISCO BALLET Rosemary G. Southwood Ms. Ellice Sperber and Ms. Emma Elizalde Mr. and Mrs. Will Stegall Celebrate your love of ballet by becoming a Friend of SF Ballet. Ruth and Alan Stein+ Lisa J. Stern-Hazlewood+ Our Friends get closer than ever before. Watch a ballet come Mr. Paul Stone to life in an open dress rehearsal, get early access to purchase Mr. and Mrs. Philip Strause Mrs. Dwight V. Strong+ tickets, and meet fellow donors and Company artists at special Mrs. Mary Stuard events. Loyal supporters like you ensure that the Ballet will be Joseph J. Sturkey+ Ms. Jane Su around for future generations to enjoy. Mr. Peter Sullivan Kimberly and Philip Summe Ms. Joan Sutton Mr. and Mrs. Peter Swartz Darian and Rick Swig+ Ms. Lita Swiryn Mr. John J. Tallarida Ms. Trecia Knapp and Mr. Bruno Tapolsky JOIN US, WON’T YOU? Mrs. Bente Tellefsen+ Visit sfballet.org/donate or call 415 865 6628 Mr. James Teter Judy and Harold Ticktin to make your gift and receive exclusive benefits Howard and Ann Timoney Mr. Ronald R. Titus designed to enhance your SF Ballet experience. Ms. Mary Tobias Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Tobkin Mr. Dana Tom Lowell Tong and Alasdair Neale Ms. Christine Z. Tooby Ms. Amanda Topper+ Ms. Esther Torres Suzanne M. Tucker and Timothy F. Marks Ms. Helen Tyree Gayla Tyson and Dan Cotter

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 65 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT Forward-thinking organizations understand the need to create a vibrant civic life in the places they do business. Leading corporations— local, national, and international—enhance their reputations by supporting SF Ballet performances, touring, special events, and our community engagement programs. And when they do, they are able to promote their brand to an audience of opinion makers, entertain clients at performances, and receive other special benefits as part of a customized benefits package. Giving from private, family, and community foundations helps us commission new works; design and build sets and costumes; take the Company on tour; and engage our communities. To learn more about Corporate giving, contact Colette Whitney, Corporate Giving Officer, [email protected] or 415 865 6651. To learn more about Foundation giving, contact Elizabeth Luu, Grants Manager, at [email protected] or 415 865 6616.

CORPORATE SUPPORT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL DANCER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $100,000–$249,999 Gifts of $15,000–$24,999 Gifts of $5,000–$9,999

Osterweis Capital Management Almaden Athleta Dodge & Cox Denning and Company PRESENTER’S COUNCIL La Perla Lillet Gifts of $50,000–$99,999 Pacific Union Real Estate McRoskey Mattress Company SpotHero Bank of America

Chevron CHOREOGRAPHER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $10,000–$14,999 Innovation Global Capital ASSOCIATE'S COUNCIL Gifts of $2,500–$4,999 JPMorgan Chase & Co. B|O|S (Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, LLC) KPMG Gap Foundation GI Partners Pacific Gas and Electric Company Mechanics Bank Wealth Management TMG Partners Shreve & Co. SPONSOR’S COUNCIL UBS Gifts of $25,000–$49,999 U.S. Bank Foundation Willis Towers Watson Freed of London Kaiser Permanente Tiffany & Co. Visa

IN-KIND SUPPORT GRAND BENEFACTOR’S COUNCIL PRESENTER’S COUNCIL CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL Gifts of $250,000 and above Gifts of $50,000–$99,999 Gifts of $15,000–$24,999

Bay Area Rapid Transit J Riccardo Benavides Allegra Entertainment & Events FITNESS SF KNTV Ernest Vineyards KGO-TV KPIX Sutter Securities Incorporated San Francisco Chronicle McCalls Catering & Events Wish Social Events Nob Hill Gazette ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP CHOREOGRAPHER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $100,000–$249,999 San Francisco magazine Gifts of $10,000–$14,999

Cibo Almaden KCBS SPONSOR’S COUNCIL KQED TV Gifts of $25,000–$49,999 Miette

The San Francisco Examiner / SF Weekly Sterling Brands DANCER’S COUNCIL United Airlines Gifts of $5,000–$9,999

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66 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT DANCER’S COUNCIL GRAND BENEFACTORS CHOREOGRAPHER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $5,000–$9,999 Gifts of $250,000 and above Gifts of $10,000–$14,999

Athleta San Francisco Grants for the Arts The Guzik Foundation Denning and Company Koret Foundation Walter & Elise Haas Fund Lillet Zellerbach Family Foundation San Francisco Ballet School Students // © Erik Tomasson San Francisco Ballet School Students McRoskey Mattress Company ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL SpotHero Gifts of $100,000–$249,999 DANCER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $5,000–$9,999 Bently Foundation, in honor of Glenn McCoy’s ASSOCIATE'S COUNCIL 30 years of leadership at San Francisco Ballet Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, Inc. SUMMER Gifts of $2,500–$4,999 The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fleishhacker Foundation GI Partners George F. Jewett Foundation Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund BALLET TMG Partners The Bernard Osher Foundation The Hope and Norman Hope Foundation Bob Ross Foundation Jerome Robbins Foundation CAMP Walter S. Johnson Foundation For children ages 8–12 PRESENTER’S COUNCIL The Kingsley Foundation Gifts of $50,000–$99,999 Learn ballet technique and Flora Family Foundation ASSOCIATE’S COUNCIL explore children’s roles in Gifts of $2,500–$4,999 Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation SF Ballet’s repertory in The Diana Dollar Knowles Foundation The Amphion Foundation weeklong camps. National Endowment for the Arts Lakeside Foundation DATES The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Wender Weis Foundation for Children Jul 9–13 | Nutcracker

Jul 16–20 | Swan Lake CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL SPONSOR’S COUNCIL Jul 23–27 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream Gifts of $15,000–$24,999 Gifts of $25,000–$49,999 Jul 30–Aug 3 | The Sleeping Beauty Allegra Entertainment & Events Heising-Simons Foundation TUITION Ernest Vineyards The Hellman Foundation $25 registration fee | $550 per week Sutter Securities Incorporated H. B. and Lucille Horn Foundation Wish Social Events The William G. Irwin Charity Foundation LOCATION The Charles Henry Leach, II Fund SF Ballet School Faculty lead all CHOREOGRAPHER’S COUNCIL E. L. Wiegand Foundation camp classes at Miss Tilly’s Ballet School 5499 California Street (at 17th Avenue) Gifts of $10,000–$14,999 CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL Almaden Gifts of $15,000–$24,999 KQED TV Miette Mimi and Peter Haas Fund REGISTER NOW John Brockway Huntington Foundation sfballet.org/school/summer-sessions DANCER’S COUNCIL Gifts of $5,000–$9,999

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PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 67 THE JOCELYN VOLLMAR LEGACY CIRCLE Your estate gift to SF Ballet enrolls you in very special company: the Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle. Jocelyn Vollmar’s career extended from performing roles in SF Ballet’s first Nutcracker and Swan Lake to training generations of dancers in SF Ballet School. We created the Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle to recognize and thank those individuals who, as a part of their own legacy, make an investment in the future of SF Ballet. Members gain special insight into SF Ballet and the creative process of dance through an annual celebratory luncheon and other behind-the-scenes events. Legacy gifts come in all sizes and include gifts from wills and living trusts; gifts that return lifetime income, such as charitable gift annuities; our pooled income fund; and other planned gifts. For information about Legacy Circle membership and estate gift options, please contact Elizabeth Lani, Senior Officer, Planned Giving, [email protected] or 415 865 6623.

Michael C. Abramson Arthur Bienenstock Robert Clegg Ms. Frances Eubanks Patricia Lindsay and Norman Abramson and Patricia Ellis Bixby Bette Jean Clute Joan Falender Donald W. Green David Beery Phyllis B. Blair Michael Q. Cohen and Merritt and Mary Lou Fink Roger W. Green Sophie and Ted Aldrich Aviva Shiff Boedecker Carol Berman Cohen C. Candace Fitzgerald James Gries Anthony J. Alfidi Jon Borset Maggie Collins Richard Fitzgerald Martin C. Hamilton Cal Anderson Dr. Carol Bowden Jane A. Cook Victoria Flavell Rosemary (Rosie) Hayes Jola and John M. Anderson Bruce Braden Mary Ellen Copner Frannie Fleishhacker Terry Hynes Helm David and Judith Preves Anderson Lisa K. Breakey Colette V.A. Cornish Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Foote Cecilia and Jim Herbert Steven D. Arias Ron and Susan Briggs Sandi Covell Mary Jo Francis Jerry Hill Roulhac and Tom Austin Leonard Brill and Richard Sanjour Deborah Pearson Cowley Douglas Frantz Linda K. Hmelo Nancy R. Axelrod Cynthia and Frederick Brinkmann Kenneth and Diane Cox Sandra and Alfred Fricke Betty Hoener ML Baird, in memory of Ms. Agnes Chen Brown Lynda Meyer Cronin Joseph and Antonia Friedman Holly and Chris Hollenbeck Travis & Marion Baird James R. and Melinda M. Brown Gerald Currier Connie Marie Gaglio Thomas E. Horn Rosemary B. Baker Marjorie and Gerald Burnett Ramona Manke Davis Shelby and Frederick Gans Mr. and Mrs. Terry Houlihan Richard C. Barker Julie and David Burns Wesley F. Day John Garfinkle Vija M. Hovgard Valera Ferrea Barnhart Patricia Butler Cornelia Y. de Schepper Jacqueline Ghosin Harold D. and Jocelyn P. Hughes Marie Schoppe Bartee Adrian and Carol Byram Martha Debs Stephen and Margaret Gill Marie Louise Hurabiell Margaret Bates, M.D. Patricia J. Campbell David and Alaina DeMartini S. Bradley Gillaugh Gary Isoardi Richard and Kathy Beal Jack Capito Karel and Mark Detterman Jane Gitschier Dorothy and Bradford Jeffries Cecelia Beam Linda Parker Cassady Charles Dishman Teri and Andy Goodman Berdine Jernigan Dr. and Mrs. Walter E. Berger Michaela Cassidy Earl Diskin Meryl Gordon, M.D. Mrs. Barbara Johnson Karen S. Bergman Annag Rose Chandler Christine H. Dohrmann Michael W. Grady Susan E. and John E. Johnson Jr. Shannyn Bessoni Antoinette Chatton Sam Alicia Duke Jeneal Granieri Mark G. Jones Davidson Bidwell-Waite and Larry Chow and Ralph Wolf Joseph Ehrman III Lawrence Grauman, Jr. Mrs. René Jopé Edwin A. Waite Diane and William Clarke Carol Emory Joan and Michael Green Dr. Devorah Joseph in memory of Nerrissa Joseph David A. Kaplan Rose Adams Kelly ESTATE GIFTS John Kerns Mrs. Jerome Ormond Kirschbaum San Francisco Ballet gratefully recognizes the following patrons whose contributions to SF Ballet through Peter and Ludmila Eggleton their estates have provided meaningful support since July 1, 2013. The Ballet is honored by their generosity Linda and Robert Klett Suzanne Knott and Tom Rose and vision for the future of the institution. Bequests and other estate gifts, both large and small, are an Carole Dillon Knutson integral part of the Ballet’s financial well-being. To learn how to include the Ballet in your own plans, please Ms. June Kronberg contact Elizabeth Lani, Senior Officer, Planned Giving, [email protected] or 415 865 6623. Joan Shelbourne Kwansa Sharon Lampton Gifts of $1,000,000 and Above Gifts of $100,000–$249,999 Gifts up to $50,000 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Graham Leaper Donald F. Houghton Nancy Croley Thomas D. Benson Kimun Lee Diana Dollar Knowles Barbara A. Daily Eileen Bobrow Marcia Lowell Leonhardt Natalie H. Stotz William K. Dick Ms. Margaret M. Cronin Irv Lichtenwald and Lloyd N. Harper Paul E. Fey Stephen R. Ripple Gifts of $500,000–$999,999 Gloria R. Hendricks James Flanagan and E. Katherine Wells Betsy Lim Lee R. Crews George W. Lord Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Glauser Susan R. Lin Milan Milton Holdorf Ms. Vera M. Long Ruth Caron Jacobs Carol and Hal Louchheim Mary Jo Pace Phyllis W. Nelson John E. Leveen Barbara Lowe Dr. Florence R. Oaks Ruth Morse James J. Ludwig Gifts of $250,000–$499,000 Olivia Thebus Lee J. Mosley Mr. and Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Ruth A. Copley Julia Nash Susan Adair Malecki Delores M. Schweizer Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999 Rachel H. Norman Jo Markovich Anonymous Ms. Edith Hammerslough Jessica M. Putney John Robert Martin Bernice Itkin Michelle Scholz Connie V. Martinez S. Grace Williams Paul C. Silva Mr. James D. Marver Marion and Willis Slusser Erika-Marie Matthes L. Jay Tenenbaum Dosia Matthews The Wingate Foundation Gwen and Hamp Mauvais Anonymous (10) Steven and Niko Mayer

68 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAMS 05 & 06 Ms. Shawna Marie McDonald Sue Sommer Suzanne and Charles Thornton Benjamin and Mary Ann Whitten Kathlyn McDonough and Sharon St. James Jazz Tigan Karen and Stephen Wiel Dennis Yamamoto Stephen B. Steczynski Mr. and Mrs. Howard Timoney Mr. Burlington Willes Donald L. McGee Nancy Stern Michael E. Tully Miles Archer Woodlief Mrs. William L. McGee Susanne Stevens Janet Sassoon-Upton and Laureen Woodruff Dr. Terri McGinnis Mrs. Dwight V. Strong John R. Upton, Jr. Dr. Robert and Sharon Yoerg Betsy and Ed McGuigan Jane and Jay Taber Carolyn and Terry Voet Janice Hansen Zakin James H. McMurray Tom Taffel and Bill Repp Mrs. Katherine Wallin Kristine A. Zeigler Susan J. Meadows Mr. and Mrs. Alan Tai Mrs. Barbara W. Wanvig Mrs. Stephen A. Zellerbach Robert L. Merjano Jack Eugene Teeters Rosalie V. Weaver Anonymous (68) Steve Merlo Sam Thal, M.D. Dr. Frieda Weiner Karl Meyer and Kelly Hails Richard J. Thalheimer Daphne and Stuart Wells J. Sanford Miller Ms. Joyce E. Miller Mr. Sidney F. Mobell Nancy and Larry Mohr Patricia Mok Milton J. Mosk Elise Mosse Kathleen Much Tom and Anne Muller Peter Johnson Musto Virginia Mylenki and James J. Pidgeon Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Newman Tom Nicoll Jeffrey A. Nigh Norman and Hillevi Null Peter Nye and James Marks John S. Osterweis James O. Pearson, Jr. Karen Posner Steve and Cleo Postle Roger and Deborah Potash Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Price Jane Radcliffe Dave and Judy Redo Glenn H. Reid M.A. Rey-Bear Trust WE USE Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Ringe Pat Roberts Elsie Robertson ESPETA CHURASCARIA Pauline and Richard Roothman 100% NATURAL Renee and Dennis Ross Renee Rubin 1/2V Karl Ruppenthal and Jo Maxon Pat Sanderson MESQUITE R. L. Sauer Dorothy Saxe Norman Schlossberg Ms. Catherine Schmidt CHARCOAL Walter and Sharon Schneider Al Schroeder Leonard C. Schwab Harold E. Segelstad AUTHENTIC BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE Mr. and Mrs. Jack Self Christine Selle Fourteen signature cuts of meat roasted over a mesquite grill. Michael and Daryl Shafran We use fresh produce to prepare our salads daily. J. Gary and O.J. Shansby Foundation Nothing comes from cans. John-Luke Sheridan Mrs. Carter Parrish Sherlin TASTE THE DIFFERENCE! Carol R. Sholin Edward M. Silva and James H. McMurray SAN FRANCISCO | SAN MATEO Marc Sinykin and Kevin Osinski Charles G. Smith ESPETUS.COM Dr. W. Byron Smith M. Eileen Soden, Ph.D. Scott C. Sollers

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | 415 865 2000 | 69 ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION The San Francisco Ballet Endowment Foundation is a separate nonprofit public benefit corporation that holds and manages endowment funds, with the goal of supplying a reliable source of support while protecting its investments against inflation and wide swings in the capital markets. Each year, a transfer from the Endowment Foundation provides support for a variety of SF Ballet needs, including the creation of new works, touring, financial aid for SF Ballet School students, and community education and outreach programs. It is now the third largest source of revenue for SF Ballet after ticket sales and contributions. Donors who make gifts of $25,000 or more to the endowment have a fund created in their name. Named funds can provide general support or support designated for specific uses at SF Ballet, SF Ballet School, and SF Ballet’s Education Programs. For more information on endowed funds or the San Francisco Ballet Endowment Foundation, please contact Elizabeth Lani, Senior Officer, Planned Giving, [email protected] or 415 865 6623.

SF Ballet is honored to list the following named funds that contribute support for education and training initiatives. Those highlighted with an asterisk (*) were fully or primarily funded through bequests and other planned gifts.

ENDOWED FUNDS FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS ENDOWED FUNDS FOR SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL Suzy Kellems Dominik School and Education Fund Philip P. Berelson Scholarship Fund* The James Family Endowed Scholarship Fund Gaia Fund The Bertelsen Family Fund Dorothy and Bradford Jeffries Scholarship Fund Walter & Elise Haas Education Fund Christopher Boatwright Memorial G. William Jewell Dance in Schools Libby and Craig Heimark Fund Endowed Scholarship Fund Endowed Scholarship Fund* William S. Howe, Jr. Fund* S. E. Bush, Jr. School Fund* Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Ormond Kirschbaum Mark and Debra Leslie Education and Outreach Fund Dr. and Mrs. George Cassady Student Scholarship Fund Trainee Fellowship Fund The Marie O'Gara Lipman Endowment for Harold and Ruby Christensen Scholarship Fund The Charles Henry Leach, II Fund for DISC Scholarships Dance Education in the Public Schools Ruth A. Copley Endowed Scholarship Fund* The Charles Henry Leach, II Fund for School Scholarships Randee and Joseph Seiger Education and Outreach Fund Lee R. Crews School Fund* Natalie Lauterstein Miller Memorial Fund Joyce Taylor Education Fund Barbara A. Daily Scholarship Fund* Phyllis W. Nelson Scholarship Fund* Sonia H. Evers School Fund Shirley Black Palmer Scholarship Fund The Fifth Age of Man Foundation Scholarship Fund Yurie and Carl Pascarella Fund Rita A. Gustafson Scholarship Fund* Bob Ross Scholarship Fund Philip and Alicia Hammarskjold Fund Delores M. Schweizer Fund* The William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship Fund K. Hart Smith Fund* Eric Hellman Scholarship Fund Natalie H. Stotz Fund* Chris and Warren Hellman Endowed Scholarship Fund Helgi Tomasson School Fund for New Work Rosalie G. Hellman Memorial Scholarship Fund Charlotte and Harry A. Turner DISC Family Fund Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts Introduction to Marion Ury Fund* Ballet Scholarship Fund* Keith White Scholarship Fund YOUR LEGACY, “Our bequest to San Francisco Ballet is a way of immortalizing our love of this art form. For us, ballet represents the highest and most exquisite expression of beauty, power, and discipline– OUR FUTURE combining movement, music, and cultural values. Our gift gives us the satisfaction of knowing that, through our legacy, our spirit (in some small way) will live on; engaging, enlightening, and enriching others for generations to come.”

Tom Taffel and Bill Repp are familiar faces in the War Memorial Opera House. Both have served as ushers for more than twenty years and have helped countless patrons—whether in the SF Ballet season or the SF Opera season—enjoy their experience.

For information about bequests, charitable gift annuities, and other estate gift options, contact Elizabeth Lani in SF Ballet’s planned giving office at415 865 6623 or [email protected]. Patrons who include SF Ballet in their will or other estate plans are invited to membership in the Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle and celebrated as essential members of the SF Ballet family.

Tom Taffel and Bill Repp, Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle members, and Principal Dancer Angelo Greco // © Chris Hardy San Francisco Ballet School students // © Erik Tomasson

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The James Family Endowed Scholarship Fund Dorothy and Bradford Jeffries Scholarship Fund G. William Jewell Dance in Schools Endowed Scholarship Fund* Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Ormond Kirschbaum Trainee Fellowship Fund The Charles Henry Leach, II Fund for DISC Scholarships The Charles Henry Leach, II Fund for School Scholarships Natalie Lauterstein Miller Memorial Fund Phyllis W. Nelson Scholarship Fund* Shirley Black Palmer Scholarship Fund Yurie and Carl Pascarella Fund Bob Ross Scholarship Fund Delores M. Schweizer Fund* K. Hart Smith Fund* Natalie H. Stotz Fund* Helgi Tomasson School Fund for New Work Charlotte and Harry A. Turner DISC Family Fund Marion Ury Fund* Keith White Scholarship Fund YOUR LEGACY, “Our bequest to San Francisco Ballet is a way of immortalizing our love of this art form. For us, ballet represents the highest and most exquisite expression of beauty, power, and discipline– OUR FUTURE combining movement, music, and cultural values. Our gift gives us the satisfaction of knowing that, through our legacy, our spirit (in some small way) will live on; engaging, enlightening, and enriching others for generations to come.”

Tom Taffel and Bill Repp are familiar faces in the War Memorial Opera House. Both have served as ushers for more than twenty years and have helped countless patrons—whether in the SF Ballet season or the SF Opera season—enjoy their experience.

For information about bequests, charitable gift annuities, and other estate gift options, contact Elizabeth Lani in SF Ballet’s planned giving office at415 865 6623 or [email protected]. Patrons who include SF Ballet in their will or other estate plans are invited to membership in the Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle and celebrated as essential members of the SF Ballet family.

Tom Taffel and Bill Repp, Jocelyn Vollmar Legacy Circle members, and Principal Dancer Angelo Greco // © Chris Hardy BARBARA FRACCHIA ART STUDIO Operatic and Ballet Paintings

Broadway oil on canvas, 12 x12

BF 012918 broadway fp.indd 1 2/6/18 4:06 PM THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS The San Francisco Ballet “family” extends beyond the stage to include a large community of dedicated and generous volunteers who are personally involved in the Company’s success. The tireless efforts of these volunteers contribute greatly to SF Ballet’s accomplishments.

AUXILIARY Vibrant, energetic, and passionately committed to the success of each new ballet season, Ballet Auxiliary members comprise an exclusive group of women who leverage their talents in fundraising events that each year raise more than $2 million for SF Ballet.

LEADERSHIP Mrs. Alexander Leff, President Mrs. G. Steven Burrill, Recording Secretary Ms. Beverley Siri Borelli, Treasurer Ms. Ann Kathryn Baer, Vice President Mrs. John E. Fetzer, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Robert W. Wood, Event Treasurer

ACTIVE MEMBERS Ms. Blanca Aguirre Mrs. Rhonda Mahendroo Ms. Rosemary B. Baker Miss Elizabeth Leep Ms. Donna Bachle Mrs. Heather Cassady Martin Ms. Katherine Banks Ms. Debra A. Leylegian Ms. Deborah Taylor Barrera Ms. Laura V. Miller Mrs. Patrick V. Barber Mrs. Barry R. Lipman Miss Carol Benz Mrs. Emily Millman Mrs. Kent T. Baum Ms. Sheila M. Lippman Mrs. Steven Bergman Dr. Shokooh Miry Ms. Barbara Bechelli Mrs. John C. Lund Ms. Catherine Bergstrom Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson Mitchell Mrs. Peter Berliner Mrs. Robert W. Maier Mrs. Ashley Berman Ms. Margaret Mitchell Mrs. John W. Bitoff Ms. Susan A. Malecki Ms. L’Ann Bingham Mrs. Monika Moscoso-Riddle Mrs. Athena Blackburn Ms. Sandra Mandel Ms. Giselle Bosc Mrs. Sarah Newmarker Mrs. Richard A. Bocci Mrs. Michael L. Mauzé Mrs. William S. Brandenburg Mrs. Michael O’Sullivan Mrs. Caroline Krawiec Brownstone Mrs. Mark A. Medearis Mrs. Rada Brooks Mrs. Jack Preston Mrs. Walter Carpeneti Mrs. James J. Messemer Mrs. David Byers Ms. Virginia Leung Price Mrs. Charles E. Clemens Mrs. Jane S. Mudge Mrs. Kathleen Coffino Ms. Kacie Renc Miss Robin Collins Ms. Vickie Nelson Ms. Rebecca Cooper Mrs. Patricia D. Roberts Ms. Christine Leong Connors Mrs. Robert L. Newman Mrs. Angelos J. Dassios Ms. René Rodman Mrs. Daniel P. Cronan Mrs. Peggy L. Newton BARBARA Ms. Melissa del Sol Ms. Stephanie B. Russell Ms. Gail De Martini Ms. Carole A. Obley Ms. Carole A. Demsky Ms. Meg Ruxton Mrs. Theodore S. Dobos Mrs. Edward Plant Ms. Christine DeSanze Mrs. James D. Seltsam, Jr. Mrs. David Dossetter Mrs. Nick Podell FRACCHIA Mrs. Samara Diapoulos Mrs. Ally Sievers Mrs. Happy Dumas Dame Tanya Marietta Powell Ms. Jane Gazzola Ms. V’Anne Singleton Dr. DiAnn Ellis Ms. Merrill Randol Mrs. Vincent Golde Mrs. Shelley Sorani Mrs. Douglas J. Engmann Mrs. Todd G. Regenold Ms. Shelley Gordon Ms. Grace Nicolson Sorg Mrs. Christian P. Erdman Ms. Katherine Robertson Mrs. Colin Greenspon Mrs. Christy Swartz Ms. Patricia Ferrin Ms. Lorrae Rominger Mrs. David Grove Ms. Holli Thier Ms. Dixie D. Furlong Ms. Dara C. Rosenfeld Ms. Lori Harmon Mrs. Andrea Valo-Espina Mrs. Alison Morr Gemperle Mrs. Jay Ryder Mrs. Joseph Harris, Jr. Ms. Amy Wender-Hoch Mrs. Stephen Ghiselli Ms. Isabel M. Sam-Vargas Mrs. Ronald R. Heckmann Ms. Freddi Wilkinson Ms. Nonie H. Greene Ms. Ellen Sandler Mrs. Christopher Hemphill Mrs. Eric Wold Mrs. John P. Grotts Mrs. Elaine Wong Shen Mrs. Holly Hollenbeck Ms. Patricia Wyrod Ms. Catherine D. Hargrave Ms. Karen L. Skidmore Ms. Kathryn A. Huber Miss Carla Wytmar Mrs. Michael R. Haswell Mrs. Susan Solinsky Ms. Marie Louise Hurabiell Mrs. Ronald Zaragoza Mrs. Terrence M. Hazlewood Mrs. Mathew Spolin Mrs. Michelle Gilman Jasen Ms. Mindy Henderson Mrs. Judy Swanson Mrs. Jonathan Kaufman Mrs. Helgi Tomasson Ms. Kelli Hill Ms. Jody K. Thelander Mrs. James C. Kelly Honorary Member Mrs. Michael F. Jackson Mrs. Charles V. Thornton Mrs. Trecia Knapp Ms. Daru H. Kawalkowski Ms. Elizabeth W. Vobach Mrs. Carolyn Koenig SUSTAINING MEMBERS Ms. Lisa A. Keith Mrs. Gregg von Thaden Ms. Claire Stewart Kostic Jola Anderson Mrs. William N. Keller Ms. Barbara Waldman Ms. Rochelle Lacey Mrs. Judy Anderson Mrs. Robert D. Kroll Mrs. Wallace Wertsch Ms. Betsy A. Linder Mrs. James P. Anthony Mrs. William D. Lamm Mrs. Aimee West Mrs. Carol Louie Mrs. Thomas G. Austin Ms. Jean Larette

ALLEGRO CIRCLE Allegro Circle is one of our newest organizations—a small and mighty group of donors who also volunteer their networks and their professional expertise to SF Ballet. For more: sfballet.org/allegrocircle

LEADERSHIP Stewart McDowell Brady and Paula Elmore Susan Marsch Patrice Lovato, Co-Chairs Isaac Hall Gregg Mattner

PROGRAMS 05 & 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 73 THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS CONTINUED ENCORE If you’re a young professional who loves dance and a great party, dust off the tux, get out that gown, and join our 300 plus ENCORE! members at a wide variety of social, educational, and networking events. For more, visit sfballet.org/encore

LEADERSHIP Christopher Correa, President Daniel Cassell, Treasurer Alex Christie Elizabeth Sgarrella Susan Lin, Vice President Emily Hu, Immediate Past President Vanessa Jn-Baptiste Jamie Taylor Angela Zhang, Secretary Jacqueline Barrett Kelcie Lee Gary Williams Maggie Winterfeldt Clark BRAVO Each year BRAVO members contribute a collective total of more than 10,000 hours of volunteer assistance to SF Ballet. In the process they get a personal close encounter with the inner workings of the world of SF Ballet. For more: sfballet.org/bravo

LEADERSHIP Patricia D. Knight, President Martha Debs Giovanna Jackson Steve Merlo, Vice President Joan Green Pirkko Lucchesi Paulette Cauthorn, Secretary Julie Hawkins Kathryn Roberts

We are pleased to recognize BRAVO members who contributed 40 hours or more during the 2016–2017 Season.

250+ HOURS Corine Assouline Roberta McMullan Maria Lawrence 40–54 HOURS Paulette Cauthorn Deric Patrick Cyndy Lee Lynn Barbaria Joan Green Twyla Powers Aldona Lidji Alexis Beckman James Gries Pauline Roothman Betsy Lim Julie Brown-Modenos Julie Hawkins Eileen Soden Steve Loving Tiffany Chin Giovanna Jackson Lacy Steffens Betsy McGuigan Linda Drake Patricia D. Knight Karen Weil Linda Miyagawa Inna Edwards Suzanne Knott Michael Williams Keiko Moore Roslyn Eng Pirkko Lucchesi Steve Wong Patricia Nelson Jonathan Gohstand Dosia Matthews Daphne Wray Gale Niess Bettina Graf Steve Merlo Jill Zerkle Deborrah Ortego Lydie Hammack Kathryn Roberts Johanna Payne Michae Hart 55–99 HOURS Sue Plasai Carolyn Hutchinson 100–249 HOURS Edie Bazjanac Sara Pope Susan Kalian UNION BANK Margaret Anderson Jenya Bordas Mercedes Rodriguez Sanae Kelly Jenny Au-Yeung Mary Davi Herm Sinoy Priscilla Law Carolyn Balsley Doris Duncan Tracy Stoehr Barbara Lim Marilyn Breen Vicente Garcia Brad Stokes Anne Snowball Thomas Brown Keiko Golden Sherrie Szalay Erika Stuart Martha Debs Piers Greenhill Leslie Tsirkas Audrey Tse Treanor Philip Fukuda Kiyoshi Kimura Lizzy Woodham Steve Trenam Roger Green Robin Kinoshita May Yasui Desmond Torkornoo Susanne Johnson Kenneth Kitch Mary Yee Susan Warble Kathy Judd Carrie Kost Stas Yukevich Elmira Lagundi Christine Lasher John Mazurski David Lau SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER War Memorial Opera House is owned and operated by the city and county of San Francisco through the board of trustees of the War Memorial, The Honorable Mark Farrell, Mayor.

TRUSTEES NANCY H. BECHTLE, President VAUGHN R. WALKER, Vice President

Belva Davis Paul F. Pelosi Thomas E. Horn Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Lt. Col. Wallace I. Levin CSMR (Ret.) Diane B. Wilsey Gorretti Lo Lui Mrs. George R. Moscone ELIZABETH MURRAY, Managing Director Major General J. Michael Myatt, USMC (Ret.) JENNIFER E. NORRIS, Assistant Managing Director/Executive Secretary

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