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Ballet Notes Ballet Notes Watch her & A Month in the Country February 26 – March 2, 2014 Julie Kent and Guillaume Côté in A Month in the Country. Photo by Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy of American Ballet Theater. Orchestra Violin 1 Clarinets Wednesday, February 26 at 7:30 pm Aaron Schwebel, Max Christie, Principal Thursday, February 27 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm Guest Concertmaster Gary Kidd, Bass Clarinet Friday, February 28 at 7:30 pm Lynn Kuo, Colleen Cook+ Assistant Emily Marlow* Saturday, March 1 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm Concertmaster Bassoons Sunday, March 2 at 2:00 pm James Aylesworth Stephen Mosher, Principal Jennie Baccante Jerry Robinson Conductor: David Briskin, Music Director and Principal Conductor Sheldon Grabke Elizabeth Gowen, Celia Franca, C.C., Founder Nancy Kershaw Contra-Bassoon George Crum, Music Director Emeritus Sonia Klimasko-Leheniuk Yakov Lerner Horns Karen Kain, C.C. Kevin Garland Jayne Maddison Gary Pattison, Principal Watch her Artistic Director Executive Director Wendy Rogers Vincent Barbee* David Briskin Rex Harrington, O.C. Paul Zevenhuizen* Derek Conrod Music Director and Artist-in-Residence Diane Doig+ Choreography/Direction*: Aszure Barton Violin 2 Principal Conductor Christine Passmore+ Dominique Laplante, Music: Lera Auerbach, Dialogues on Stabat Mater (after Giovanni Battista Pergolesi) Scott Wevers Magdalena Popa Lindsay Fischer Principal Second Violin Principal Artistic Coach Artistic Director, By arrangement with G. Schirmer Inc., publisher and copyright owner. Csaba Koczó, Acting Trumpets YOU dance / Ballet Master Assistant Principal Richard Sandals, Principal Soloists: Aaron Schwebel, violin; Angela Rudden, viola; and Tim Francom, marimba Peter Ottmann Mandy-Jayne Anne Armstrong+ Mark Dharmaratnam Set and Costume Design: Yannik Larivée Senior Ballet Master Richardson Xiao Grabke Robert Weymouth* Senior Ballet Mistress Lighting Design: Christopher Dennis Ron Mah Trombones Aleksandar Antonijevic, Guillaume Côté, Aya Miyagawa Répétiteurs: Peter Ottmann and Rex Harrington + David Archer, Principal Matthew Golding , Greta Hodgkinson, Evan McKie*, Filip Tomov Robert Ferguson World Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, November 25, 2009 Svetlana Lunkina*, Heather Ogden, Sonia Rodriguez, Joanna Zabrowarna Piotr Stanczyk, Jillian Vanstone, Xiao Nan Yu David Pell, Bass Trombone Watch her is generously supported by Walter Carsen, O.C. Kevin D. Bowles, Lorna Geddes, Violas Tuba Alejandra Perez-Gomez, Rebekah Rimsay, Angela Rudden, Principal Sasha Johnson, Principal Tomas Schramek, Hazaros Surmeyan Josh Greenlaw, * created in collaboration with the Artists of Ballet Harp Naoya Ebe, Keiichi Hirano, Tanya Howard, Assistant Principal Stephanie Hutchison, Etienne Lavigne, Valerie Kuinka Lucie Parent, Principal Patrick Lavoie, Elena Lobsanova, McGee Maddox, Johann Lotter Tympani Stacey Shiori Minagawa, Tina Pereira, Beverley Spotton Michael Perry, Principal Jonathan Renna, Robert Stephen Larry Toman Skylar Campbell, Jordana Daumec, Percussion Alexandra MacDonald, Chelsy Meiss, Cellos Tim Francom, Principal Tiffany Mosher, Jenna Savella, Brendan Saye, Maurizio Baccante, Kristofer Maddigan Christopher Stalzer, Dylan Tedaldi Principal Mark Mazur James Applewhite, Jack Bertinshaw, Trygve Cumpston, Marianne Pack, Shaila D’Onofrio, Krista Dowson, Nadine Drouin, Jackson Dwyer, Olga Laktionova* Orchestra Personnel Hannah Fischer, Francesco Gabriele Frola, Giorgio Galli, Andrew McIntosh Manager and Music Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, Emma Hawes, Juri Hiraoka, Administrator Ji Min Hong, Kathryn Hosier, Rui Huang, Harrison James, Elaine Thompson Lise-Marie Jourdain, Larissa Khotchenkova, Miyoko Koyasu, Jill Vitols+ Raymond Tizzard James Leja, Elizabeth Marrable, Shino Mori, Jaclyn Oakley, Paul Widner Andreea Olteanu, Asiel Rivero, Joseph Steinauer, Nan Wang, Librarian Aarik Wells, Sarah Elena Wolff Basses Lucie Parent RBC Apprentice Programme / YOU dance: Hans J.F. Preuss, Principal Assistant to the Music Rhiannon Fairless, Liana Macera, Elenora Morris, Felix Paquet, Tom Hazlitt Director Meghan Pugh, Ben Rudisin, Kota Sato. Martin ten Kortenaar, Paul Langley* Jonathan Renna with Artists of the Ballet. Mimi Tompkins, Ethan Watts Jean Verch Robert Speer Photo by Nancy Paiva. Robert Binet Lorna Geddes Cary Takagaki * On Leave of Absence Guillaume Côté Pointe Shoe Manager / + Choeographic Associates Assistant Ballet Mistress Flutes Additional Musician Leslie J. Allt, Principal Ernest Abugov Joysanne Sidimus Maria Pelletier Sonia Rodriguez and Jeff Morris Guest Balanchine Jonathan Renna in Watch her. Stage Managers Répétiteur Shelley Brown*, Piccolo Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Peter Sherk Oboes Stage Manager, YOU dance Mark Rogers, Principal Karen Rotenberg * Principal Guest Artist Lesley Young, English Horn +Guest Artist Maternity leave Page 2 national.ballet.ca Page 3 Sonia Rodriguez A Month in the Country A Ballet in One Act Xiao Nan Yu (Feb 26, 27 eve, Mar 1 eve) Freely Adapted from Ivan Turgenev’s Play Svetlana Lunkina+ (Feb 27 mat, Feb 28, Mar 1 mat, 2) Choreography: Frederick Ashton Jenna Savella Staged by: Anthony Dowell Assisted by: Grant Coyle Jack Bertinshaw, Kevin D. Bowles, Trygve Cumpston, Jordana Daumec, Krista Dowson or Music: Frédéric Chopin, orchestration by John Lanchbery Sarah Elena Wolff, Naoya Ebe, Giorgio Galli or Jackson Dwyer, Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, By arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, agents for Keiichi Hirano, Tanya Howard, Stephanie Hutchison, Harrison James, Patrick Lavoie or Bureau de Musique Mario Bois, Paris, publisher and copyright owner. Etienne Lavigne, James Leja, Elena Lobsanova, Alexandra MacDonald, McGee Maddox, Solo Pianist: Andrei Streliaev Chelsy Meiss, Stacey Shiori Minagawa, Shino Mori, Tiffany Mosher, Andreea Olteanu, Tina Pereira, Jonathan Renna, Rebekah Rimsay or Rui Huang, Christopher Stalzer, Set and Costume Design: Julia Trevelyan Oman Robert Stephen, Dylan Tedaldi, Jillian Vanstone, Nan Wang, Aarik Wells Lighting Design: John B. Read Répétiteurs: Magdalena Popa, Peter Ottmann and Aleksandar Antonijevic + Principal Guest Artist World Premiere: The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London, England, February 12, 1976 The National Ballet of Canada Premiere: Toronto, May 3, 1995 A Month in the Country has been totally underwritten by Sandra Pitblado and Jim Pitblado, C.M. A Note on Watch her Anthony Dowell’s guest coaching is made possible by a generous donation from The Frank Gerstein Charitable Foundation Edmonton-born Aszure Barton’s delicately during the creative process. I am interested layered but vigorously imagined Watch her in bodies that move with clean efficiency and Julie Kent and Guillaume Côté in dazzled audiences when it premiered with an awareness of and responsiveness to their A Month in the Country. The National Ballet of Canada in 2009. Set to environments,” says Barton. Photo by Rosalie O’Connor, Lera Auerbach’s Dialogues on Stabat Mater, Barton’s work has been commissioned courtesy of American Ballet Theater. after Pergolesi, is a mesmerizing evocation of by Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Bolshoi Ballet, a spiritual state achieved through the physical American Ballet Theater, Houston Ballet, vocabulary of dance. Watch her is the work Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey of a formidable dance artist at her most Dance Theater and Nederlands Dans Theater compelling. and has drawn praise and superlatives from “My choreography draws on a wide range all quarters. of movement sources from classical ballet and contemporary dance to movements that surface Intermission Artists of the Ballet in Watch her. Photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic. Page 4 national.ballet.ca Page 5 Synopsis Natalia Petrovna Rakitin, Natalia’s admirer A Month in the Country is set in the 1850s enters the room and in an impetuous fit of Greta Hodgkinson (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Patrick Lavoie (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Mar 1 eve) at the country house of Yslaev and his wife jealously, slaps Vera who runs from the room. Mar 1 eve) Jonathan Renna (Feb 27 eve, Mar 1 mat, 2) Natalia. The family circle includes Natalia’s Moved by Natalia’s boldness, Beliaev Xiao Nan Yu (Feb 27 eve, Mar 1 mat, 2) young son Kolia, her teenaged ward Vera declares his affections for Natalia who Katia, a maid Yslaev, her husband Tanya Howard (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Mar 1 eve) and Rakitin, an ardent admirer and confidant surrenders herself to him. Vera returns to Hazaros Surmeyan (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Alexandra MacDonald (Feb 27 eve, of Natalia. see them embrace and in childish hysteria Mar 1 eve) Mar 1 mat, 2) Beliaev, a young attractive student is informs the family of Natalia’s betrayal. Tomas Schramek (Feb 27 eve, Mar 1 mat, 2) engaged as a tutor for Kolia and inadvertently Though Natalia denies Vera’s accusations, Matvei, a footman disrupts the emotional stability of the house- Rakitin wisely insists that he and the tutor Kolia, their son Giorgio Galli (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Mar 1 eve) Skylar Campbell (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Jack Bertinshaw (Feb 27 eve, Mar 1 mat, 2) hold. The naive Vera develops a crush on must both leave in order to restore a Mar 1 eve) Beliaev, who does not take her seriously. semblance of calm to the family’s life. Francesco Gabriele Frola (Feb 27 eve, Beliaev, Kolia’s tutor As she tries to confess her love to him Natalia Mar 1 mat, 2) Guillaume Côté (Feb 26, 27 eve, 28, Mar 1 mat, 2) Vera, Natalia’s ward Aleksandar Antonijevic (Feb 27 mat, Running Time Jillian Vanstone (Feb 26, 27 mat, 28, Mar 1 eve) Watch her 39 minutes Mar 1 eve) Intermission 25 minutes Elena Lobsanova (Feb 27 eve, Mar 1 mat, 2) A Month in the Country
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