sf_herminator Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 The Opening Night Gala Performance of the 2023 Season will be on Thursday, January 19. Programming has been posted, which will include excerpts from some of the next@90 pieces (casting has not been posted at this time): https://www.sfballet.org/productions/gala/ GALA PROGRAMMING Third Movement from Haffner Serenade (World Premiere) Choreographer: Robert Garland Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Balcony Pas de Deux from Romeo & Juliet Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson Composer: Sergei Prokofiev Postcripum (World Premiere) Choreographer: Yuri Possokhov Composer: Shinji Eshima Excerpt from MADCAP (World Premiere) Choreographer: Danielle Rowe Composer: Pär Hagström Music arranged By: Philip Feeney Double Stop Choreographer: Val Caniparoli Composer: Philip Glass Pas de Deux from Giselle, Act II Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson after Marius Petipa, Jules Perrot, and Jean Coralli Composer: Adolphe Adam "The Colour of Anything" from Blake Works I Choreographer: William Forsythe Composer: James Blake Pas de Deux from Cinderella, Act II Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon Composer: Sergei Prokofiev Excerpt from Gateway to the Sun (World Premiere) Choreographer: Nicolas Blanc Composer: Anna Clyne Excerpt from BOLERO (World Premiere) Choreographer: Yuka Oishi Composer: Maurice Ravel Link to comment
pherank Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 A real smorgasbord. Shinji Eshima's music for Possokhov has been great in the past - I wish I could see/hear that piece. Link to comment
sf_herminator Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) Casting is now posted for the gala performance: https://www.sfballet.org/tickets/casting/ GALA CASTING Thursday, January 19, 6:30 PM I. Third Movement from HAFFNER SERENADE (World Premiere) KATHERINE BARKMAN, ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez II. Balcony Pas de Deux from ROMEO & JULIET DORES ANDRÉ, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ III. POSTSCRIPTUM (World Premiere) YUAN YUAN TAN, AARON ROBISON IV. Excerpt from MADCAP (World Premiere) The Clown: TIIT HELIMETS The Oracle: JENNIFER STAHL The Juggled: MAX CAUTHORN, ALEXIS VALDES, WEI WANG Thamires Chuvas, Parker Garrison, Jasmine Jimison, Davide Occhipinti, Leili Rackow, Henry Sidford, Tyla Steinbach, Jamie Adele Stephens V. DOUBLE STOP WANTING ZHAO, LUKE INGHAM Eric Sung, Cello VI. Pas de Deux from GISELLE, Act II MISA KURANAGA, ANGELO GRECO Yi Zhou, Viola VII. “The Colour in Anything” from BLAKE WORKS I NIKISHA FOGO, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ VIII. Pas de Deux from CINDERELLA, Act II SASHA DE SOLA, JOSEPH WALSH IX. Excerpt from GATEWAY TO THE SUN (World Premiere) MAX CAUTHORN JENNIFER STAHL, LUKE INGHAM Eric Sung, Cello X. Excerpt from BOLERO (World Premiere) WONA PARK, JOSEPH WALSH KATHERINE BARKMAN, ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ SASHA MUKHAMEDOV, DANIEL DEIVISON-OLIVEIRA Juliana Bellissimo, Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo Luca Ferrò, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez, John-Paul Simoens, Hansuke Yamamoto *CASTING SUBJECT TO CHANGE Edited January 14, 2023 by sf_herminator Link to comment
Josette Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 (edited) I recall that in previous Galas, each principal and soloist was featured in some way, and I see several of my favorites not listed as performing and then, additionally, one new female soloist featured twice, and four male principals featured twice each, including the two Hernandez brothers and with Esteban Hernandez with Katherine Barkman twice. Katherine Barkman is lovely, but where are the equally talented and beloved Julia Rowe and Isabella DeVivo and David Morse and Lonnie Weeks and Cavan Conley and Diego Cruz and Lucas Erni and Ellen Rose Hummel and Norika Matsuyama and Elizabeth Powell and Myles Thatcher? Edited January 17, 2023 by Josette Needed to correct an incorrectly spelled name. Link to comment
pherank Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 59 minutes ago, Josette said: I recall that in previous Galas, each principal and soloist was featured in some way, and I see several of my favorites not listed as performing and then, additionally, one new female soloist featured twice, and four male principals featured twice each, including the two Hernandez brothers and with Esteban Hernandez with Katherine Barkman twice. Katherine Barkman is lovely, but where are the equally talented and beloved Julia Rowe and Isabella DeVito and David Morse and Lonnie Weeks and Cavan Conley and Diego Cruz and Lucas Erni and Ellen Rose Hummel and Norika Matsuyama and Elizabeth Powell and Myles Thatcher? Some of this is due to injury (Mukhamdov and Sheehan for example), and Barkman gets lucky with the world premiere choices, but some of the absences are just big question marks. Link to comment
PeggyTulle Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Josette said: I recall that in previous Galas, each principal and soloist was featured in some way, and I see several of my favorites not listed as performing and then, additionally, one new female soloist featured twice, and four male principals featured twice each, including the two Hernandez brothers and with Esteban Hernandez with Katherine Barkman twice. Katherine Barkman is lovely, but where are the equally talented and beloved Julia Rowe and Isabella DeVito and David Morse and Lonnie Weeks and Cavan Conley and Diego Cruz and Lucas Erni and Ellen Rose Hummel and Norika Matsuyama and Elizabeth Powell and Myles Thatcher? Excellent question... I saw the casting and thought, whoa, it's the Hernandez brothers show. Link to comment
Josette Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, pherank said: Some of this is due to injury (Mukhamdov and Sheehan for example), and Barkman gets lucky with the world premiere choices, but some of the absences are just big question marks. But Sasha Mukhamedov is scheduled to dance at the Gala, and Sheehan is not a soloist. I agree with PeggyTulle that it's the Hernandez Brothers' show even though I do like Esteban very, very much. (I've only seen Isaac once live since he left SFB, when he danced in Akram Khan's Giselle in 2019 with ENB, and everyone was outshone by the extraordinary Jeffrey Cirio.) The Gala casting is very different from what Helgi Tomasson arranged each year. Link to comment
pherank Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 45 minutes ago, Josette said: But Sasha Mukhamedov is scheduled to dance at the Gala, and Sheehan is not a soloist. I agree with PeggyTulle that it's the Hernandez Brothers' show even though I do like Esteban very, very much. (I've only seen Isaac once live since he left SFB, when he danced in Akram Khan's Giselle in 2019 with ENB, and everyone was outshone by the extraordinary Jeffrey Cirio.) The Gala casting is very different from what Helgi Tomasson arranged each year. If Mukhamdov is feeling up to it now, then great. She skipped Nutcracker in hopes of being able to dance the regular season (that was talked about in an Instagram video). Expect to see a lot of the Hernandez brothers though. 😉 Link to comment
Phrenchphry11 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Well, something came up last-minute, so I'm bummed to miss the Gala this week. I can't wait to read the reports though! The program looks interesting (aside from not a ton of virtuosic classical pdds!), but I definitely echo what others are saying. Seems like most of the principals are featured, but there's a LOT of the Hernandez brothers, and very little of the up-and-coming soloists. Julia Rowe and Isabella DeVivo were both dancers I had expected to eventually make it to principal, so it feels like a shame they aren't featured. It definitely seems that things are changing with the new administration. I don't want to be too tied to the old way of doing things, but I hope this doesn't portend attrition over the coming year. Since Sheehan came up, I don't think I saw her at all last season. Is she injured? I saw her a few years ago in Sleeping Beauty and was blown away, but I've seen hardly anything of her since. Link to comment
PeggyTulle Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Phrenchphry11 said: Since Sheehan came up, I don't think I saw her at all last season. Is she injured? I saw her a few years ago in Sleeping Beauty and was blown away, but I've seen hardly anything of her since. IIRC, she didn't dance in Nutcracker this season. Link to comment
sf_herminator Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 3:05 PM, Phrenchphry11 said: Well, something came up last-minute, so I'm bummed to miss the Gala this week. I can't wait to read the reports though! The program looks interesting (aside from not a ton of virtuosic classical pdds!), but I definitely echo what others are saying. Seems like most of the principals are featured, but there's a LOT of the Hernandez brothers, and very little of the up-and-coming soloists. Julia Rowe and Isabella DeVivo were both dancers I had expected to eventually make it to principal, so it feels like a shame they aren't featured. It definitely seems that things are changing with the new administration. I don't want to be too tied to the old way of doing things, but I hope this doesn't portend attrition over the coming year. Since Sheehan came up, I don't think I saw her at all last season. Is she injured? I saw her a few years ago in Sleeping Beauty and was blown away, but I've seen hardly anything of her since. Casting change alert: Julia Rowe will now dance with Esteban Hernandez in the excerpts from both Haffner Serenade and Bolero (only posting changes below but you can go to the link https://www.sfballet.org/tickets/casting/) I. Third Movement from HAFFNER SERENADE (World Premiere) JULIA ROWE, ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez X. Excerpt from BOLERO (World Premiere) WONA PARK, JOSEPH WALSH JULIA ROWE, ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ SASHA MUKHAMEDOV, DANIEL DEIVISON-OLIVEIRA Juliana Bellissimo, Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo Luca Ferrò, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez, John-Paul Simoens, Hansuke Yamamoto Link to comment
pherank Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 6 hours ago, sf_herminator said: Casting change alert: Julia Rowe will now dance with Esteban Hernandez in the excerpts from both Haffner Serenade and Bolero (only posting changes below but you can go to the link https://www.sfballet.org/tickets/casting/) 😉 Link to comment
pherank Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Gala and gala performance photos from Sasha De Sola:https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxUvtTSsJk/ and Sasha Mukhamedov:https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpUJrnPXzW/ and Joe Walsh:https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnqn4zsOwoB/ Dores Andre celebrating her 20th year with the company!https://www.instagram.com/p/CnqLnSSLfRw/ Link to comment
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