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November 19, 2008 at 2:49 am · Filed under dance, san francisco, san francisco ballet, california, san francisco ballet school, DYLAN
Since our first show (in Golden Gate Park) the trainee’s have done shows almost once a week. We performed a show for the major donors at the Napa Valley Opera House, a few shows at private schools in Marin County and San Francisco and most recently went to perform in Sacramento with another ballet school.
Its always interesting to see the reaction of high school students to their introduction to ballet. There is always a sort of awkward mood in the audience when the first guy in tights takes the stage but usually by the end of the piece they are all calm and hopefully have enjoyed the ballet. A lot of younger students have never really been introduced to the arts like ballet students have and sometimes I forget about this just because I have been around dance since I was 10 and live in a dorm of 24 other ballet dancers. It’s not that these people are ignorant (although some are) they just have not been introduced to the art of ballet. I think its important to show the variety of ballet to younger generations to show that its not the stereotype anymore of little girls in tutu’s. The Trainee program’s rep is so great because it is so broad and shows so many levels of ballet. We are doing “classical” ballet like Grand Pas Classique and Helgi Tomasson’s Menuetto , more “Neo-Classical” like Tomasson’s Handel: A Celebration and some very new and beautiful ballet’s done by Neumeier and Parrish Maynard.
Our Next Shows are 3 performances in the end of the month with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra’s Family Concert series in Berkley, San Mateo and San Francisco. We are performing 3 of Helgi’s ballets, Handel: A Celebration, 7 for Eight and Menuetto. I am dancing the male solo in Handel for two of the shows and I am really excited to be performing to a live orchestra for the first time. I hope that it will be exciting so wish me luck!
Here are a few photo’s from the past couple of weeks
The VERY small but very nice Napa Valley Opera House
Kristina Lind and Stephen Jacobson in Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight
Kristina Lind and Stephen Jacobson in Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight
Jordan Hammond , Steven Morse and Myles Thatcher in Helgi Tomasson’s Menuetto
Jordan Hammond and Myles Thatcher in rehearsal for Helgi Tomasson’s Menuetto
Stephen Jacobson, Dylan Ward and Harrison James Wynn rehearsing John Neumeier’s Yondering
Mattia Cambiaghi, Jordon Hammond and Myles Thatcher in Neumeier’s Yondering
Mattia Cambiaghi, Jordon Hammond and Myles Thatcher in Neumeier’s Yondering
Jordan Hammond and Koto Ishihara rehearsing
Steven Morse and Koto Ishihara in rehearsal
Kimberly Braylock and Harrison James Wynn in Edgar Zendejas’ Crumbling
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October 10, 2008 at 5:03 am · Filed under dance, san francisco, performing, san francisco ballet, performances, san francisco ballet school, DYLAN, dylan ward, helgi tomasson
So this is my first post for The Winger and I’m really exciting to share my experiences as a SFBS Trainee for the next year. The Trainee program is somewhat of a bridge between the gap of school and company. The Trainee program consists of 12 dancers from all over the world chosen by SF Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson and SFBS director Lola de Avila and is led by Jean-Yves Esquerre. We perform from October to May throughout northern California and also perform in the SFBS student showcase at the end of the school year.
Here are the this years trainees (Boys L to R: Dylan Ward, Harrison James Wynn, Stephen Jacobson, Mattia Cambiaghi, Myles Thatcher and Steven Morse)(Girls L to R: Jordan Hammond, Brynn Gilbert, Koto Ishihara, Kimberly Braylock, Kristina Lind, Sylvie Volosov)
Our first performance was this past Saturday at the grand opening of the California Academy of Sciences on this beautiful outdoor stage at Golden Gate Park. Here we performed Helgi Tomasson’s Menuetto, a pas de deux from Tomasson’s Handel: A Celebration, a contemporary pas de deux called Crumbling and Parrish Maynard’s Fractals.
One of the greatest parts of being a part of the program this year is originating a new role in Parrish Maynard’s new ballet, Fractals. The Trainee Director Jean-Yves Esquerre asked Parrish, who has choreographed for SFBS Student Showcase before, to create a contemporary ballet for the trainee’s this year. Fractals is about 15 minutes long in one movement and is performed by three couples and is set to exciting electronic music. Each couple has a separate pas de deux and and everyone has their own solo as well as several group dances.
This show was so much fun and i feel like it went really well considering we only started the school year less than a month before this show and practically fried our brains trying to remember all of the choreography. Here are some pictures from our first performance.
The outdoor stage in Golden Gate Park
Myles Thatcher, Jordan Hammond and Steven Morse in Helgi Tomasson’s Minuetto
James Wynn, Brynn Gilbert and Dylan Ward in Parrish Maynard’s Fractals
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October 10, 2008 at 12:35 am · Filed under dance, welcome, wingers, san francisco ballet, madison keesler, DYLAN, dylan ward, helgi tomasson, lola de avila, jean-yves esquerre
Hello Wingers!
I’d like to introduce you to our newest contributor, Dylan Ward.
As a new member of San Francisco Ballet’s Trainee Program, Dylan will continue the conversation from San Francisco, as his friend and fellow contributor Madison embarks on her new journey with the Hamburg Ballet.
Comprised of students from the most advanced level at the school, trainees are chosen by SFB Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, School Associate Director Lola de Avila and Trainee Program Supervisor Jean-Yves Esquerre. Dylan and his fellow trainees will have the opportunity to perform throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including understudying and dancing with the San Francisco Ballet.
We wish Dylan all the best for this exciting year and look forward to sharing the experience with him.
Welcome Dylan!
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