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.