THE DYING SWAN

Choreography: Mikhail Fokine 

Music: Camille Saint Saëns, Le cygne from Le Carnaval (des animaux)

Costumes: Irina Dvorovenko

Lighting Design: Michael Jarett

Lauren Lovette 

It has been 115 years since Anna Pavlova first performed her famous swan solo. Now a celebrated part of ballet history, The Dying Swan was originally inspired by the ballerina’s visits with swans in public parks and Lord Tennvon’s poem of the same title. Pavlova had recently become a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre when she asked choreographer Mikhail Fokine to create a solo for her as a pièce d’occasion. At a Mariinsky ballet gala in 1905, their collaborative piece debuted and The Dying Swan was born. 

WONDERLAND

Choreography: Penny Saunders

Music: ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ arranged by Penny Saunders

Costumes: Pacific Northwest Ballet

Lighting Design: Michael Jarett

Elle Macy

Dylan Wald

VOICES 

Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky

Music: Selections from "Voices and Piano", featuring the voices of Bonnie Barnett, Forough Farrokhzad, Setsuko Hara, Agnes Martin, Nina Simone, and Gjendine Slålien

Costumes: Keso Dekker

Lighting Design: Mark Stanley

Laruen Lovette

Set to six excerpts from experimental composer Peter Ablinger’s "Voices and Piano", all featuring recorded speech by notable women with accompanying solo piano, Ratmansky’s newest ballet for NYCB features character-rich and technically demanding solos for ten dancers.

TSCHAIKOVSKY PAS de DEUX

Music: Peter Illyitch Tchaikovsky

Choreography: George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust

Costumes: Philadelphia Ballet

Lighting Design: Mark Stanley 

Sydney Dolan 

Ashton Roxander 

The performance of Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, a Balanchine Ballet ®, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style ® and Balanchine Technique ® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

THIS BITTER EARTH 

Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon 

Music: Max Richter, Clyde Otis, and Dinah Washington 

Costumes: Reid Bartelme 

Lighting Design: Mary Louise Geige

Lauren Lovette

Andrew Veyette 

TRAVELER PART III

Choreography: Ariel Rose

Music: ‘False Alarms’ written and performed by Josiah Johnson 

Costumes: Jackie Oakley 

Lighting Design: Michael Jarett

Mira Nadon

Andrew Veyette

Elle Macy 

Ashton Roxander

Created for SCDC in 2020 as a part of 3 part film series. Traveler was nominated by 2021 Canadian the International Fashion Film Festival, in the dance category.