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2019/20 SEASON SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO MERCURIC TIDINGS MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 1 2019-09-30 4:00 PM MIAMI CITY BALLET ROMANCE AND MAGIC THIS WINTER GEORGE BALANCHINE’S THE NUTCRACKER® Dec 13 – 29 Be transported to a dazzling winter wonderland and enjoy this magical holiday tradition with your friends and family. I’M OLD FASHIONED Robbins/Gould Jan 10 – Jan 26 This glamorous tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood features Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth on a huge screen, gliding alongside Miami City Ballet dancers. MIAMI | FT. LAUDERDALE | WEST PALM BEACH TICKETS ON SALE NOW FROM JUST $30 miamicityballet.org · 305.929.7010 Ashley Knox and Renan Cerdeiro in I'm Old Fashioned. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. Photo by Karolina Kuras. Miami City Ballet dancers in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker®. Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev. 2 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 2 2019-09-30 3:59 PM 2019/20 SEASON Dear MCB Family and Friends, WELCOME | BIENVENIDO Welcome to Miami tradition by re-imagining Aaron Copland’s City Ballet’s 34th score in gender-bending ways. While Agnes season. de Mille had choreographed her Rodeo This year, we offer in 1942 for a ballerina in cowboy boots, diverse repertoire Peck’s 2015 ballet shifts the spotlight to 15 highlighting powerful yet lyrical men. classical ballet’s far- reaching impact. Closing the season, Don Quixote takes Often defying the what is considered the fi rst modern novel imagination, it pays to new artistic levels in MCB’s full-length homage and builds ballet, offering the full range of character on multiple art development found in Cervantes’ literary forms, giving them masterpiece. new depth and resonance. Through the work we do, every year we engage, inspire, and transform hundreds In the program you are about to see, of thousands of individuals and ignite their Balanchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue passion for all the things that ballet can is the fi rst full-scale ballet in a Broadway be. This passion is exemplifi ed by our 53 musical, with all the suspense and dancers, 1,200 students, 13,000 donors, showmanship of Rodgers and Hart’s 1936 hit and over 125,000 audience members each On Your Toes. In January, you will discover year. Passion and imagination has sustained how Jerome Robbins’ found inspiration Miami City Ballet for 33 years. Now, as from Hollywood icons Fred Astaire and Rita we begin our 34th season poised for a Hayworth by layering fi lm sequences from signifi cant leap in our evolution, we invite the movie You Were Never Lovelier into his you to be part of the magic. resplendent I’m Old Fashioned. On that same program, Christopher Wheeldon’s So join us for every program this season This Bitter Earth is a haunting pas de deux. as we explore how classical ballet is never Set to Dinah Washington’s soulful 1960s simply what you might imagine. Instead, it’s performance of 1950s songs by Clyde always so much more. Otis and Max Richter, this piece conveys emotions grounded in modern dance and Warm regards, the blues. Lourdes Lopez, Artistic Director In the spring, two MCB premieres offer Tania Castroverde Moskalenko, perspectives on the past and future of Executive Director ballet. With Firebird, Balanchine drew on a Russian fairytale to create the 1949 ballet that catapulted New York City Ballet into international fame while showcasing scenery and costumes by painter Marc Chagall. Justin Peck’s Rodeo then departs from Lourdes Lopez Tania Castroverde Moskalenko Artistic Director Executive Director Miami City Ballet dancers. Photo © Karolina Kuras. Location Courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club. This Page: Photos © Alberto Oviedo, Nick Garcia For Miami Modern Luxury. 3 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 3 2019-09-30 3:59 PM MIAMI CITY BALLET 4 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 4 2019-09-30 3:59 PM 2019/20 SEASON THE COMPANY SOLOISTS Samantha Hope Galler – Ashley Knox ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jordan-Elizabeth Long – Kathryn Morgan Lourdes Lopez _ _ CORPS DE BALLET EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Alaina Andersen – Itzkan Barbosa – Eric Beckham Tania Castroverde Moskalenko Bianca Bulle – Adrienne Carter – Cameron Catazaro Julia Cinquemani – Bradley Dunlap _ Mayumi Enokibara – Samivel Evans – Nina Fernandes MUSIC DIRECTOR Maddie Goodman – Julian Goodwin-Ferris AND PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR Ellen Grocki – Anna Grunewald – Satoki Habuchi Gary Sheldon Aaron Hilton – Benjamin Lepson – Suzette Logue Petra Love – Alex Manning – Madison McDonough _ Harrison Monaco – Gustavo Ribeiro – Ariel Rose Helen Ruiz – Alyssa Schroeder – Christie Sciturro PRINCIPAL BALLET MASTER Luiz Silva – Christina Spigner – Nicole Stalker Roma Sosenko Ella Titus – Eric Trope – Ao Wang – Amir Yogev _ Damian Zamorano BALLET MASTERS _ Joan Latham – Arnold Quintane FOUNDER Toby Lerner Ansin _ _ COMPANY PIANISTS John Camacho – Francisco Rennó FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Edward Villella _ PRINCIPALS Tricia Albertson – Katia Carranza Renan Cerdeiro – Rainer Krenstetter “Miami City Ballet, Jennifer Lauren – Alexander Peters a JUBILANT and Carlos Quenedit – Kleber Rebello ENDEARING _ company, refreshes the eyes and spirit.” PRINCIPAL SOLOISTS Nathalia Arja – Emily Bromberg New York Times Lauren Fadeley – Shimon Ito Chase Swatosh 5 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 5 2019-09-30 3:59 PM MIAMI CITY BALLET THE COMPANY DANCERS _ PRINCIPALS TRICIA ALBERTSON KATIA CARRANZA Santa Cruz, CA Monterrey, Mexico Joined MCB as a member Danced with Ballet of the Corps in 1997. de Monterrey. Promoted to Principal Joined MCB as a member in 2006. of the Corps in 1998. Promoted to Principal in 2004. Rejoined MCB in 2017. ALEXANDER PETERS CARLOS QUENEDIT State College, PA Havana, Cuba Danced with Kansas City Ballet Danced with San Francisco and Pennsylvania Ballet. Ballet, Ballet de Monterrey and National Ballet of Cuba. Joined MCB as a Principal Soloist in 2017. Joined MCB as a Principal in 2019. Promoted to Principal in 2019. 6 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 6 2019-09-30 3:59 PM 2019/20 SEASON RENAN CERDEIRO RAINER KRENSTETTER JENNIFER LAUREN Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vienna, Austria Tuscaloosa, AL Joined MCB as a School Danced with Vienna Danced with Alabama Ballet. Apprentice in 2009. State Opera Ballet and Staatsballett Berlin. Joined MCB as a member of Promoted to Principal the Corps in 2007. in 2013.* Joined MCB as a Principal in 2014. Promoted to Principal in 2017. KLEBER REBELLO Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Joined MCB as a Company Apprentice in 2010. Promoted to Principal in 2013.* * Miami City Ballet School Alumni +Toby Lerner Ansin Scholarship Award Recipient 7 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 7 2019-09-30 3:59 PM MIAMI CITY BALLET THE COMPANY DANCERS _ PRINCIPAL SOLOISTS NATHALIA ARJA EMILY BROMBERG Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Boston, MA Joined MCB as a Danced with Festival School Apprentice Ballet Providence, in 2009. Colorado Ballet and Ballet San Jose. Promoted to Principal Soloist in 2016.* Joined MCB as a member of the Corps in 2010. Promoted to Principal Soloist in 2019 LAUREN FADELEY SHIMON ITO CHASE SWATOSH Orlando, FL New York, NY Westlake Village, CA Danced with New Danced with Ballet Joined MCB as a York City Ballet and San Jose. Company Apprentice Pennsylvania Ballet. in 2010. Joined MCB as Corps Joined MCB as de Ballet in 2011. Promoted to Principal a Soloist in 2016. Soloist in 2019. Promoted to Principal Promoted to Soloist in 2019. Principal Soloist in 2017. 8 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 8 2019-09-30 3:59 PM 2019/20 SEASON _ SOLOISTS SAMANTHA HOPE ASHLEY KNOX GALLER Shelby Township, MI Bedford, MA Joined MCB as a Danced with Boston Company Apprentice Ballet, Cincinnati in 2002. Ballet and Alabama Ballet. Promoted to Soloist in 2017.* Joined MCB as Corps de Ballet in 2014. Promoted to Soloist in 2018. JORDAN-ELIZABETH KATHRYN MORGAN LONG Mobile, AL Blacksburg, VA Danced with New York Danced with Dutch City Ballet. National Ballet and Royal Swedish Ballet. Joined MCB as a Soloist in 2019. Joined MCB as a Soloist in 2014. * Miami City Ballet School Alumni +Toby Lerner Ansin Scholarship Award Recipient 9 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 9 2019-09-30 3:59 PM MIAMI CITY BALLET THE COMPANY DANCERS _ CORPS DE BALLET ALAINA ITZKAN ERIC BECKHAM BIANCA BULLE ADRIENNE ANDERSEN BARBOSA Columbia, SC Queensland, CARTER Milwaukee, WI New York, NY Australia Kennesaw, GA Danced with Joined MCB Joined MCB The National Danced with Joined MCB as an Apprentice as Corps de Ballet of Canada. The Los Angeles as a Company Ballet. in 2014. Ballet in 2019.* Joined MCB Apprentice in 2010. Promoted to as Corps de Joined MCB Corps de Ballet Ballet in 2017. as Corps de Promoted to in 2016.*+ Ballet in 2019. Corps de Ballet in 2011.* NINA MADDIE JULIAN ELLEN GROCKI ANNA FERNANDES GOODMAN GOODWIN- Damascus, MD GRUNEWALD Rio de Janerio, New Bern, NC Pittsburgh, PA FERRIS Joined MCB Brazil Houston, TX as an Apprentice Danced with Joined MCB in 2013. Ballet Arizona. Danced with as Corps de Joined MCB Houston Ballet. Ballet in 2019. as Corps de Promoted to Joined MCB Ballet in 2019. Joined MCB Corps de Ballet as Corps de as Corps de in 2014.*+ Ballet in 2019. Ballet in 2018. 10 MCB15002-Program-Book_vFA.indd 10 2019-09-30 3:59 PM 2019/20 SEASON CAMERON JULIA BRADLEY MAYUMI SAMIVEL EVANS CATAZARO CINQUEMANI DUNLAP ENOKIBARA Santa Fe, NM Canton, OH Dallas, TX Cleveland, OH Rio de Janerio, Brazil Danced with Joined MCB Danced with Joined MCB Boston Ballet. as Corps de The Los Angeles as a School Joined MCB Ballet in 2019.* as an Apprentice Joined MCB Ballet. Apprentice in as Corps de 2005. in 2013. Joined MCB Ballet in 2019. as Corps de Promoted to Promoted to Ballet in 2017. Corps de Ballet Corps de Ballet in 2008.* in 2015.*+ Company Representative SATOKI AARON HILTON BENJAMIN SUZETTE LOGUE PETRA LOVE HABUCHI Washington, D.C.