2019 SEASON | PROGRAM 01 DON QUIXOTE 2019 SEASON JAN 25—MAY 12 01 DON QUIXOTE JAN 25 – FEB 03 02 KALEIDOSCOPE FEB 12 – FEB 23 Divertimento No. 15 Appassionata Anima Animus 03 IN SPACE & TIME FEB 14 – FEB 24 The Fifth Season Snowblind Études 04 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY MAR 09 – MAR 17 05 LYRIC VOICES MAR 27 – APR 07 Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem Bound To “. two united in a single soul . .” World Premiere 06 SPACE BETWEEN MAR 29 – APR 09 Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes Liam Scarlett World Premiere Björk Ballet 07 THE LITTLE MERMAID APR 19 – APR 28 08 SHOSTAKOVICH TRILOGY MAY 07 – MAY 12 Symphony #9 Chamber Symphony Piano Concerto #1 SF BALLET SCHOOL 2019 SPRING FESTIVAL MAY 23–25 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts THIS IS BALLET Bound To© by Christopher Wheeldon Miranda Silveira and Wei Wang in Ratmansky's Shostakovich Trilogy // © Erik Tomasson SFBALLET.ORG January 2019 PROGRAM 01 | DON QUIXOTE Volume 96, No. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 5 Greetings from the Artistic Director 2019 & Principal Choreographer Paul Heppner 0 6 Board of Trustees SEASON President Endowment Foundation Board Mike Hathaway Senior Vice President 0 7 SF Ballet Leadership Kajsa Puckett 0 8 For Your Information Vice President, Sales & Marketing JAN 25—MAY 12 0 9 Timeline Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager 1 0 Season News 05 01 DON QUIXOTE Production 1 1 Tributes JAN 25 – FEB 03 Susan Peterson Vice President, Production 1 2 Explore Ballet 02 KALEIDOSCOPE Jennifer Sugden FEB 12 – FEB 23 1 6 Artists of the Company Assistant Production Manager Divertimento No. 15 2 4 PROGRAM 01 Don Quixote Appassionata Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers Anima Animus 3 2 SF Ballet Orchestra Sales 3 4 SF Ballet Staff 03 IN SPACE & TIME Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed FEB 14 – FEB 24 San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 3 6 Donor Events and News The Fifth Season Devin Bannon, Brieanna Hansen, Ann Manning 4 0 SF Ballet Donors Snowblind Seattle Area Account Executives Études Carol Yip 5 4 Thank You to Our Volunteers Sales CoordinatorEMG 04 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 5 6 Last Words on Don Quixote MAR 09 – MAR 17 Marketing ShaunMASTHEAD Swick 05 LYRIC VOICES Senior Designer & Digital Lead MAR 27 – APR 07 Ciara Caya Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem Marketing Coordinator Bound To Encore Media Group “. two united in a single soul . .” 425 North 85th Street World Premiere Seattle, WA 98103 24 06 SPACE BETWEEN p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 MAR 29 – APR 09 f 206.443.1246 Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes [email protected] Liam Scarlett World Premiere www.encoremediagroup.com Björk Ballet FOLLOW US BEFORE AND AFTER THE PERFORMANCE! 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Reproduction without 08 SHOSTAKOVICH TRILOGY written permission is prohibited. youtube.com/sfballet instagram.com/sfballet MAY 07 – MAY 12 Symphony #9 Chamber Symphony San Francisco Ballet Program Book Vol. 26, No. 3 Piano Concerto #1 | | 2019 Repertory Season All editorial material © San Francisco Ballet, 2019 Chris Hellman Center for Dance 455 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 SF BALLET SCHOOL 2019 SPRING FESTIVAL 415 861 5600 | sfballet.org MAY 23–25 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Cover: Mathilde Froustey // © Erik Tomasson Above, top to bottom: Helgi Tomasson; THIS IS BALLET San Francisco Ballet in Tomasson/Possokhov's Bound To© by Christopher Wheeldon Don Quixote // Both © Erik Tomasson Miranda Silveira and Wei Wang in Ratmansky's Shostakovich Trilogy // © Erik Tomasson SFBALLET.ORG PROGRAM 01 | SFBALLET.ORG | 3 “First Republic shares our passion for innovation and world-class performance.” ANDREA MILLER Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Gallim Dance 2017-2018 Artist in Residence, Th e Metropolitan Museum of Art (855) 886-4824 | fi rstrepublic.com | New York Stock Exchange symbol: FRC MEMBER FDIC AND EQUAL HOUSING LENDER EAP full-page template.indd 1 7/27/18 4:24 PM GREETINGS FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER Welcome to San Francisco Ballet’s 2019 Repertory Season. I’m pleased to start our 86th Season with Don Quixote. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Marius Petipa's vibrant ballet, which premiered at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow in 1869. With virtuosic, exuberant dancing and a story that keeps you laughing, Don Quixote is as fun for the dancers as it is for audiences. Choreographer in Residence Yuri Possokhov—who grew up with the Bolshoi Ballet’s production—and I staged San Francisco Ballet’s first full-length production of Don Quixote in 2003. Since then, our production has given dozens of dancers the chance to challenge themselves against the theatrical demands of the lead roles, and many more to shine as villagers, toreadors, and driads. Don Quixote became so popular with our audiences that we commissioned new sets and costumes in 2012. My dear friend Martin Pakledinaz designed a colorful new world for our Don Quixote, one of his last projects before his death later that year. I can’t watch this production without remembering his friendship and his talent. These performances of Don Quixote are the start of a wonderful season of ballet here at the Opera House. We have two additional FP 4 story ballets in our 2019 Season, The Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid, both very different takes on beloved fairy tales. Our Sleeping Beauty is a celebration of the classical ballet tradition, with glorious dancing and Tchaikovsky’s iconic music. John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid is a visually stunning work of dance theater that explores the deeper, emotional themes of the original story, set to a score by Lera Auerbach. In addition to our full-length classics, we’ll also be performing a number of premieres this season. Liam Scarlett, who choreographed our recent Frankenstein, returned to create a new work set to Rachmaninoff. Our own Choreographer in Residence Yuri Possokhov has created a fascinating new ballet, “. two united in a single soul . .”, based on the myth of Narcissus. New to SF Ballet is Benjamin Millepied’s Appassionata. Created for Paris Opera Ballet in 2016, this ballet follows three couples through one tumultuous evening. We’re bringing back Études, a thrilling ballet that features more than half of the Company onstage dancing. And we’re drawing upon the deep well of material created for the 2018 Unbound festival, bringing back five wonderful ballets. Thank you for being a part of our audience and supporting San Francisco Ballet. I hope you’ll join us again this season as we continue to explore the many facets of classical and contemporary ballet. Sincerely, Helgi Tomasson Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer PROGRAM 01 | 415 865 2000 | 5 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 Christine E. Sherry David A. Kaplan Margaret G. Gill, Vice Chair Susan P. Diekman Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Mary Jo Kovacevich James H. Herbert, II†, Vice Chair Sonia H. Evers Catherine Slavonia James J. Ludwig† Lucy Jewett, Vice Chair Shelby M. Gans David Hooker Spencer Stephanie Marver James D. Marver, Vice Chair Joseph C. Geagea Fran A. Streets Nancy H. Mohr Diane B. Wilsey, Vice Chair Richard Gibbs, M.D. Judy C. Swanson Marie-Louise Pratt Nancy Kukacka, Treasurer Beth Grossman Richard J. Thalheimer George R. Roberts Jennifer J. McCall, Secretary Matthew T. Hobart Miles Archer Woodlief Kathleen Scutchfield Susan S. Briggs, Assistant Secretary Patrick M. Hogan Timothy C. Wu Robert M. Smelick Thomas E. Horn Zhenya Yoder Susan A. Van Wagner Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director Hiro Iwanaga Janice Hansen Zakin Dennis Wu & Principal Choreographer Thomas M. Jackson, M.D. Akiko Yamazaki Glenn McCoy*, Executive Director Elaine Kartalis James C. Katzman Yasunobu Kyogoku TRUSTEES EMERITI Kelsey Lamond Michael C. Abramson ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES Jola Anderson Brenda Leff Thomas W. Allen Ann Kathryn Baer, President, Kristen A. Avansino Marie O’Gara Lipman Marjorie Burnett San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary President Richard C. Barker† Alison Mauzé Charles Dishman Steve Merlo, , BRAVO President Karen S. Bergman Marissa Mayer Garrettson Dulin, Jr.† Daniel Cassell, , ENCORE! Gary Bridge John T. Palmer Millicent Dunham Stewart McDowell Brady, Chaomei Chen Kara Roell J. Stuart Francis† Patrice Lovato, Hannah Comolli Sally Hambrecht Christine Russell Co-Chairs, Allegro Circle Christine Leong Connors Randee Seiger Ingrid von Mangoldt Hills David C. Cox Robert G. Shaw Pamela J. Joyner† 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 6 | SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | PROGRAM 01 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.