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SF Ballet Sleeping Beauty 2019 2019 SEASON | PROGRAM 04 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY The people you trust, trust City National. Top Ranked in Client Referrals* “City National helps keep my financial life in tune.” Michael Tilson Thomas Conductor, Educator and Composer Find your way up.SM Visit cnb.com *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. 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? City National Bank Member FDIC. City National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. ©2018 City National Bank. All Rights Reserved. cnb.com 7275.26 March 2019 PROGRAM 04 | THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Volume 96, No. 5 The people you trust, TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 3 Greetings from the Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Paul Heppner 0 5 Board of Trustees trust City National. President Endowment Foundation Board Mike Hathaway Top Ranked in Client Referrals* Senior Vice President 0 6 SF Ballet Leadership Kajsa Puckett 0 8 For Your Information Vice President, Sales & Marketing 0 9 Timeline: SF Ballet & Story Ballets Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager 1 0 SF Ballet News 03 Production 1 1 Inside SF Ballet School Susan Peterson Vice President, Production 1 2 Explore Ballet Jennifer Sugden 1 6 Artists of the Company Assistant Production Manager 2 4 PROGRAM 04 The Sleeping Beauty Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers 3 2 SF Ballet Orchestra Sales 3 4 SF Ballet Staff Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed “City National helps keep San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 3 6 Donor Events and News Devin Bannon, Brieanna Hansen, Amelia Heppner, Ann Manning 4 2 SF Ballet Donors Seattle Area Account Executives my financial life in tune.” 6 2 Thank You to Our Volunteers Carol Yip EMG Michael Tilson Thomas 6 4 Last Words on The Sleeping Beauty FP 1 Sales Coordinator Conductor, Educator and Composer MarketingMASTHEAD Shaun Swick Senior Designer & Digital Lead Ciara Caya Marketing Coordinator Encore Media Group 24 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 SM [email protected] Find your way up. Visit cnb.com FOLLOW US BEFORE AND AFTER THE PERFORMANCE! www.encoremediagroup.com Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly facebook.com/sfballet twitter.com/sfballet by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights youtube.com/sfballet instagram.com/sfballet reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without 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: Sasha De Sola and Carlo Di Lanno in Tomasson’s The Sleeping Beauty // © Erik 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. Above, top to bottom: Helgi Tomasson; 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? WanTing Zhao in Tomasson's The Sleeping Beauty // Both © Erik Tomasson City National Bank Member FDIC. City National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. ©2018 City National Bank. All Rights Reserved. cnb.com 7275.26 PROGRAM 04 | SFBALLET.ORG | 1 Adriana Trenev represents extraordinary people in the sale and purchase of luxury homes. Call today if you’re thinking of buying or selling a home. Adriana Trenev Realtor® 650.383.5697 DRE 01893246 [email protected] luxurycurated.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01527235. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate. GREETINGS FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER Thank you for joining us at the Opera House for The Sleeping Beauty. One of the pillars of the classical ballet tradition, The Sleeping Beauty is also a beloved story of a cursed princess, good and bad fairies, and the triumph of true love’s kiss. I staged San Francisco Ballet’s first full-length production of The Sleeping Beauty in 1990. It was one hundred years after the original, choreographed by Marius Petipa, premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg with Tchaikovsky’s score. There’s a reason this ballet is an enduring favorite: it has drama and spectacle and also pure classical ballet technique: precise, specific, regal. I kept much of Petipa’s exquisite choreography and added a few elements as well. Performing The Sleeping Beauty requires a shift from our dancers, from the freer movement of contemporary ballet. Just as orchestras return to the classical canon for inspiration and to strengthen their skills, this is an important return to the source for us. Truly mastering the deceptively difficult classical technique translates into doing FP 2 everything else well. Although it’s one of the most challenging ballets to perform, our dancers make it look wonderful. I look forward to seeing how our dancers will embody the many different roles in The Sleeping Beauty. I appreciate you coming to San Francisco Ballet. Your support enables us to perform the classics and to take artistic risks—like commissioning new work—that keep the art form vibrant. Our 2019 Season continues through May with world premieres by Yuri Possokhov and Liam Scarlett; Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy, John Neumeier’s beautiful, haunting version of The Little Mermaid; and much more. I hope you’ll join us once again this spring as we explore the full range of what ballet can be. Sincerely, Helgi Tomasson Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer PROGRAM 04 | 415 865 2000 | 3 Monet_Encore full page FINAL.indd 1 2/1/19 1:18 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. Palmer Garrettson Dulin, Jr.† Daniel Cassell, , ENCORE! Chaomei Chen Fritz Quattlebaum Millicent Dunham FP 3 Hannah Comolli Stewart McDowell Brady, Kara Roell J. Stuart Francis† Patrice Lovato, Christine Leong Connors Sally Hambrecht Christine Russell Co-Chairs, Allegro Circle David C. Cox Randee Seiger Ingrid von Mangoldt Hills SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS | 2018–19 James D. Marver, President John S. Osterweis, President Emeritus J. Stuart Francis, Vice President Thomas E. Horn, Treasurer Richard C. Barker Hilary C. Pierce Kevin Mohr‡, Chief Financial Officer Susan S. Briggs Larissa K. Roesch Elizabeth Lani‡, Assistant Secretary Nancy Kukacka †Past Chair *Non-Trustee ‡Non-Director PROGRAM 04 | SFBALLET.ORG | 5 Monet_Encore full page FINAL.indd 1 2/1/19 1:18 PM SAN FRANCISCO BALLET LEADERSHIP HELGI TOMASSON GLENN MCCOY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER Helgi Tomasson, one of the supreme SF Ballet pays tribute to Glenn McCoy classical dancers of his generation, this season, which is his 31st and final has led San Francisco Ballet for 34 years season with San Francisco Ballet and is the longest-serving sole artistic before retirement. After working director of a major ballet company. Born for San Francisco Opera and the in Iceland, he danced with Harkness Metropolitan Opera, McCoy joined Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, and New York San Francisco Ballet in 1987. He served City Ballet, where he distinguished himself as a dancer of technical as company manager and general manager before being appointed purity, musicality, and intelligence. Tomasson assumed leadership of executive director in April 2002. McCoy has overseen the production SF Ballet in 1985. Under his direction, SF Ballet has developed into a of more than 130 new repertory and full-length ballets and more than Company widely recognized as one of the finest in the world. Tomasson 50 domestic and international tours, including engagements in Paris, has balanced devotion to the classics with an emphasis on new work, London, New York, Beijing, and Washington, DC.
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