Masters of Movement
Ballet Arizona’s Season is highlighted by Classics, Innovations and A New Home
Artistic Director Ib Andersen announces Ballet Arizona’s 2013-2014 season – presenting six remarkable programs, including full-length favorites and Arizona premieres. The 2013-2014 season will demonstrate the virtuosity and artistry of Ib Andersen and the nationally recognized Ballet Arizona company.
The season will open in October with the highly anticipated return of the storybook tale of Cinderella which premiered to sold-out audiences in 2011. Performed at Symphony Hall with The Phoenix Symphony, Cinderella combines magnificent beauty, ravishing costumes, and Prokofiev’s ultra-lush score in the retelling of this popular fairytale. This fall, Ballet Arizona will unveil its new home on 2835 E. Washington Street with a celebratory grand opening including: a Gala, a Free Community Day and an extensive new schedule of classes at The School of Ballet Arizona for adults and children. The facility, over ten times the size of Ballet Arizona’s former home is designed to be the center for dance in Phoenix. The $10 million building has seven dance studios, an intimate theatre that seats 299 patrons for performances and community events, a shoe room that can hold more than 2,000 pairs of pointe shoes, a Dancer’s wing including locker room facilities, lounge, and physical therapy room, a costume and scenic shop along with artistic, administrative and support offices.
The Holiday season begins in December with the return of Arizona’s biggest Holiday event, The Nutcracker at Symphony Hall with The Phoenix Symphony for 19 performances. It is a fun-filled, magical adventure for the whole family – complete with falling snow, dancing toys, and waltzing flowers. The highlight of the performance season is the world premiere of La Bayadère, a historic classic newly-staged by Ballet Arizona’s Artistic Director Ib Andersen and set in royal India of the past. La Bayadère is a dramatic ballet of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance and justice intertwined to tell the story of Nikiya, a temple dancer, her lover Solor, and the vengeance that keeps them apart, at least in this life.
Spring 2014 brings Masters of Movement to the historic Orpheum Theatre for a program that features works by today’s most compelling choreographers. Alejandro Cerrudo, acclaimed choreographer from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presents Off Screen, a dance inspired by film and Ib Andersen’s Symphonie Classique is an elegant and classic short masterpiece.
In May, Ballet Arizona presents the annual All Balanchine program. This program – a trio of signature works by the renowned choreographer will showcase the company’s critically acclaimed interpretation of Balanchine ballets. The highlight of this program will be the Arizona premiere of Western Symphony – a rodeo full of frisky fillies and lonesome cowpokes danced to traditional western songs that will bring the crowd to its feet.
The finale of the season, Innovations will be an intimate experience at the new Dorrance Theatre right at Ballet Arizona’s new Washington Street home. Emerging choreographers create world premieres on the Ballet Arizona dancers that show the bold, new directions in the world of contemporary ballet.
OPEN THE FRONT DOOR TO Ballet Arizona’s 2013-2014 Season
