Monday, August 16, 2021
8:15 p.m.
Amphitheater
Chautauqua Apprentice Dancers
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux
Director of the School of Dance
Patricia McBride, Director of Ballet Studies and Master Teacher
Sasha Janes, Director of Contemporary Studies
When We Gathered Beneath the Big Sky
Choreography by Joseph Jefferies
Music by Aaron Copland
Costume Design by Jessica Toby Lustig
Olivia Cornelius, Aram Hengen
Adrienne Klimchak, Ashton Bradley
Christiana Cecere, Joaquin Ruiz
Jaya Dhand
Claudia Duff, Tess Fein, Hattie Golebiewski, Scarlett Haslam, Emily Jorgensen, Brigitte Kossuth, Sarah Lewis, Mairead Moore, Elly Pearl O’Connell, Emily Soria
Pause
Sideralis
Choreography by Mark Godden
Music Recomposed by Max Richter
“Sideralis” (“Sidereal time” is time measured relative to the stars)
“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.
Your first parent was a star.”
—Jeannette Winterson
Malena Ani, Noah Martzall
Olivia Cornelius, Christiana Cecere, Karsen Gresham, Elly Pearl O’Connell, Gia DiLisio, Destiny Wimpye, Emily Soria, Maria (Mia) Steedle, Emily Hain, Niamh Perrins, Lara Bircak, Vanessa Meikle, Tess Fein, Mairead Moore, Raphael Schreiber, Aram Hengen, Jacob Soltero
Pause
A Fraction of Abstraction
Choreography by Sasha Janes
Music by John Adams and Jóhann Jóhannsson
Gia DiLisio, Maeve Dunckel, Karsen Gresham, Emily Hain, Elly Pearl O’Connell, Niamh Perrins, Samantha Stinson, Destiny Wimpye, Noah Martzall, Raphael Schreiber, Jacob Soltero
Pause
Excerpts from Raymonda Variations
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Alexander Glazunov
Staged by Patricia McBride
Premiered December 7, 1961
Pas de Deux
Maria (Mia) Steedle and Noah Martzall
Variations
- Darcy Leigh McLoughlin
- Christiana Cecere
- Malena Ani
- Lara Bircak
- Rachel Nash
- Vanessa Meikle
- Jacob Soltero
- Maria (Mia) Steedle
Finale
Maria (Mia) Steedle, Jacob Soltero
Vanessa Meikle, Elaine Rand
Malena Ani, Lara Bircak, Christiana Cecere, Olivia Cornelius, Scarlett Rae Fulton, Emily Hain, Olivia Jacobus, Darcy Leigh McLoughlin, Mairead Moore, Rachel Nash
The performance of Raymonda Variations, 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 program is made possible by the Carnahan-Jackson Dance Endowment.