An American In Paris

Very Parisienne

Performances

Balboa Theatre
Downtown, San Diego

Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 8:00pm
Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 2:00pm

Center Theater at the California Center for the Arts
Escondido

Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 7:30pm

Program

A program exclusively of firsts. Geoffrey Gonzalez premieres his new ballet, An American in Paris. Elizabeth Wistrich premieres her new ballet, Boléro – The Awakening. And City Ballet adds their first Christopher Wheeldon ballet to their repertoire, Morphoses.

An American In Paris

World Premiere

Inspired by the story of American fashion designer Claire McCardell, a young lady, alone, arrives off a ship to find herself in blossoming Paris. Her dream is to design fashion for American women, inspired by the Chanel luxury fashion house in the early-1960s.

Choreography

Geoffrey Gonzalez (2024)

Music

George Gershwin’s An American in Paris (1928)

Boléro – The Awakening

World Premiere

Exploring the ways the heart reacts to different emotions

Choreography

Elizabeth Wistrich (2024)

Music

Maurice Ravel’s Boléro (1928)

Morphoses

City Ballet of San Diego Premiere

With Morphoses, City Ballet will add their first Christopher Wheeldon ballet to their repertoire. Morphoses is a complex, athletic ballet for four dancers that is an ideal introduction to Wheeldon, with influences from George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins, and Kenneth MacMillan.

Choreography

Christopher Wheeldon (2002)

Staging

Michele Gifford

Costumes

Holly Hynes

Lighting

Mark Stanley

Music

György Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 1
(Métamorphoses nocturnes) (1953-1954)

World Premiere: October 2008, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, New York City Center

Programming subject to change

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