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All Rights Reserved. cnb.com 7275.26 March 2019 PROGRAM 05 | LYRIC VOICES / Volume 96, No. 6 PROGRAM 06 | SPACE BETWEEN The people you trust, TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 5 Greetings from the Artistic Director Paul Heppner & Principal Choreographer trust City National. President 0 6 Board of Trustees Mike Hathaway Endowment Foundation Board Top Ranked in Client Referrals* Senior Vice President 0 7 SF Ballet Leadership Kajsa Puckett Vice President, Sales & Marketing 0 8 For Your Information 05 Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager 0 9 Timeline Production 1 0 Season News Susan Peterson Vice President, Production 1 1 SF Ballet Student Matinees Jennifer Sugden 1 2 Explore Ballet Assistant Production Manager 1 6 Artists of the Company Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers 2 4 PROGRAM 05 Lyric Voices Sales Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed Bound To San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives “City National helps keep “... two united in a single soul ...” Devin Bannon, Brieanna Hansen, World Premiere Amelia Heppner, Ann Manning my financial life in tune.” Seattle Area Account Executives 3 2 PROGRAM 06 Space Between Carol Yip EMG Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes Michael Tilson Thomas Sales Coordinator FP 3 Die Toteninsel World Premiere Conductor, Educator and Composer MarketingMASTHEAD Björk Ballet Shaun Swick Senior Designer & Digital Lead 4 0 SF Ballet Orchestra Ciara Caya 4 2 SF Ballet Staff Marketing Coordinator 4 4 Donor Events and News 24 Encore Media Group 425 North 85th Street 4 8 SF Ballet Donors Seattle, WA 98103 6 2 Thank You to Our Volunteers p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 6 4 Last Words on “... two united in a single soul ...” Find your way up.SM Visit cnb.com [email protected] www.encoremediagroup.com FOLLOW US BEFORE AND AFTER THE PERFORMANCE! Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events facebook.com/sfballet twitter.com/sfballet in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without youtube.com/sfballet instagram.com/sfballet written permission is prohibited. San Francisco Ballet | Program Book | Vol. 26, No. 5 2019 Repertory Season All editorial material © San Francisco Ballet, 2019 Chris Hellman Center for Dance 455 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 415 861 5600 | sfballet.org Cover: Dores André in Pita's Björk Ballet // © Erik Tomasson Above, top to bottom: Helgi Tomasson; *Based on interviews conducted by Greenwich Associates in 2017 with more than 30,000 executives at businesses across the country with sales of $1 million to $500 million. Yuan Yuan Tan and Carlo Di Lanno in Bound To© City National Bank results are compared to leading competitors on the following question: How likely are you to recommend (bank) to a friend or colleague? by Christopher Wheeldon // Both © Erik Tomasson City National Bank Member FDIC. City National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. Bound To© by Christopher Wheeldon ©2018 City National Bank. All Rights Reserved. cnb.com 7275.26 PROGRAMS 05 / 06 | SFBALLET.ORG | 3 ©2019 California©2019 Closet Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Franchises independently owned and operated. Custom solutions for better living 800.274.6754 californiaclosets.com Untitled-2 1 2/21/19 3:13 PM GREETINGS FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER Welcome to the Opera House for the fourth and fifth programs of our 2019 Season, Lyric Voices and Space Between. These programs mark a shift from the opulent tutus and classical virtuosity of our recent performances of The Sleeping Beauty. Beloved story ballets are an important part of our heritage, and we take great pride in dancing them well. At the same time, I believe it’s essential to keep the art of ballet vibrant and relevant with new works. Which is why I’m so pleased you’ve joined us for these two programs of six ballets—all of which have been created in the last four years. Program 05, Lyric Voices, is made up of three works created for San Francisco Ballet over the last two years: Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem and Bound To were both made for our 2018 Unbound festival and “… two united in a single soul …” is brand new. As the program title suggests, all three ballets are set to music with vocal accompaniment. And yet, from this similar starting point, three choreographers have created three quite distinct ballets. Trey McIntyre, whose Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem is set to music by singer- songwriter Chris Garneau, came to us thinking about a photograph. It was an image of his very tall grandfather as a young athlete, and Trey, who is 6'6", was wondering how much else they had in common. The resulting ballet is playful, quirky, and deeply heartfelt. FP 4 When Christopher Wheeldon came to San Francisco to create Bound To, he was thinking about how attached we are to our phones. His ballet is an exploration of what happens when we do (and don’t) put the phone down and connect with another person. SF Ballet’s Choreographer in Residence Yuri Possokhov has created a work that’s centered around the myth of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own reflection. It’s a particularly interesting subject for ballet dancers, who spend a good part of each day critiquing and evaluating their own reflection. Yuri’s work is always thought-provoking and I’m looking forward to seeing his latest creation on the stage. ©2019 California©2019 Closet Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Franchises independently owned and operated. Program 06, Space Between, features work by three choreographers who are working all over the world—in ballet, on Broadway, and on film. And each of the artists on this program leads the art form in a slightly different direction. Justin Peck’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes is an athletic, kinetic take on Aaron Copeland’s iconic score. His ballet, created for New York City Ballet in 2015, features 15 men and 1 woman, and highlights both the competitiveness and the tenderness in male relationships in a way not often seen onstage. Liam Scarlett, whose Frankenstein we performed last season and whose Hummingbird we are taking to London later this spring, created a brand-new work, Die Toteninsel (set to Rachmaninoff’s score of the same name, or Isle of the Dead, in English). It’s a thoughtful piece about death that’s more evocative than definitive, with Scarlett’s expressive movement creating an otherworldly, haunting mood. The final work on this program was created by the inimitable Arthur Pita, and set to the music of a fellow Icelander, Björk. This joyous, bold work makes you realize how refreshingly vibrant and unconventional ballet can be. Thank you for joining us for these two dynamic programs. Our Season continues with John Neumeier’s deep dive into the emotional undercurrents of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid, followed by Alexei Ratmansky’s look at the life of a legendary composer in Shostakovich Trilogy. I hope to see you again this spring in the Opera House. Custom solutions for better living Sincerely, Helgi Tomasson Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer 800.274.6754 californiaclosets.com PROGRAMS 05 / 06 | 415 865 2000 | 5 Untitled-2 1 2/21/19 3:13 PM SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES | 2018–19 Carl F. Pascarella, Chair of the Board and Executive Committee John S. Osterweis†, Immediate Past Chair Lisa Daniels Robert G. Shaw Pamela J. Joyner† Margaret G. Gill, Vice Chair Susan P. Diekman Christine E. Sherry David A. Kaplan James H. Herbert, II†, Vice Chair Sonia H. Evers Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Mary Jo Kovacevich Lucy Jewett, Vice Chair Shelby M. Gans Catherine Slavonia James J. Ludwig† James D. Marver, Vice Chair Joseph C. Geagea David Hooker Spencer Stephanie Marver Diane B. Wilsey, Vice Chair Richard Gibbs, M.D. Fran A. Streets Nancy H. Mohr Nancy Kukacka, Treasurer Beth Grossman Judy C. Swanson Marie-Louise Pratt Jennifer J. McCall, Secretary Matthew T. Hobart Richard J. Thalheimer George R. Roberts Susan S. Briggs, Assistant Secretary Patrick M. Hogan Miles Archer Woodlief Kathleen Scutchfield Thomas E. Horn Timothy C. Wu Robert M. Smelick Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director Hiro Iwanaga Zhenya Yoder Susan A. Van Wagner & Principal Choreographer Thomas M. Jackson, M.D. Janice Hansen Zakin Dennis Wu Glenn McCoy*, Executive Director Elaine Kartalis Akiko Yamazaki James C. Katzman Yasunobu Kyogoku Kelsey Lamond TRUSTEES EMERITI Jola Anderson Brenda Leff Michael C. Abramson ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES Kristen A. Avansino Marie O’Gara Lipman Thomas W. Allen Ann Kathryn Baer, President, Richard C. Barker† Alison Mauzé Marjorie Burnett San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary President Karen S. Bergman Marissa Mayer Charles Dishman Steve Merlo, , BRAVO President Gary Bridge John T.