Moving Forward
Featuring four selections including two world premiers!
Preview
Gottschalk’s Tarantelle
A dazzling display piece for four dancers complete with tambourines. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a New Orleans pianist-composer, dazzled Europeans and Americans with his compositions. This quick piece is full of speed and high spirits.
Choreographed in 1985. Last performed by City Ballet of San Diego in 1994.
Music
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Choreography
Elizabeth Wistrich
Holberg Pas de Deux
A dramatic pas de deux. Edvard Grieg wrote the music in honor of Norway’s great playwright and our Resident Choreographer Elizabeth Wistrich was inspired to create a lush, romantic duet – showcasing the artistry of City Ballet principal dancers Ariana and Geoff Gonzalez – husband and wife.
Choreographed in 2001 and last performed by City Ballet of San Diego in 2001.
Music
Edvard Grieg
Choreography
Elizabeth Wistrich
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World Premiere
A whimsical look at the 1960’s. Resident Choreographer Elizabeth Wistrich has created a delightful and slightly quirky ballet which truly captures the energy and beauty of the fourth movement of Brahms exquisite Piano Concerto No. 2
Music
Johannes Brahms
Choreography
Elizabeth Wistrich
The Fates
World Premiere
A new love story that transcends time. Resident Choreographer Geoff Gonzalez found inspiration from the three Greek Moirai or Fates – past, present and future – and used the second movements of pieces by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. ‘The Fates’ will extend the boundaries of where dance films have gone before, but filmed in a highly innovative and provocative technique that will make the audience feel that they are one with the dancers.
Music
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography
Geoff Gonzalez