PETER and the WOLF

with STRAVINSKY PIECES
AN ALL-FAMILY BALLET

Performances

Balboa Theatre
868 Fourth Ave
Downtown San Diego

Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 2:00pm

Lobby opens at 1:30pm with special activities for children. Crafts, coloring, and photo opportunities with the City Ballet dance artists.

Joan B Kroc Theatre
6611 University Ave, San Diego

Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 2:00pm

Lobby opens at 1:30pm with special activities for children. Crafts, coloring, and photo opportunities with the City Ballet dance artists.

Run time: 1 hour

Two ballets in one family-friendly performance, teaching children about music and dance. First, Peter and the Wolf set to Sergei Prokofiev’s 1936 score recounts Peter’s adventures in the family garden and adjacent forest. And then Stravinsky Pieces turns eight sections from Igor Stravinsky’s suites for chamber orchestra (based on piano music composed for this children) into the perfect introduction to ballet.

PROGRAM

PETER and the WOLF

Elizabeth Wistrich’s choreography brings the classic Peter and the Wolftale to life. Follow Peter as he leaves the safety of the family garden and goes out into a clearing in the adjacent forest, joined by a duck from the garden, a bird in the forest, and a local cat. When the ferocious grey wolf appears, Peter catches the wolf with help from his animal friends. Peter convinces the hunters tracking the wolf to help him take it to the zoo in a victory parade.

Music: Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936)
Choreography: Elizabeth Wistrich

Stravinsky Pieces

Eight short sections from Stravinsky’s suites for chamber orchestra (originally composed by Stravinsky for his children to play as music students of the piano, wanting practicing the piano to be fun) are matched by the variety and virtuosity of Elizabeth Wistrich’s choreography creating the perfect introduction to ballet.

Music: Selections from Igor Stravinsky’s Suite No. 1 for Chamber Orchestra (1925) and Suite No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra (1921)
Choreography: Elizabeth Wistrich

Programming subject to change

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Photography provided by Chelsea Penyak, Jaroslav Richters, Sophie Robertson, Anna Scipione, Dale Stokes, and Carly Topazio. The photography on this website depicts choreography copyrighted by the individual choreographers. Videography provided by Gary St. Martin of Convention Video. Choreography by George Balanchine is copyrighted by The George Balanchine Trust.

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