Second Season : November, 2006
Featuring returning guest artists Carlos Fittante and Juliana Bertelsen, the two-day run at the Marjorie Luke Theater included seven local dancers. World Premieres included Down Town Time, a semi-improvisational work choreographed in collaboration by Carrie Diamond and Melinda Horwitz and Ms. Horwitz’s Slowdance, both to music by Kenji Bunch. In addition, the season included West Coast premieres of Fittante’s Baroque solo Folia: a Baroque Pageant, Benjamin Harkarvy’s Frames to music of music director Eric Valinsky, Carrie Diamond’s Sueños Castellanos to music of De Falla and a reprise of Diamond’s Terra Incognita with new costumes by Anne Bruice.
November 10, 2006 at 8:00 pm
November 11, 2006 at 2:00 and 7:00 pm
Featuring Guest Artists
Carlos Fittante amd Juliana Bertelsen
Carrie Diamond, Artistic Director
Eric Valinsky, Music Director
Carlos Fittante, Christina Sanchez, Artistic Associates
The Dancers:
Eduardo Cueto
Nicole Helton
Christina Sanchez
Denise Woods
Technical Staff:
Patricia L. Frank, Lighting Designer
Ann Bruice, Costume Designer
Gitte, Stage Manager
The Program
Down Town Time (2006) — World Premiere
Slowdance (2006) — World Premiere
Folia: A Baroque Pageant — West Coast Premiere
NOTE: The word folia means “wild amusement” in Portuguese and refers to a boisterous shepherds’ song and dance that originated in the 15th century on the Iberian Peninsula. Originally an improvisational form, folia evolved into a stately musical composition with a set harmonic progression in order to facilitate virtuosic melodic displays. It was standard practice in the Baroque era for a male courtier to be schooled in the arts of dancing, acting, fencing, as well as play a musical instrument, not to mention that a gentlemen could wear a stylish tonnelet (hooped short skirt), and use a fan.
Terra Incognita (2006)
Nicole Helton, Denise Woods
Juliana Bertelsen
Frames (1991) — West Coast Premiere
Nancy Mathison, clarinet
Ervin Klinkon, ’cello
Eric Valinsky, piano
Sueños Castellanos (Dreams of Castile) (1991) — West Coast Premiere
Daniel Whitehead
Juliana Bertelsen, Christina Sanchez
