OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET
ANNOUNCES 2018 - 2019 SEASON
Oklahoma City Ballet has announced
its 2018-2019 lineup of performances. Season ticket subscriptions are
available for three or four performance
packages.
Leading off the season will be Septime Webre's
Alice (In Wonderland), October 26-28, 2018 at Civic Center Music
Hall. Webre's choreography and Matthew Pierce's musical score bring
the Lewis Carroll imaginative classic hurtling into the 21st century
with sensational costumes, ingenious sets,
and more than its fair share of outlandish characters. This stylish
production is an incredible spectacle of dance, theater, and puppetry,
and features numerous students from the
Oklahoma City Ballet Yvonne Chouteau School.
When it premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
in Washington D.C., the Washington Post called it a "giddy parade, a
pop-art dream, a feat of fevered imagination."
The Nutcracker,
presented by Devon Energy, will
return to the stage December 14-23, 2018. Choreographed by Oklahoma City
Ballet’s Artistic Director Robert Mills,
The Nutcracker is Oklahoma City’s favorite holiday tradition and
is the perfect way to fill your heart with the spirit of the season.
Close to 100 children from The Oklahoma City Ballet Yvonne Chouteau School
join Oklahoma
City Ballet’s stunning professional dancers, plus the Oklahoma City
Philharmonic will perform Tchaikovsky’s famous score live to complete
this dreamlike production the whole family will enjoy.
The
first production of the new year will be one of the world's oldest
surviving ballets and the first major ballet of the Romantic era,
La Sylphide, February
22-24, 2019. This classic story tells the tale of James, a young
Scotsman, who on the eve of his wedding day, falls in love with a sylph,
a beautiful fairy of the forest. The glorious score
from Herman Severin Lovenskiold will be played live by the incomparable
Oklahoma City Philharmonic, while August Bournonville's original
choreography tells the story that will unravel in a mist of uncertainty
as an evil witch vows to keep James from true love
of any kind.
The season will end on a high note with a triple bill entitled
Visionaries that will thrill ballet enthusiasts and new patrons alike.
The
April 19-20, 2019 triple lineup of ballets includes Robert Joffrey’s
Pas de Deesses, an Oklahoma Premiere, featuring live piano music performed onstage. Meaning “Dance of the Goddesses,”
Pas de Deesses is a delicate remembrance of the Romantic era
created by Robert Joffrey in 1954. Inspired by a 19th century
lithograph, the ballet is an imaginary glimpse of three great ballerinas
– Lucille Grahn, Marie Taglioni, and Fanny Cerrito – meeting
and competing for the attentions of the great male dancer and partner
Arthur Saint-Leon
(who was married to Cerrito). Oklahoma City Ballet is pleased to
honor Mr. Joffrey during the 30th anniversary year of his passing by
presenting this ballet.
George Balanchine’s
The Four Temperaments, a Company Premiere, is one of George
Balanchine’s earliest works in his signature neo-classical style, fusing
ballet steps with a lean and angular modern sensibility. The ballet is
inspired by the medieval belief that humans are
made up of four different humors that determine a person’s temperament:
melancholic, sanguinic, phlegmatic, and choleric. First performed in
1946 and set to a commissioned score by Paul Hindemith,
The Four Temperaments is one of Balanchine’s most iconic ballets and is performed by companies around the world.
The
final choreographer on the bill will be Cayetano Soto Ramirez, a new
dance maker with a profound talent. His choreography has won numerous
awards, and his technical, contemporary, and
often unexpected works are in the repertoires of major international
dance companies. Oklahoma City Ballet is pleased to debut a world
premiere from this forward-thinking artist created especially for our
dancers.
Season
tickets to three or four performances may be purchased by calling
405-848-TOES (8637). All performances take place at the Civic Center
Music Hall, 201 North Walker, Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma City Ballet Box Office is open Monday through Friday from
9:00 am-5:00 pm, and is located at 6800 North Classen, Oklahoma City.
Season
tickets are available for renewal now. New subscriptions can be
submitted now and will be fulfilled starting June 1. For more
information visit
www.okcballet.org or call 405-843-9898.
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About
Oklahoma City Ballet: Founded in 1972 by Ballet Russe dancers Yvonne
Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov, Oklahoma City Ballet has been the city’s
professional ballet company for 46 years.
It is the resident dance Company of the Civic Center Music Hall and
currently boasts dancers from around the world. Led by Artistic Director
Robert Mills, the Company produces four main stage productions per
season in Oklahoma City and tours across Oklahoma
and the surrounding states. Oklahoma City Ballet restages the classics
in addition to neo-classical and other
works of the 20th century. It also regularly commissions new works from
the industry’s leading choreographers.
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