Ballet West’s next season will feature major works that are new to Utah’s largest dance company — as well as some beloved classics, including Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and “The Sleeping Beauty.”
The company announced Thursday that its repertoire is larger than it has performed in years, with six different productions — four of them premieres to Ballet West and to Utah. Three of the shows are full-length story ballets, and several feature works created by women in the early 20th century.
Also back for the 2022-2023 season will be the Ballet West Orchestra, led by music director Jared Oaks.
“This season will show the range and grandeur of Ballet West as a company,” artistic director Adam Sklute said in a statement.
For his 15th season as artistic director, Sklute said he wanted “to highlight the range and scope of Ballet West’s artistic prowess, from spectacular to intimate, from landmark pieces out of history, to beloved, well-known stories, to lesser-known gems—all the brilliant facets that make BW a unique and major entity in the dance world.”
All shows will be performed at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City.
Here is the lineup:
October 21-29 • “Onegin,” chroeographed by John Cranko in 1965, and based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse about a young woman, Tatiana, who grows enamored of the cold Eugene Onegin, as she transforms into a noblewoman in charge of her own fate. Ballet West first performed “Onegin” in 2019.
November 4-12 • Three works: “Rodeo,” choreographed by Agnes de Mille to the music of Aaron Copland, a work Ballet West had planned to premiere in 2020, until the COVID-19 pandemic began; “Concerto Barocco,” George Balanchine’s 1941 work set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins; and Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián’s 1975 work “Return to a Strange Land.”
December 4-24 • Ballet West’s Christmas tradition, “The Nutcracker,” based on Ballet West founder Willam Christensen’s original choreography.
February 10-18, 2023 • “The Sleeping Beauty,” with Sklute adapting the classic choreography of Marius Petipa, set to Tchaikovsky’s score.
April 7-8, 2023 • Ballet West’s Family Classics Series will produce a version of “Snow White,” choreographed and adapted for the stage by Pamela Robinson-Harris, Ballet West’s principal rehearsal director.
April 14-23, 2023 • Three works making their Ballet West premieres: “The Wedding (Los Noces),” a long-lost work from 1923 by Polish choreographer Bronislava Nijinska (sister of the famed Vaslav Nijinsky) and composer Igor Stravinsky; “In the Night,” choreographed by Jerome Robbins to a Frederick Chopin piano work; and the 1981 work “Light Rain,” created by Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino.
For more information about the season and to purchase tickets, visit balletwest.org. Single tickets will go on sale in September. A five-performance packs start at $131.
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