The San Diego Ballet is a young, professional company, founded in 1991 and co-directed by Robin Sherertz Morgan and Javier Velasco. The troupe features a strong, contemporary repertory created by Mr. Velasco, the resident choreographer.San Diego Ballet's "Nutcracker" is fresh, magical, lavish, and easily tourable. The company's 24 professional dancers are supplemented by students from your community in the children's roles which the company will audition, rehearse, and costume with the help of a local dance teacher. In addition to several return engagements with the Billings Symphony, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and to Yavapai Community College in Prescott, Arizona, San Diego Ballet's "Nutcracker" has been hosted by the Great Falls Symphony (Montana) and by theatres in Gillette, Lander, Jackson Hole, and Sheridan, Wyoming. In addition to its Rocky Mountain and Southwest tours, the company also performs "The Nutcracker" throughout San Diego County. Availability is late November through mid December.
In addition to touring its holiday production of the full-length "Nutcracker" throughout the Western States, San Diego Ballet is offering for the 2008-2009 season several repertory programs:
With a company of 11 dancers, San Diego Ballet offers a mixed repertoire program of "When We Have the Stars," (music of Nat King Cole), the humorous "Arthur Murray's Dance Secrets," a sultry one-act "Mambomania" (Perez Prado), and classical pas de deux.
San Diego Ballet can also tour two one-act ballets with 25 dancers: a new, innovative "Alice: Wonderland" with hip-hop dancers and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (which can use local children), either of which can be programmed with "Rhapsody in Blue.”
Lecture-demonstrations, programs for young people, and master classes in various styles of dance are also available.
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