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San Francisco Bay Area:  2004-2005 Season

Cal Performances
2004-2005 Dance Season
For more information:  http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu

Shen Wei Dance Arts
Sept 25-26
For its Bay Area debut, the company will perform a double bill of acclaimed works showcasing his powerful hybrid of Eastern and Western artistic influences, including The Rite of Spring, Shen Wei's fiercely original exploration of Stravinsky's two-piano score, cited as one of the 10 best dance events of 2003 by The New York Times.

National Ballet of Canada
September 30 - October 3
Kudelka/There, below, set to Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; The Four Seasons, set to Vivaldi; Balanchine/Apollo, set to Stravinsky

Mark Morris Dance Group

Oct 22-24
In the first of two programs performed to live musical accompaniment, the Mark Morris Dance Group returns with Morris' beautifully geometric Mosaic and United, a grand display of Morris' visual and rhythmic imagination, set to Henry Cowell string quartets, in addition to an as-yet untitled West Coast premiere.
Oct 28 - 30

In the second of two programs performed entirely to live musical accompaniment, the ensemble returns with the world premiere of another Cal Performances-commissioned work, plus the reprise of All Fours (also commissioned by Cal Performances), a vibrant and austerely beautiful work set to Bartók's Fourth String Quartet. The program will also include I Don't Want to Love, set to Monteverdi madrigals, and Morris' powerful V — a piece already hailed by the critics as a "classic" — set to Schumann's Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44.

Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker
Nov 26 - Dec 5
Making the most of Bourne's trademark clever staging and satirical flair, Nutcracker! re-imagines the classic holiday story, following Clara's Christmas Eve dream from a bleak Victorian orphanage, through a shimmering ice-skating wonderland, to the candy-coated magical realm of Sweetieland. Set to Tchaikovsky's traditional score, with spectacularly colorful and whimsical sets and costumes by Olivier Award-winning designer Anthony Ward, Bourne's Nutcracker! is "a near-perfect blend of wit and wisdom, camp and romance, innocent charm and sly knowing," says CurtainUp (London).

Trisha Brown Dance Company
Feb 25 - 26
Trisha Brown's pioneering artistry has influenced a generation of modern dance choreographers and she has become known worldwide for her unique ability to infuse rigorous formal elegance with eccentricity, wit, and lyricism. Brown's acclaimed company returns following the West Coast premiere in 2000 of her Canto/Pianto, a dance synthesis of Brown's much-praised staging of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Mar 11 - 20
New works plus Revelations

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
May 5 - 7

Eifman Ballet
June 8 - 12
"This Russian dancemaker and his dancers are among the most fascinating artists before the public today," raved the San Francisco Chronicle, following Eifman Ballet's triumphant 2003 premiere of Red Giselle. Widely considered Russia's greatest living choreographer, Boris Eifman founded his own company, the Leningrad Ballet Ensemble, almost 30 years ago, and quietly revolutionized Soviet dance by devising his own imaginative and inimitable style — fusing ballet's emotion and expressiveness with the storytelling techniques of 20th-century theater and film. His boldly theatrical and inventive St. Petersburg troupe returns to the Bay Area to perform two full-length works: the premiere of Eifman's Anna Karenina, a brand new work set to Tchaikovsky and based on the famous Tolstoy novel; and Eifman's critically acclaimed Don Juan & Molière, a satirical and seductive dance-drama set to Mozart and Berlioz.


 


 

 

 

 

San Francisco Ballet
2005 Repertory Season

Program 1
Mixed Repertory
"...smile with my heart"
7 FOR EIGHT
THEME AND VARIATIONS
Opens February 1

Program 2
Mixed Repertory
MAELSTROM
WELCH WORLD PREMIERE
COMPANY B
Opens February 3

Program 3
Full Length
GISELLE
Opens February 19

Program 4
Mixed Repertory
SQUARE DANCE
GROSSE FUGE
POSSOKHOV WORLD PREMIERE
Opens March 9

Program 5
Mixed Repertory
MEISTENS MOZART
CONCERTO GROSSO
STUDY IN MOTION
THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
Opens March 11

Program 6
Mixed Repertory
DYBBUK
LAMBARENA
Work TBA
Opens April 5

Program 7
Mixed Repertory
RUSH
IN THE NIGHT
PRISM
Opens April 7

Program 8
Full Length
ROMEO & JULIET
Opens April 30

 


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