San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival features ten world-premiere works choreographed by ten choreographers, opening over three days. While details of each ballet are “top secret” prior to the Festival, the local and international choreographers participating are Julia Adam, Val Caniparoli, Jorma Elo, Margaret Jenkins, James Kudelka, Mark Morris, Yuri Possokhov, Paul Taylor, Stanton Welch, and Christopher Wheeldon.
New Works Festival
The programming for the New Works Festival is as follows:
April 22, New Works Festival Opening Night, Program A:
Yuri Possokhov
Composers: Graham Fitkin, Rahul Dev Burman
Scenic Design: Ben Pierce
Costume Design: Sandra Woodall
Paul Taylor
Composer: TBD
Costume Design: Santo Loquasto
Christopher Wheeldon
Composer: Ezio Bosso
Costume Design: Martin Pakledinaz
Program A performance dates: April 22 (Eve), April 25 (Eve), April 27 (Mat), May 1 (Eve), and May 4 (Eve)
April 23, New Works Festival Opening Night, Program B:
Julia Adam
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Costume Design: Christine Darch
James Kudelka
Composer: Rodney Sharman
Costume Design: Jim Searle
Mark Morris
Composer: John Adams
Costume Design: Isaac Mizrahi
Stanton Welch
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Scenic Design: Thomas Boyd
Costume Design: Holly Hynes
Program B performance dates: April 23 (Eve), April 26 (Mat), April 29 (Eve), May 2 (Eve), May 3 (Eve), and May 4 (Mat)
April 24, New Works Festival, Opening Night, Program C:
Val Caniparoli
Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Scenic and Costume Design: Sandra Woodall
Jorma Elo
Composers: Philip Glass, Vladimir Martinov
Costume Design: Holly Hynes
Margaret Jenkins
Composer: Paul Dresher
Scenic Design: Alexander Nichols
Costume Design: Beaver Bauer
Program C performance dates: April 24 (Eve), April 26 (Eve), April 30 (Eve), May 3 (Mat), and May 6 (Eve)
New Works Festival Symposium
San Francisco Ballet will also host a dance symposium, Sustaining Dance in the 21st Century: Striking a Balance, in conjunction with the opening of the New Works Festival on the evenings of April 22 and 23. A group of dance experts will serve as panelists in the two-part program that will explore the role of emerging technology in creating, experiencing, and communicating dance, and how a classical art form can remain relevant in the context of new works. The New Works Festival Symposium is free and open to the public, however tickets are required for admittance.
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