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THE COMPANY

Adam Sklute ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

THE WILLAM CHRISTENSEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHAIR SPONSORED BY PEGGY BERGMANN

Michael Scolamiero EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

THE ELIZABETH SOLOMON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHAIR

PRINCIPALS

Emily Adams, Katlyn Addison, Hadriel Diniz, Adrian Fry, Tyler Gum, Jenna Rae Herrera, David Huffmire, Amy Potter, Jordan Veit SOLOISTS

Dominic Ballard, Vinicius Lima, Rylee Ann Rogers, Victoria Vassos

DEMI-SOLOISTS

Lillian Casscells, Nicole Fannéy, Jacob Hancock, Joseph Lynch, Lexi McCloud, Jake Preece, Anisa Sinteral, Loren Walton

ARTISTS

Alexis Bull, Jazz Khai Bynum, Kai Casperson, Kye Cooley, Isabella Corridon, Jaya Dhand, Anderson Duhan, Maren Florence, Robert Fowler, Lund Fuller, Victor Galeana, Mikayla Gyfteas, Téa Hinchley, James Jobson-Larkin, Schuyler Lian, William Lynch, Jonas Malinka-Thompson, Kyra Stafford, Claire Wilson

BALLET WEST II

Carly Allyn, Olivia Book, Calder Feinstein, Soloman Fishman, Adrian Fite, Pieter Gunning, Callie Herbert, Mirin Hirano, Melanie McIntire, Mario Mery, Sophia Nanni, Aubri Parker, Mateo Salinas, ZÖe Wilson, Annalise Wood

Jane Victorine Wood PRINCIPAL REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Bruce Caldwell REHEARSAL DIRECTOR AND ARCHIVIST

Michael McCulloch PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Michele Gifford ASSISTANT REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

ARTISTIC STAFF

Jared Oaks MUSIC DIRECTOR

Pamela Robinson-Harris REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Jason Hadley DIRECTOR OF COSTUME PRODUCTION

Reuben Lehr ARTISTIC OPERATIONS MANAGER AND ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Courtney Hellebuyck STUDENT REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Michael Andrew Currey DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

Calvin Kitten DIRECTOR OF BALLET WEST II/ REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Liz Reams STAGE MANAGER AND PRODUCTION OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

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Board of Directors

GOVERNING BOARD

Chair

Jennifer S. Huntsman*

Vice Chair

Sarah Eccles Taylor*

Treasurer

Scott M. Huntsman*

Secretary

Rachele McCarthey, M.D.*

Artistic Director

Adam Sklute*

Executive Director

Michael Scolamiero*

EMERITUS BOARD

Dr. Viljia Avizonis

Frances Battle

Carol Carter

Michael Black*

Matthew Cardon-Bystry

Frank L. Corbett

J. Chase Dreyfous Jr.*

Marc A. Fuller

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Kristin Allred Stockham

Katie Tozer

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Dan Miller

John Miller

Amanda Simmons

Elizabeth (Beano) Solomon

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About Ballet West

From Balanchine to Bournonville, Petipa to Tharp, Ballet West boasts a rich and varied repertoire, elegant and versatile artists, and an American style and legacy that is as dynamic, expansive, and as unexpected as the Rocky Mountain region it represents. From its humble beginnings in 1963 as the only professional ballet company between Chicago and the West Coast, Ballet West has grown into one of America’s leading ballet companies. For 60 years, the Salt Lake City-based Company has entertained and excited audiences in Utah and worldwide by presenting the great classical story ballets, including America’s first and longest-running version of The Nutcracker, revivals of rarelyseen historical masterpieces, works by some of the world’s most renowned artists, and new cutting-edge creations by emerging choreographers. The Company also regularly tours both nationally and internationally.

Ballet West was established in Salt Lake City by co-founders Willam F. Christensen, often called the “Godfather of American ballet,” and Utah’s “First Lady of the Arts,” Glenn Walker Wallace. In 1951, Christensen established the first ballet department in an American university at The University of Utah. Over time, this program grew into the Utah Civic Ballet, Ballet West’s first incarnation. Prior to that, along with his brothers, Lew and Harold, Christensen made history by establishing the oldest full-ballet company in the western United States, the San Francisco Ballet. Since its inception, Ballet West has had five artistic directors, who have each helped build the Company’s unique and expansive profile – its founder, Willam Christensen, Bruce Marks, John Hart CBE, Jonas Kåge, and for the past 18 years, Adam Sklute, who has overseen the artistic product for the longest sustained growth of the Company since its founding. Ballet West continues to grow and evolve with 40 company members, 14 second company members, a thriving Academy, and one of the world’s largest ballet-based Education and Outreach programs, reaching over 152,000 children and adults throughout Utah and the Intermountain Region every year.

The Frederick Q. Lawson Ballet West (BW) Academy builds future ballet and dance artists and audiences by providing training in classical ballet, flamenco, character, contemporary, hip-hop, jazz, and theatrical dance training. The BW Academy has over 1,000 students between its four campuses - Salt Lake City, Trolley Corners, Park City, and Utah County. With newlyrenovated student housing, the BW Academy is home to local, national, and international ballet students, with more than 50% of BW Academy students joining Ballet West.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

LES NOCES (THE WEDDING)

Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra and Choir

Conductor: Jared Oaks

Vocal Soloists: Seth Keeton, Melissa Heath, Christopher Puckett, Jin-Xiang Yu

Pianists: Ruby Chou, Nicholas Maughan, Whitney Pizza, Vedrana Subotic

Intermission

THE DREAM (A BALLET IN ONE ACT)

Choreography: Frederick Ashton

Music: Felix Mendelssohn,* arr. by John Lanchbery

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra

Music Director: Jared Oaks

Soprano Soloists: Melissa Heath, Ruth Angerbauer

* By arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, agents for Bureau de Musique Mario Bois, publisher and copyright owner.

This performance lasts approximately one hour and 36 minutes, with one intermission.

ARTISTS OF BALLET WEST IN THE DREAM | PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

From the Artistic Director

Welcome to the second program of Ballet West’s 2025 - 26 season. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a double bill opening with Bronislava Nijinska’s masterpiece Les Noces (The Wedding) and Sir Frederick Ashton’s charming The Dream

In 1923, Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of the famed dancer Vaslav Nijinsky was emerging as a choreographer of groundbreaking vision. Her brother had already begun revolutionizing ballet with his startling choreography for such works as Debussy’s L’Apres Midi d’un Faun (Afternoon of a Faun) and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). His innovations in dance were strongly influenced by a new system– Dalcroz Eurhythmics which taught music and rhythm through movement, having different parts of the body moving separately to mirror the different parts of a piece of music. Nijinsky was also reenvisioning ballet by doing away with turned out legs and feet, elegant posture, and fluid use of the arms, creating a heavier, more angular and pedestrian ways of moving that was the antithesis of classical ballet. Nijinska in turn, took her brother’s innovations but chose to root them in a strong classical ballet technique that changed his revolutions into true choreographic concepts.

The Impresario Serge Diaghilev who founded and directed Paris’ legendary Les Ballets Russes, the company that assembled and nurtured some of the greatest artists, designers, composers, dancers, and choreographers of all time, took note of Nijinska and began entrusting her with more choreographic projects for the company. This was an unusual move for the early 20th Century. Hardly any ballet dance makers were women. But Diaghilev recognized Nijinska’s talent and her powerful, unique approach. So, when composer Igor Stravinsky came forward with a fascinating new oratorio for four solo singers, four pianos, a full chorus, and percussion, it was clear that Nijinska would be the one to choreograph it. Stravinsky’s idea for the Oratorio which he entitled Les Noces (“The Wedding” or more accurately “Those who Wed” in French) was to be a series of four tableaux depicting a Russian peasant wedding.

From the opening strains, where the bride mourns the fact that she must cut her long hair as was tradition; to the power of the groom’s friends and family blessing him; to the bride being taken from her family home and the pain and sadness that brings; and finally to the celebration where the merrymaking is more for the community than for the bride and groom who remain central and static wondering what their future will bring, the work brings out the inner feelings of the characters in a unique, abstract, and minimalist way.

For the sets and costumes, Diaghilev engaged another woman, expressionist artist Natalia Goncharova. Goncharova was known for her elaborate, ornate and colorful work. But Nijinska had a different vision for Les Noces. The ballet was to be stark and almost monochromatic with everyone dressed the same. One wonders if this was Nijinska’s statement on Communism and the USSR which had just been established the year before in 1922. She, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Goncharova and so many in the Ballets Russes were Russian expatriates who had fled the revolution. When Diaghilev finally saw Les Noces, he reportedly wept with joy and sadness for his homeland.

From the Artistic Director

Les Noces remains a seminal work in the history of ballet. Stravinsky’s score is very hard for a ballet company to perform live and I am thrilled that we are able to do so, thanks to our Music Director Jared Oaks, the marvelous singers he has assembled, and our brilliant Ballet West Orchestra musicians. Watch the intricate way Nijinska moves dancers around the stage. No one choreographer has ever created this degree of geometry before or after. And while the steps are not individually difficult per se, remembering their order to the complex rhythms of the music and the precision mixed with the aerobic repetition Nijinska demands of the entire cast makes this one of the most challenging works to perform.

The headlining ballet of the program is Sir Frederick Ashton’s 1964 one-act telling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which Ashton entitled The Dream Sir Fred (as he was affectionately known) created his version of Shakespeare’s magical, romantic comedy as part of the 400th Anniversary Celebration of William Shakespeare’s birth.

With The Dream, Ashton drastically trims down Shakespeare’s play, doing away with characters Theseus and Hypoptila and the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe, focusing the action more on the quarrel between Oberon and Titania (the king and queen of the fairies), the challenges of the four mismatched lovers, and Bottom, the leader of a group of rustics lost in the woods. By doing this, Ashton actually distills the story to its essence. He and designer David Walker set the story in the 1840’s – the time

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From the Executive Director

This November marks four years since Ballet West added a second program in the fall to our subscription series and by all measures doing so has been a remarkable success. While the added program immediately follows the opening program, audiences have responded enthusiastically to seeing a full-length narrative ballet followed by a program that is more contemporary in nature only weeks apart. Subscriptions have grown impressively since the pre-pandemic 2018-19 season, when Ballet West had 2,655 subscribers. At the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, there were 3,771 subscribers, a remarkable 42% increase!

Turning to the present, today’s program, which features two starkly different works, opens with Les Noces, Branislava Njinska’s seminal work created for the famed Ballets Russes in 1923 and premiered by Ballet West in 2023. The ballet tells the story of a Russian peasant wedding set to Stravinsky’s score, which uses four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos, and percussion. Les Noces was enthusiastically received upon entering Ballet West’s repertoire, thus accounting for its quick return to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre stage.

Closing the program is The Dream by the monumental British choreographer, Frederick Ashton. Ashton’s one-act telling of Shakespeare’s immortal play is among the great works in the repertory. Set to Felix Mendelssohn’s brilliant score, Ballet West had originally planned to preset The Dream in 2020, only to have it shelved when the pandemic necessitated its cancellation. Our production, which features exquisite scenery and costumes designed by David Walker, is among our most popular rentals to other companies.

The Nutcracker, America’s first by Ballet West founder Willam Christensen, is around the corner. With more than 300 children spanning four casts, The Nutcracker

From the Executive Director

continues to set attendance records due to its timelessness and focus on family and holiday traditions. The best seats are going fast, so please take a moment by visiting our website (balletwest.org) for your tickets. Be vigilant of ticket scams when purchasing tickets to The Nutcracker or any Ballet West production and do not purchase them through any outlet other than our website!

Thank you for joining us for this unique and entertaining program and for your continued support of one of America’s great ballet companies. We are unable to do what we do without your generosity and friendship!

Warm regards,

Michael Scolamiero

The Elizabeth Solomon Executive Director Chair

Michael Scolamiero joined Ballet West after an extensive international search led by Michael Kaiser, President Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Since that time, Scolamiero has played a key role in transforming the organization’s financial health, eliminating operating deficits and building a cash reserve. With a strong balance sheet, Ballet West no longer requires external financing to meet cash needs and is growing its endowment. Under his direction, Ballet West has purchased and operates residential housing in downtown Salt Lake City for students at the Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy.

ARTISTS OF BALLET WEST IN REHEARSAL FOR THE DREAM | PHOTO BY ROSS RICHEY

Casting

LES NOCES (THE WEDDING)

Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Scenic and Costume Design: Natalia Goncharova

Lighting: Kevin Dreyer, after Craig Miller

Scenic Artist: Dusty Terrell

Stagers: Howard Sayette and Cameron Basden

Vocal Soloists: Seth Keeton, Melissa Heath, Christopher Puckett, Jin-Xiang Yu

Pianists: Ruby Chou, Nicholas Maughan, Whitney Pizza, Vedrana Subotic

Featuring the Ballet West Orchestra and Choir

Music Director: Jared Oaks

World Premiere: June 13, 1923, Les Ballets Russes, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris

Utah Premiere: April 14, 2023, Ballet West, Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City

This ballet in four scenes depicts a Russian peasant wedding at the beginning of the Christian era, when pagan rituals were still retained as family traditions.

CASTING

First Tableau: Benediction of the Bride

While friends braid her hair, the young Bride laments the uncertainty of her arranged marriage. Though the maidens try to comfort her, the Bride sobs with fear. Her parents bless her.

Bride: Victoria Vassos/Anisa Sinteral (11/7, 11/8, 11/15 MAT)

Bride’s Parents: Amy Potter, Tyler Gum/Adrian Fry (11/8, 11/15 MAT)

Bride’s Friends: Alexis Bull, Jazz Khai Bynum, Lillian Casscells, Kye Cooley, Nicole Fannéy, Maren Florence, Kyra Stafford, Claire Spainhour

ARTISTS OF BALLET WEST IN LES NOCES | PHOTO BY BEAU PEARSON

Casting

Second Tableau: Benediction of the Groom

In the company of friends, the Bridegroom celebrates prior to his wedding day. His parents bless him.

Groom: Jake Preece

Groom’s Parents: Emily Adams, Hadriel Diniz

Groom’s Friends: Dominic Ballard, Kai Casperson, Anderson Duhan, Solomon Fishman, Adrian Fite, Robert Fowler, Lund Fuller, Pieter Gunning, Jacob Hancock, Jonas Malinka-Thompson, Mateo Salinas, Loren Walton

Third Tableau: Departure of the Bride from the Parental Home

The bride is escorted from her parents’ home by her friends and by her four matchmakers. The Bride’s mother laments the loss of her child.

First Tableau Cast with: Victor Galeana, James Jobson-Larkin, Schuyler Lian, Lexi McCloud/Isabella Corridon (11/8, 11/15 MAT)

Fourth Tableau: The Wedding Feast

Inside the “izba,” the newlyweds bid farewell to their parents in their new home. Villagers and guests celebrate the wedding feast. The Bridegroom promises the Bride a life of happiness.

Bride’s Friend: Rylee Ann Rogers/Lexi McCloud (11/8, 11/15 MAT)

Groom’s: Friend: Jordan Veit, Tyler Gum (11/8, 11/15 MAT)

Entire Cast with: Isabella Corridon, Mikayla Gyfteas, Schuyler Lian, Anisa Sinteral Anisa Sinteral (11/13, 11/15 EVE)/Victoria Vassos (11/7, 11/8, 11/15 MAT)), Jaya Dhand, Téa Hinchley

Intermission

Casting THE DREAM (A Ballet in One Act)

Choreography: Frederick Ashton

Music: Felix Mendelssohn*, arr. by John Lanchbery

Sets and Costumes: David Walker

Original Lighting Design: John B. Read

Lighting: Michael Mazzola

Staging: Patricia Tierney

Soprano Soloists: Ruth Angerbauer, Melissa Heath

* By arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, agents for Bureau de Musique Mario Bois, publisher and copyright owner.

World Premiere: The Royal Ballet, April 2, 1964, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Ballet West Premiere: September 18, 1985, Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Dream is performed by arrangement with The Frederick Ashton Foundation and is one of over 100 ballets created by Frederick Ashton (1904–1988). These performances are presented as part of the Ashton Worldwide 2024–2028 festival. For further information, visit frederickashton.org.uk

Synopsis

The King and Queen of Fairyland, Oberon and Titania, are quarreling over the changeling boy. Oberon sends his sprite Puck through the forest to fetch a strange flower, the juice of which, when dropped in the eyes during sleep, brings love for the first living thing seen on waking. Oberon plans to use this to spite Titania.

Into the forest have strayed a happy pair of lovers, Lysander and Hermia, and their two unhappy friends, Helena and Demetrius. Helena’s love for Demetrius is, at present, unrequited, for he mistakenly desires Hermia. Oberon has watched these mortals and, when Puck returns with the magic flower, sends him with some of the flower’s juice to charm Demetrius into love with Helena.

Oberon, meanwhile, drops some of the charm into his queen’s eyes and causes her to be awakened by a rustic called Bottom, on whom the returning Puck, to heighten his master’s revenge, has fixed an ass’s head. On waking, Titania falls in love, but Puck, for all his cleverness, has complicated the affairs of the mortal lovers by charming the wrong man, Lysander, into love with Helena. Oberon commands Puck to create a fog, under cover of which all is put right.

Titania, released from her spell, is reconciled to her master, and the mortal lovers are happily paired off. Bottom, restored to human form, but with dream-like memories of what lately happened, goes on his puzzled way. “I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called Bottom’s Dream.”

Casting

11/7, 11/13, 11/15 EVE

Titania Katlyn Addison

Oberon ......................................................................................................... Adrian Fry

Changeling Child Sean Yu (11/7-8)/Henry Taylor (11/13-11/15)

Puck ....................................................................................................... William Lynch

Bottom ................................................................................. Jonas Malinka-Thompson

Helena ...................................................................................................... Emily Adams

Hermia ................................................................................................. Victoria Vassos

Demetrius Hadriel Diniz

Lysander ............................................................................................. Dominic Ballard

Peasblossom Jazz Khai Bynum

Cobweb ................................................................................................ Maren Florence

Moth Rylee Ann Rogers

Mustardseed ........................................................................................... Lexi McCloud

Rustics ............................................... Kai Casperson, Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, Lund Fuller, James Jobson-Larkin

Fairies

Alexis Bull, Lillian Casscells, Kye Cooley, Isabella Corridon, Jaya Dhand, Nicole Fannéy, Mikayla Gyfteas, Téa Hinchley, Schuyler Lian, Anisa Sinteral, Claire Spainhour, Kyra Stafford

Casting

11/8, 11/15 MAT

Titania Jenna Rae Herrera

Oberon ....................................................................................................... Jordan Veit

Changeling Child ............................................Sean Yu (11/7-8)/Henry Taylor (11/13-11/15)

Puck ....................................................................................................... William Lynch

Bottom ................................................................................. Jonas Malinka-Thompson

Helena Rylee Ann Rogers

Hermia ................................................................................................ Lillian Casscells

Demetrius Tyler Gum

Lysander ................................................................................................. Loren Walton

Peasblossom

Claire Spainhour

Cobweb ................................................................................................ Maren Florence

Moth ........................................................................................................

Schuyler Lian

Mustardseed Isabella Corridon

Rustics .......................................................................Kai Casperson, Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, Lund Fuller, James Jobson-Larkin

Fairies

Carly Allyn, Alexis Bull,Jazz Khai Bynum, Kye Cooley, Jaya Dhand, Mikayla Gyfteas, Téa Hinchley, Melanie McIntire, Sophia Nanni, Anisa Sinteral, Kyra Stafford, Zoë Wilson

ARTISTS OF BALLET WEST THE DREAM REHEARSAL | PHOTO BY ROSS RICHEY

From the Artistic Director

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that Mendelsohn composed the music. By placing it in the mid-19th Century, Ashton creates a choreographic world that pays homage to Romantic era ballets such as Giselle, and La Sylphide, indeed a number of the steps and poses for the corps de ballet of fairies, echo these great classics. The lovers whole comedy of errors is approached as a Victorian farce and Oberon and Titania’s whole look and feel are clearly inspired by the fantasy illustrations of the time, such as artist Richard Dadd who was noted for his depictions of fairies and the supernatural.

Sir Fred created the lead characters of Oberon and Titania on two of his most beloved leading artists, the elegant and Mercurial Sir Anthony Dowell and the delicate and piquant Dame Antoinette Sibley and their gifts of speed, fluency and otherworldliness infuse the work with a breathtaking rush and heart-melting magic. The whole work is an elegant 55- minute miniature of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece. Ballet West first presented The Dream in the mid 1980’s under John Hart C.B.E. and this is my second revival of this work that is considered by many to be a perfect ballet.

I paired these two works together because of their subtle bond. Ashton was a student of Nijinska’s early on in his dancing career and her work, concepts, and ideas significantly influenced his own artistic vision. As Ashton began to choreograph, Nijinska mentored him and expanded his movement vocabulary. Ashton, in turn, played a crucial role in preserving Nijinska’s legacy by inviting her to mount her works Les Biches and Les Noces for The Royal Ballet when he was the company’s Artistic Director in the 1960s. Their relationship was one of deep mutual admiration, with Ashton acknowledging Nijinska as a major inspiration and a key figure in his development as a choreographer.

I hope you will enjoy this program that is, to me, great theater and a walk through the history of our beloved art form.

As always we are grateful for your patronage.

Adam Sklute

The Willam Christensen Artistic Director Chair

Ballet West Orchestra

Jared Oaks

MUSIC DIRECTOR

Violin

Aubrey Woods

Concertmaster

Kate Mayfield

Assistant Concertmaster

Krista Utrilla

Principal Second Violin

Ann Cox

Assistant Principal

Sara Bauman

Marcel Bowman

Melissa Draper

Emily Holmstead

Hannah Kwong

Kathy Langr

Hanna Packard

David Price

Kasia Sokol-Borup

Peggy Wheelwright

Viola

Sunny Johnson Principal

Candace Wagner

Mallory Todd

Erin Kipp

Lorraine Larson

Cello

Lauren Posey Principal

Cassie Olson

Robin Dunn

Lauren Miller

Ambrynn Bowman

Music

Igor Stravinsky

Les Noces

Jenn Sprague ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Bass

Matthew Shumway Principal

Justin Morgan

Ben Henderson

Flute/Piccolo

Alison Olsen Principal

Drew Powell

Oboe

Anna Larson Principal

Justin Torres

Clarinet

Erin Voellinger Principal

David Feller

Bassoon

Brian Hicks Principal

Christopher Egbert

Horn

Brian Blanchard Acting Principal

Nathan Basinger

Trumpet

Kyra Sovronsky Principal

Chris Danz

Lisa Verzella

Trombone

Nick Burnham Principal

Steve Hunter

Neil Hendriksen

Tuba

Michael Mccawley Principal

Timpani

Drew Fallon Principal

Percussion

Heath Wolf Principal

Tony Thackeray

For Les Noces Only

Timpani

Drew Fallon Principal

Percussion

Heath Wolf Principal

Bret Huges

Chelsea Jones

Shane Jones

Tony Thackeray

Nate Hurst

Felix Mendelssohn* (1809 – 1847), arr. John Lanchbery (1923 – 2003)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61

* By arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, agents for Bureau de Musique Mario Bois, publisher and copyright owner.

Ballet West Orchestra

JARED OAKS

Music Director

Jared Oaks, one of the leading young ballet conductors in the United States, is Music Director of Ballet West. Since joining the company in 2008, Jared has maintained a rigorous conducting schedule, in addition to playing for rehearsals and classes. He has conducted performances for Houston Ballet and The Sarasota Ballet, and he has worked with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, among others.

Jared’s numerous compositions include an oratorio about Joan of Arc, with poems by Suzanne Lundquist, and chamber ballets for Ballet West, Charlotte Ballet, and Mid-Columbia Ballet. Jared is also a fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and cofounder of the Composer Discovery Initiative.

AUBREY WOODS

Concertmaster

Aubrey Woods’ rise as a professional violinist vividly demonstrates the versatility that is the sine qua non for twentyfirst century musicians. Her artistic leadership and excellence as concertmaster for Ballet West are consistently on display at the Capitol, Rose Wagner, and Eccles theatres in Salt Lake City. She frequently performs with the Utah Symphony Orchestra. She appeared for several years with the Orchestra at Temple Square in weekly worldwide broadcasts and on recordings with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and notable soloists, including Bryn Terfel and Renée Fleming. Aubrey is equally in demand as a studio recording artist for movies, television, and in backing tracks for many popular artists.

Her performances as a chamber musician include appearances with NOVA, Intermezzo, the Park City Chamber Music Series and, on the Baroque violin, with New York Baroque Incorporated, the Sebastians, and Musica Angelica. She may often be heard in company with her husband, Alexander Woods, as the duo Woodsmith. In her free time, Aubrey loves making sourdough bread and spending time with her husband and their five kids.

BRONISLAVA NIJINSKA

Choreographer, Les Noces

Bronislava Nijinska (1891 – 1972) was a Russian-born dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg and joined the Mariinsky Theatre company in 1908. She then danced with the Ballets Russes in Paris from 1909, alongside her brother, Vaslav Nijinsky. She choreographed several ballets for the company, including Les Noces (1923), The Blue Train (1924), and Les Biches (1924). During the 1920s and 1930s, she created works for other companies, including her own (1932–37). In 1938, she moved to Los Angeles, where she opened a school while continuing to work as a guest choreographer into the early 1960s.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composer, Les Noces

Born in Russia, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) did not discover his musical talent until he enrolled in law school. There, under the influence of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky soon found the limelight in composing for Ballet Russes: Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). The latter work caused a celebrated scandal at its first performance and remains one of the best-known and most influential pieces of 20th century music. Stravinsky drew inspiration from a wide range of music, including contemporary artist Picasso, jazz movements in the United States, and a continuous interest in baroque and classical pieces. The restless, “spiky” rhythms and sharp, pungent harmonies run through Stravinksy’s work like an indelible musical fingerprint. These elements of his style, and the versatile ways in which he used them help to explain his status as one of the 20th century’s greatest composers.

NATALIA GONCHAROVA

Scenic and Costume Design, Les Noces

Natalia Goncharova (1881 – 1962) was a leading avantgarde artist in early 20th-century Russia. She gained recognition in the West through her set and costume designs produced for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. A painter, stage and costume designer, printmaker, and illustrator, Goncharova’s work spanned a range of modernist styles, including Futurism, Cubism, Rayonism, and Neo-Primitivism, finding inspiration in Russian folk art and often depicting group scenes of women.

SIR FREDERICK ASHTON

Choreographer, The Dream

Sir Frederick Ashton was born on September 17, 1904, and spent his early years in Peru, where his father was a diplomat. While at school in Lima, he first saw Anna Pavlova, an event which changed his life: he became determined to be ‘the greatest dancer in the world’. Ashton came to England when he was 15, as a boarder at Dover College, and left after three unhappy years. He started ballet lessons with Leonide Massine and eventually began to train full-time. When Massine left London, he sent Ashton to Marie Rambert, who saw his potential as choreographer and entrusted him with his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion. Ashton left Rambert for a year to dance with Bronislava Nijinska.

Upon his return he began choreographing regularly for Rambert and making work concurrently for Ninette de Valois and the Vic-Wells ballet. He left Rambert in 1935 to join de Valois permanently. His first major work for the Vic-Wells was the 1933 Les Rendezvous, made for Alicia Markova; when Markova left the company he focused his attention on her successor, Margot Fonteyn.

When the company moved to Covent Garden in 1946, Ashton made one of his greatest ballets, Symphonic Variations. Upon de Valois retirement in 1963, he became Director of the Royal Ballet, during which he invited Kenneth MacMillan to make a new Romeo and Juliet. His directorship ended in 1970, though he continued to make ballets for the company until a few years before his death. His last major work was Rhapsody, made for Baryshnikov in 1980. He died at his Suffolk home on August 19, 1988.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Composer, The Dream

During his brief life, Mendelssohn produced approximately 750 musical works in nearly every genre -- from solo songs and works for solo piano, to choral and chamber works, and to large scale orchestral works, oratorio and even opera. As a virtuoso pianist and organist, it is not surprising that nearly one quarter of his works are written for these instruments; of his piano works, the series of Lieder ohne Worte ("Songs without Words") are the most renowned. His approximately forty chamber works include five string quartets, three piano quartets (which were among his first published works), and the Octet of 1825, generally acknowledged as Mendelssohn's first masterwork. His choral works include both sacred works (psalm settings, motets, sacred cantatas, etc.) and secular compositions. Perhaps inspired by the sacred choral works of J.S. Bach and G.F.

Library of Congress, Music Division.

Handel, Mendelssohn's own oratorios, Paulus (St. Paul, 1836), Elijah (1847) and Christus (1847) proved to be the most successful and enduring oratorios produced during the nineteenth century. At the core of Mendelssohn's body of work stand his works for full orchestra, represented by five symphonies, two piano concertos, the widely admired Violin Concerto (op. 64, 1844), numerous tone poems and overtures, and the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which includes the famous recessional wedding march that is a musical fixture at nuptial ceremonies even today.

JOHN LANCHBERY

Arranger, The Dream

Born in London in 1923, Mr. Lanchbery was appointed musical director of Metropolitan Ballet in 1947. In 1951, he was named conductor of the Sadler’s Well Theatre Ballet. Ten years later, he was appointed principal conductor of The Royal Ballet, for whom he arranged many ballet scores. He left The Royal Ballet in1972 to become music director for The Australian Ballet. In 1976, he returned to The Royal Ballet as guest conductor to conduct his arrangement for the score of Sir Frederick Ashton’s A Month in the Country and later arranged, orchestrated and conducted the score for Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling. He died in Australia in 2003. Mr. Lanchbery’s long and distinguished career was marked by many honors, including the Bolshoi Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award from the Royal Academy of Dance, and Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to music.

DAVID WALKER

Sets and Costumes, The Dream

David Walker learned his craft as a costume designer in the cutting room at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He began his career working with Joan Littlewood in Liverpool and Stratford, London. Walker designed the Cinderella costumes for the Royal Ballet’s 1965 production. Walker’s many designs include the ballets of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Nutcracker, The Dream, Romeo and Juliet and La Sylphide, which have been performed throughout Europe and the U.S. His most recent design was of Giselle for Norwegian Ballet opened in 2009. Walker’s opera designs include Don Giovanni for Scottish Opera’s 1965 Edinburgh Festival, Cosi fan Tutte and Carmen for the Met, New York, Der Rosenkavalier, La Traviata, La Boheme, and William Tell in London at both the Royal Opera and the English National Opera in Europe. His theatre designs included Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance with the young Judi Dench and Donald

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Profiles

Sinden for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Beaux Stratagem and Undiscovered Country for the National Theatre, London. His films include The Charge of the Light Brigade and Lady Caroline Lamb.

HOWARD SAYETTE

Staging, Les Noces

Howard Sayette has enjoyed a distinguished career as a dancer, teacher and ballet master. Born in Los Angeles, his link to the ballets of the Diaghilev era began when he was a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, dancing in some of the great ballets of Massine, Fokine, and Balanchine. He continued his dancing career as a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and has worked with some of the 20th Century’s greatest choreographers, including Antony Tudor, Bronislava Nijinska, John Butler, Alvin Ailey, and Katherine Dunham. In 1972, Mr. Sayette began a 25-year association as ballet master for the Oakland Ballet Company, one of the few companies in the world to revive and maintain many of the great ballets of the Diaghilev repertoire. Among those works were five ballets by Nijinsky’s sister, Bronislava Nijinska, with whom he worked as guest artist for the Buffalo Ballet in 1969. He has since staged Nijinska’s Les Noces and Les Biches for many companies around the world, including the Mariinsky Ballet, a performance conducted by the theatre’s artistic director Valery Gergiev. Howard has also staged Eugene Loring’s Billy the Kid and Ruthanna Boris’s Cakewalk for major companies in the U.S. and abroad.

CAMERON BASDEN

Staging, Les Noces

Cameron Basden brings passion and spirit to her art as well as a keen sense of organization and integrity to the projects she undertakes. As a répétiteur for The Arpino Foundation she stages Arpino works throughout the U.S. Basden is co-founder and artistic/executive director of Miami Dance Hub, an organization created to unify the south Florida dance commonwealth, grow audiences, promote dance and to provide resources for dance related endeavors. After a performing career with the Joffrey Ballet, Basden served as rehearsal director and co-associate director of that company and then director of dance at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Basden was a muse for Gerald Arpino in the creation of his ballets and danced in a variety of styles by many noted choreographers. She participated in historical reconstructions as well as in new choreographic creations.

Profiles

Basden worked on the PBS filming for their Dance in America series of Billboards, and oversaw the filming and staging of the ballets in Save the Last Dance. Basden’s television credits include the Dance in America series Homage to Diaghilev and The Search for the Rite of Spring. She portrayed herself in Robert Altman’s movie, The Company. While continuing her role as master instructor, director and répétiteur, Basden serves on the board of The Arpino Foundation, the advisory board for DanceNow! Miami, and served on the Cultural Arts Committee for the World OutGames Miami 2017. She is the dance writer for miamiartzine and Artburst Miami.

PATRICIA TIERNEY

Staging, The Dream

Born in Leicester, Patricia Tierney trained at Bush Davies School and The Rambert Academy, followed by a freelance period of choregraphing and teaching and studying Benesh Movement Notation (BMN) at the Benesh Institute London, graduating with AI Chor. In 1987 she joined the Hamburg Ballet as Choreologist under the direction of John Neumeier, working on both new creations and revivals, she also given early opportunities to re-stage Neumeier’s ballets in Europe and USA.She returned to England in 1992 to work as Choreologist at English National Ballet before joining Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1993 as Dance Notator. In 2023 she was promoted to Répétiteur/ Benesh Choreologist.

Using BMN she has recorded, assisted, taught and lead rehearsals of many new ballets and revivals of works across Birmingham Royal Ballet’s repertoire, as well as staging the choreography of Sir Frederick Ashton: Enigma Variations, Dante Sonata, The Dream; Sir David Bintley: Carmina burana, Cinderella, E=mc², Faster, Still Life at the Penguin Café, The Shakespeare Suite; Stanton Welch: Powder, for various companies in Australia, Europe, Japan,and the USA.

KEVIN DREYER

Lighting,

Les Noces

Kevin Dreyer is on the faculty of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame where he serves as Director of Theatre, teaches and designs Lighting. During the late 1970s he served as Production Stage Manager for the Nikolai’s Dance Theatre where he was responsible for recreating all of Alwin Nikolai’s designs while literally touring the world. He left the company in 1984 to launch a freelance design career which took him all across the U.S. and overseas. He joined Joffrey Ballet of Chicago as Lighting Director during its

40th anniversary season. During his almost 10 years with the company he oversaw all of the lighting, including in the Robert Altman film, The Company, and designed Gerald Arpino’s last works. Most recently he has designed for Notre Dame Theatre, the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare, and Giordano Dance in Chicago. He last worked with Ballet West during their performances at Wolf Trap, VA. Kevin lives in northern Indiana with his wife and three daughters.

MICHAEL MAZZOLA

Lighting Design, The Dream

Michael Mazzola’s critically acclaimed lighting and scenery has been seen in venues all over the U.S., Europe, and Asia, ranging from opera houses to amphitheaters to circus tents to hay barns. The threetime New York Dance and Performance Award winner has designed lighting and scenery for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Whim W’Him of Seattle, Queensland Ballet, National Ballet of Finland, Stuttgart Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Ballet West, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Trey McIntyre Project, The Washington Ballet, Houston Ballet, Rachel Tess Dance at the Wanas Foundation in Sweden, Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC and LMCC’s River to River Festival, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Bebe Miller Company—with whom he has worked since the mid-eighties, and the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.Mazzola has lighting and video for the 2015 Presidential Scholars Awards, along with two Comedy Central Celebrity Roasts and the 2015 Lincoln Awards at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall for Uplight, Inc, based in NYC. Some of his performance photography has been published in Liz Lerman’s book Hiking the Horizontal, as well on websites and marketing materials for Bebe Miller Company and Rachel Tess Dance.

RUBY CHOU

Pianist, Les Noces

Dr. Ruby Chou is a classical pianist and educator based in Salt Lake City with a background in the nonprofit and higher education sectors. She has performed with the Ballet West Orchestra in recent productions of Prokofiev’s Cinderella and Copland’s Rodeo. In addition to her music career, she leads proposal development at FranklinCovey, a global leadership and development firm founded on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Dr. Chou earned her doctorate degree from UT Austin, with additional degrees from Manhattan School of Music and The University of Utah. Born in Taiwan, she emigrated to the United States at age six and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Profiles

MELISSA HEATH

Vocal Soloist, Les Noces

Soprano Melissa Heath enjoys a varied career of opera, concert, and recital work. Hailed as a “soaring, sparkling soprano” with “vivacious stage presence,” recent opera roles include Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen. In 2017 she was the soprano soloist with Ballet West in choreographer Nicolo Fonte’s world premiere of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a role she reprised with both Ballet West and Nevada Ballet Theater in 2022. Ms. Heath is an Associate Professor of music and the Voice Area Coordinator in the Department of Music at Utah Valley University.

SETH KEETON

Vocal Soloist, Les Noces

Bass-baritone Seth Keeton’s performances have been described by The New York Times as “driven,” and “emotionally pointed,” and “stentorian” by Opera News. He has performed roles on the stages of opera companies throughout the United States, and Theater Bremen in Bremen, Germany. In 2006, he was a national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has received awards from the Sullivan Foundation and the Eleanor McCollum Competition.

Dr. Keeton received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota and is an Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Utah.

NICHOLAS MAUGHAN

Pianist, Les Noces

A ‘fluid’ performer (Utah Arts Review), Nicholas Maughan’s heartfelt performances have charmed audiences nationwide. His passion for music is evident in his extensive stage experience, whether he’s conducting a musical theater pit, playing a pops concert under the stars, or performing Chopin Nocturnes in a concert hall. Recent performances include collaborations with Houston Ballet, Ballet West, Utah Symphony and Utah Opera, and Pioneer Theatre Company.

WHITNEY PIZZA

Pianist, Les Noces

A Salt Lake City native, Whitney Pizza received a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, after completing a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music in piano performance from the University of Utah. Her teachers include Dr. Vera Oussetskaia Watanabe, Dr. Marc Silverman, and Dr. Bonnie Gritton. Dr. Pizza is on the piano faculty at the Gifted Music School. She previously held adjunct faculty positions at Utah Valley University and Snow College.

CHRISTOPHER PUCKETT

Vocal Soloist, Les Noces

Tenor Christopher Puckett is thrilled to return to Ballet West after appearing last season as the tenor soloist in Nicolo Fonte’s production of Carmina Burana, a role which he then reprised at Nevada Ballet Theatre. Other recent credits include the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Salt Lake Choral Artists, as well as both the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the 138th Annual Messiah Festival of the Arts. Equally at home on the operatic stage, Dr. Puckett has sung leading roles in such operas as The Turn of the Screw, Così fan tutte, Cendrillon, La Sonnambula, Don Giovanni, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Vocal Studies at Westminster College.

VEDRANA SUBOTIC

Pianist, Les Noces

Croatian American pianist Vedrana Subotić has delighted audiences in hundreds of concerts across North and South Americas, Europe, and Asia. She has performed over five hundred works in the solo, chamber, and concerto genres and has been praised by critics for delivering performances that are “superb, intuitive, and astute.” Subotić has also been noted for audience outreach and interactive concert formats. Recent performances include concertos by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Beethoven, complete chamber works with piano by Beethoven and Brahms, and recitals of Beethoven and Liszt sonatas. An admirer of contemporary music, Subotic frequently commissions and performs new works, and has recorded for the Sony and Centaur labels. Her acclaimed 2024 solo piano album “Chiaroscuro” made it to the 2025 GRAMMY FYC list.

JIN-XIANG YU

Vocal Soloist, Les Noces

Raised in Japan, 郁金香 (Jin-Xiang Yu) is a soprano/ mezzo-soprano with roots from China, Japan, Korea, and Russia. She grew up in a family of musicians and painters, speaking Japanese and Mandarin Chinese while learning English and Spanish at international schools. Her artistic journey started with ballet, piano, and jazz trumpet, and her commitment to vocal studies developed during her collegiate studies in linguistics. When not on stage, she works as a film/commercial actor, teaches at her private studio, Studio JX, teaches musical theatre at Utah Dance Institute and is an owner of Yoga Sunné. JX holds a Musical Theatre degree (American Musical and Dramatic Academy), a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics (CUNY Queens College), a Bachelor of Music (Aaron Copland School of Music), and a Master of Music (Yale School of Music).

EMILY ADAMS

Newtown, Pennsylvania

Ballet West II 2005, Artist 2007, Demi-Soloist 2011, Soloist 2013, Principal Artist 2015

SPONSORED BY THE JANET QUINNEY LAWSON FOUNDATION

ADRIAN FRY

Omaha, Nebraska

Artist 2010, Soloist 2012, First Soloist 2014, Principal Artist 2017

Principal Artists

KATLYN ADDISON

Ontario, Canada

Artist 2011, Demi-Soloist 2014, Soloist 2016, First Soloist 2018, Principal Artist 2021

TYLER GUM

Calhan, Colorado

Ballet West II 2009, Artist 2010, Demi-Soloist 2014, Soloist 2016, First Soloist 2018, Principal Artist 2023

JENNA RAE HERRERA

Ontario, California

Ballet West II 2007, Artist 2010, Demi-Soloist 2015, Soloist 2016, First Soloist 2020, Principal Artist 2021

Principal Artists

DAVID HUFFMIRE

Reno, Nevada

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2014, Ballet West II 2016, Artist 2018, Soloist 2022, Principal Artist 2024

SPONSORED BY THE FREDERICK QUINNEY LAWSON FOUNDATION

AMY POTTER

Roanoke, Virginia

Ballet West II 2011, Artist 2012-2014, Soloist 2021, Principal Artist 2022

SPONSORED BY CAROLE WOOD AND DARRELL HENSLEIGH

JORDAN VEIT

Seattle, Washington

Ballet West II 2012, Artist 2013, Demi-Soloist 2016, Soloist 2018, Principal Artist 2022

Soloists

DOMINIC BALLARD

Albury, NSW, Australia

Artist 2017, Demi-Soloist 2022, Soloist 2025

Demi-Soloists

LILLIAN CASSCELLS

Washington, D.C.

Artist 2017, Demi-Soloist 2024

NICOLE FANNÉY

Cary, North Carolina

Ballet West Academy

Trainee 2017, Ballet West II 2018, Artist 2020, Demi-Soloist 2023

SPONSORED BY JENNIFER AND GIDEON MALHERBE

LEXI MCCLOUD

North Salt Lake, Utah

Ballet West II 2022, Artist 2024, Demi-Soloist 2025

SPONSORED BY SAMANTHA STECHSCHULTE & JORDAN ATKIN

JAKE PREECE

Vancouver, Canada

Ballet West II 2016, Artist 2019, Demi-Soloist 2022

JACOB HANCOCK

Lehi, Utah

Ballet West Academy 2017, BWA Trainee 2018, Ballet West II 2020, Artist 2022, Demi-Soloist 2025

ANISA SINTERAL

Parker, Colorado

Ballet West II 2014, Artist 2015-2019, Artist 2021, Demi-Soloist 2025

SPONSORED BY MICHAEL BLACK AND KIMBERLY STRAND

JOSEPH LYNCH

Cumberland, Rhode Island

Ballet West II 2017, Artist 2019, Demi-Soloist 2025

LOREN WALTON

Austin, Texas

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2019, Ballet West II 2020, Artist 2022, Demi-Soloist 2025

SPONSORED BY MADELEINE P. AND HARVEY R. PLONSKER

ALEXIS BULL

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Ballet West II 2023, Artist 2024

ISABELLA CORRIDON

Westport, Connecticut

Ballet West II 2019, Artist 2021

SPONSORED BY JONATHAN AND AMANDA SCHMIEDER

ROBERT FOWLER

Kennewick, Washington

Ballet West II 2018, Artist 2021

Corps Artists

JAZZ KHAI BYNUM

Germantown, Maryland

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2018, Ballet West II 2019, Artist 2021

ANDERSON DUHAN

Holliday, Texas

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2019, Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

LUND FULLER

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy 2011, BWA Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023, Artist 2025

KAI CASPERSON

Logan, Utah

Ballet West Academy 2017, BWA Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023, Artist 2024

JAYA DHAND

San Diego, California

Ballet West II 2023, Artist 2025

VICTOR GALEANA

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy 2013, BWA Trainee 2020, Ballet West II 2022, Artist 2025

KYE COOLEY

Bowie, Maryland

Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

SPONSORED BY JENNIFER PRICE-WALLIN AND TONY WALLIN

MAREN FLORENCE

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy 2012, BWA Trainee 2020, Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

MIKAYLA GYFTEAS

Anchorage, Alaska

Ballet West Academy 2020, BWA Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023, Artist 2024

Corps Artists

TÉA HINCHLEY

Castle Rock, Colorado

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2024

JAMES JOBSON-LARKIN

New York City, New York

Artist 2024

SCHUYLER LIAN

Wayne, Pennsylvania

Ballet West II 2022, Artist 2024

WILLIAM LYNCH

San Diego, California

Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

JONAS MALINKATHOMPSON

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ballet West Academy 2012, BWA Trainee 2020, Ballet West II 2021, Artist 2023

CLAIRE SPAINHOUR

Longview, Texas

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2017, Ballet West II 2019, Artist 2021

Ballet West II

CARLY ALLYN

San Diego, California

Ballet West Academy 2022, BWA Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2025

ADRIAN FITE

Dallas, Texas

Ballet West Academy 2021, BWA Trainee 2022, Ballet West II 2024

MELANIE MCINTIRE

Scottsdale, Arizona

BWA Trainee 2024, Ballet West II 2025

OLIVIA BOOK

Ontario, Canada

Ballet West Academy 2019, BWA Trainee 2021, Ballet West II 2023

PIETER GUNNING

Netherlands

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2025

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Ballet West Academy Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2025

San Antonio, Texas

Ballet West Academy 2021, BWA Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2025

CALDER FEINSTEIN

Los Angeles, California

Ballet West II 2025

Los Gatos, California

Ballet West Academy 2020, BWA Trainee 2022, Ballet West II 2024

Miami, Florida

Ballet West II 2024

ZOË

Westchester, New York

Ballet West Academy 2021, BWA Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2025

SOLOMON

Boston, Massachusetts

Ballet West Academy 2018, BWA Trainee 2022

Ballet West II 2025

Tokyo, Japan

Ballet West II 2024

Frisco, Texas

Ballet West II 2025

Windsor, Colorado

BWA Trainee 2023, Ballet West II 2025

MARIO MERY

SOPHIA NANNI

AUBRI PARKER

FISHMAN

CALLIA HERBERT

MIRIN HIRANO

MATEO SALINAS

WILSON

ANNALISE WOOD

In Memoriam

THEODORE G. "TED" SCHMIDT

Ballet West mourns the loss of a beloved friend, Theodore G. “Ted” Schmidt, Jr., 99, of Salt Lake City, who passed away peacefully at home on September 15, 2025. He was one of Ballet West’s most loyal and devoted patrons, and his impact on Ballet West will be felt for many years to come.

Born on September 4, 1926, in Bottineau, North Dakota, Ted was the eldest son of Marion and Theodore G. Schmidt, Sr. The family later moved to Jamestown, ND, where Ted spent what he called the golden years of his youth. At 14, the family relocated to Scottsbluff, NE, and Ted was later sent to Onarga Military School in Illinois. Ted attended the University of Colorado, joined Phi Delta Theta, and earned a business degree before completing an MBA at New York University. He began his career at J.C. Penney in Seattle but soon joined the U.S. Army. While visiting his parents in Ogden, UT, he was set up on a blind date with Elizabeth “Liz” Ellis. They married in 1952, and Ted adopted Liz’s daughter, Betsy. Together they had two more children: Ted III and Sandefur. Ted and Liz were married 60 years until her passing in 2012.

Ted’s career with J.C. Penney led the family across the country, from Virginia and Philadelphia to various cities in Washington, California, and Illinois. Later, he took an international assignment in Kobe, Japan—an experience he and Liz cherished, making lifelong friends and discovering a passion for travel.

Upon returning to the U.S., Ted managed the Concord, CA store and settled in a Japanese-style home in Diablo, CA, where he and Liz lived for nearly 30 years. After early retirement from Penney’s, Ted joined his son in running several luggage and gift stores, including “Elizabeth’s.”

In 2006, Ted and Liz moved to Salt Lake City to be near extended family, where they treasured frequent family gatherings and felt truly at home. Ted joined Rotary, supported the arts, and quickly built a fulfilling life, attending symphony, ballet, and opera performances. He enjoyed sponsoring Ballet West dancers, and getting to know them and their families gave him great joy.

After Liz’s passing, Ted adjusted to life on his own with grace and purpose. He traveled with his daughters, remained active in Rotary, supported the arts, and spent cherished summers at Bear Lake with Liz’s extended family. He was especially proud of mentoring young people, a role he embraced well into his later years.

Ted will be remembered for his warmth, generosity, sharp mind, and lifelong dedication to family, service, and learning.

Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy

The Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy, the official school of Ballet West, is Utah’s premier source of dance training, providing the highest caliber of ballet instruction to professionally-bound students, as well as to those who simply wish to enjoy this beautiful and athletic art form. Academy students experience a structured curriculum offered in a nurturing, respectful, and positive environment, celebrating and exploring each student’s individual strengths and abilities.

The Ballet West Academy and its distinguished faculty is led by Evelyn Cisneros-Legate, an ever-growing and dynamic leader in the international field of dance. Pre-professional students are given the unique opportunity to be observed regularly and take classes with Ballet West Artistic Director Adam Sklute, and are considered for future positions with Ballet West. Avocational students build strength, coordination, and confidence through focused and joyous top-level dance education.

Classes begin at age three and are available at four locations: The Jessie Eccles Quinney Ballet Centre, Trolley Corners, Utah County, and Park City.

frederick quinney lawson ballet west academy director evelyn cisneros-legate

janet eccles quinney ballet centre and trolley corners campuses principal katherine lawrence | photo by joshua whitehead

ballet west academy utah county campus principal heather thackeray

ballet west academy peggy bergmann park city campus principal allison debona

ballet west academy men's program director jeff rogers

Wellness Partners

We are thankful for all the medical professionals who are committed to helping our dancers perform their best and stay injury-free.

OFFICIAL HEALTH PARTNER OF BALLET WEST

Dr. Claire Gross, MD, CAQSM

Jennifer Bentley, PT, DPT, OCS

Mary Bastian, MS, LAT, ATC

Gina Wojnar, DPT

Betsy Johnson MS ATC, Pilates

Sarah Poulsen, Pilates

Ashley Hagensick, Sports Dietitian

Tony Kemmochi, PsyD

Dr. Jeremy Wimmer

Executive Committee:

President: Jennifer Malherbe

Vice President: Brent Jensen

Immediate Past President: Helle LeRette

Secretary: Cyndalynn Tilley

Treasurer: Patricia Buckley

Leadership Council:

Awards Co-Chairs: Kathleen Gardner and Ellen Tolstad

Dancer Liaisons: Lesia Hunter, Jeanne Potucek and Julie Terry Shulimson

Fall Membership Event Co-Chairs: Susan Daynes and Jan Leaming

Film & Breakfast Club Chair: Daniel Darger

Membership Chair: Anne Neeley

Nominating Co-Chairs: Daniel Darger and Tami Hansen

Nutcracker Giving Tree Chair: Nancy Wingelaar

Outreach Chair: Doyle Clayburn

Park City Membership Chair: Franki Loftus

Parliamentarian: Susie Funk

Robert Arbogast Scholarship Chair: Dee Gauss

Spring Ballet in Bloom Co-Chairs: Leslie Edwards and Carole Wood

Summer Welcome Back Chair: Trisha Kirkbride

Ex-Officio:

Ballet West Artistic Director: Adam Sklute

Ballet West Executive Director: Michael Scolamiero

Board of Directors Chair: Jennifer Horne Huntsman

• Service, Repair, Parts, Tires

• Complete Pre-Owned Sales Department

• Professional Detailing

• Family Owned & operated

• Best Warranty in town–3 year/36,000 miles on most repairs

Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support

We thank the following community partners for their annual and multi-year contributions.

$500,000 AND ABOVE

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks (ZAP)

The Meldrum Foundation

Utah State Board of Education: POPS

$250,000 - 499,999

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Intermountain Health 

$100,000 - 249,999

Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation

Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation

The Kahlert Foundation

S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

Utah Division of Arts & Museums

Utah Toyota Dealers

$25,000 - 99,999

B. W. Bastian Foundation

Bank of America

Beaver Creek Foundation

Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundation

Cache Valley Bank

Grand America Hotel*

David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation

JoAnne L. Shrontz Family Foundation

John and Sonia Lingos Family Foundation

John C. Kish Foundation

Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foundation

Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation

Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation

Mark Miller Toyota

Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

McCarthey Family Foundation

Moreton & Company

Sorenson Legacy Foundation

Summit County RAP Cultural Grant

The Florence J. Gillmor Foundation

Utah Office of Tourism

$10,000 - 24,999

Adobe

Ballet West Guild

CompuNet, Inc.

Clyde Companies

Every Blooming Thing*

Fuse Weddings*

Goldman Sachs

Hilton Salt Lake City Center*

Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation

Merit Medical

Miller Family Philanthropy

Montage International*

Morgan Stanley

Norman C. Tanner and Barbara L. Tanner Second Charitable Support Trust

Pathway Group

R. Harold Burton Foundation

Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

Ruth’s Chris Steak House*

Simmons Family Foundation

Skylark Productions*

So Danca 

O.C. Tanner

Williams Companies

Dr. Jeremy Wimmer and Summit Chiropractic & Wellness*

Youth United of Park City Community Foundation

$5,000 - 9,999

Anonymous

Gourmandise*

Grandeur Peak Global

Ivy & Varley*

J. Wong’s

Laurel Brasserie and Bar*

Mountain West Brands*

Jerome Robbins Foundation

Salt Lake City Arts Council

Salt Lake Power Yoga

Stewart Education Foundation

The KP Group*

Twelve30 Creative*

Utah Hockey Club*

$1,000 - 4,999

Avenues Sweets*

BACHD*

Elevated Charter School

Galeano’s Ristorante Italiano

Henry W. and Leslie M. Eskuche Foundation

Hugo Boss Fashions, Inc

Laziz Kitchen*

Lunatic Fringe*

Mountain America Credit Union

Ray Quinney & Nebeker Foundation

Rowan

Sparkle Photography*

Spencer Fane Snow Christensen & Martineau Foundation

Utah Facial Plastics*

The above lists includes corporate, foundation, and government support received as of September 17, 2025

* Indicates contribution made in-kind

 Indicates contribution made cash and in-kind

Individual Donors

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE

We thank our Founder’s Circle donors, each of whom has given significantly to the company throughout its history, either through collective annual giving or extraordinary, one-time gifts.

B.W. Bastian Foundation

Peggy Bergmann

Val A. Browning Foundation

George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

The Kahlert Foundation

Jennifer S. and Scott Huntsman

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation

Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation

The Meldrum Foundation

John and Andrea Miller

John and Marcia Price Family Foundation

S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation

Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP)

Shari and David Quinney

Beano Solomon

Theodore G. Schmidt, Jr.

Utah Division of Arts & Museums

Utah State Board of EducationProfessional Outreach Programs in the School

Anonymous

HERITAGE CLUB

We are grateful to our generous donors for their annual gifts and multi-year contributions.

MR. C.

$100,000 AND ABOVE

The Bené Arnold Estate

Peggy Bergmann*

The DiFiore Family

The Ellis Family

Jennifer S. and Scott Huntsman

Barbara Levy Kipper and the Kipper Family Foundation

Frederick Q. Lawson

John and Andrea Miller

Shari H. and David Quinney

Theodore G. Schmidt, Jr. *

Beano Solomon

John and Marcia Price and the Price Family

Anonymous

$50,000 - $99,999

Vilija Avizonis and Gregory McComas

Samantha Topping Gellert and John Gellert

Stephanie and Tim Harpst

Kimberly and Jay Heglar

The Sam & Diane Stewart Family Foundation

Brad and Linda Walton

Anonymous

MRS. WALLACE

$25,000 - $49,999

Drew W. Browning in memory of Judy Watts Brady

The Estate of Dorothy B. Cromer

J. Chase Dreyfous Jr.

W. Hague & Sue J. Ellis Foundation

Courney Miller Hawks and Jason Hawks

Michael and Kimberly Labertew

Caryl Marsh

Athelia Woolley LeSueur and Carl LeSueur

Rachèle McCarthey and Brock Van de Kamp

David Parkinson

Eileen Ragsdale

Jonathan and Liz Slager

Kristin and Tom Stockham

Ms. Taylor Swift, The Charitable Fund of the Comm Fdn of Midd Tenn

Anonymous (2)

PRINCIPAL

$15,000 - 24,999

Samantha Stechschulte and Jordan Atkin

Frank and Leslie Corbett

Marc and Cammy Fuller

Stephanie and Tim Harpst

George W. Henry, Jr. and James Rose

Heidi Huntsman and Mark Robinson

Tatiana Lingos-Webb Prince and Matthew Prince

Jennifer and Gideon Malherbe

The Fromer-McCree Living Trust

Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker

Jeanne Potucek

Jennifer Price-Wallin and Anthony R. Wallin

Shauna Bamberger Priskos

Kelley and Kevin Rogge

Jonathan and Amanda Schmieder

Sharon Seiner

Teresa Silcox

Adam Sklute and Christopher Renstrom

Norman C. Tanner and Barbara L. Tanner Second Charitable Support Trust

The John D. & Vera E. Eccles Family Foundation

Roy and Lisa Vincent

Julia S. Watkins

Carole Wood and Darrell Hensleigh

Anonymous

FIRST SOLOIST

$10,000 - 14,999

Ballet West Guild

H. Brent and Bonnie Jean Beesley

Michael Black and Kimberly Strand

Phil and Kimberly Cox

James Dreyfous

Erik and Uzo Erlingsson

Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. E. Dean Hamblin

Elizabeth Huntsman and Eduardo Hernandez

Brent, Maren and Remus Jensen

Katherine Daines Lindsay

Alison and Paul Mayfield

The Fromer-McCree Living Trust

Marcia JS Richards

Mark and Melanie Robbins

Michael Scolamiero

Eddie Stone

Katherine Tozer

Naoma Tate and the Family of Hal Tate

The John D. & Vera E. Eccles Family Foundation

Dylin Webster and KT Herr

Holly Yocom

Molly Young

Anonymous (2)

SOLOIST

$5,000 - 9,999

Clisto and Suzanne Beaty

Amanda and Winston Bokor

Carol T. Christ

Linda S. Daines

John and Joan Firmage

Weston Firmage

Charlie and Shannon Freedman

Stacy Goebel

David and SandyLee Griswold

Drs. Marc and Mary Carole Harrison

Florian Hernandez and Brian Parcell

Kathie and Charles Horman

Karin Hurst

Ryan Kelly

Jeanne M. Kimball

Shari and Bruce Lindsay

David Luker

James MacInnes

Brooke Mangum

John and Bria Mertens

Scott and JoAnn Narus

Eva and David Neeleman

Anne Neeley

Stephen and Melina Nicolatus

The KP Group

Jeanie Pollack

Ashley Quai and Stephen Farrell

Chris and Ellen Rossi

Sandefur Schmidt

Shiebler Family Foundation

Jacey Skinner

Ashley and Ryan Smith

Ruth Stone

Nadine Tang

Susan Warshaw

Kathy Warren and Luigi Resta

Anne Wilson and Peter Lawson

Vanessa DiPalma and Jeffrey Wright

Edward Zipser

DEMI-SOLOIST

$3,000 - 4,999

Chimgee Anderson

Erica and Shade Anderson

Tika Beard and Cathy Harlin

Sandi Behnken

Matthew Bero

Pamela and Quarry Bingham

Brett Campbell

Helen and Jeffrey Cardon

Donna Conway

Michael Davies

Matt and Nancy Dorny

Natalie DuPaix

Susan and Joel Eaton

Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation

Branden and Celine Fini

Barbara W. Frazier

John and Ilauna Gurr

Laura Holleman

Steve and Florie Jackson

Helen Kennedy

Jill and Peter Koziol

Helle Le Rette

Paul and Melanie Lyon

Dr. John Macfarlane

Heidi and Edward Makowski

Thomas and Mary McCarthey

Dan P. Miller

Trevor Nielson

Elizabeth and Vincent Novack

Tomi Jean Ossana and Chris Proctor

Rich and Nancy Potashner

Margaret P. Sargent

Michael Scolamiero

Laura Scott and Rodney Mena

Marilyn M. Smolka

Kenneth Spitzer and Diana Stafforini

Sue and Jack Stahl

Kevin Voyles

Donald and Barbara Walker

Casey Weyland

Jay and Alicia Wilson

Bethany Wojtech and Marc Korman

Jo-Ann Wong

CORPS DE BALLET

$2,000 - $2,499

Antinea Ascione

Carol Baer

Frances and Jerome Battle

Vicki and Bill Bennion

Melissa Blair

Ginny Bostrom

Keith Frederick and Patricia Buckley

Cecile and Harold Christiansen

Elinor and Martin Colman

Laurie Conklin

Wilma Corkery and John R. Corkery III M.D.

Matthew Crane

Klancy de Nevers

Pascale De Rozario and Jonathan Crossett

Eleanor Divver

Dr. Frances Dolloph

Metta Driscoll

Richard and Pamela Dropek

Dr. Angela Dunn

John Eckert

Amanda Essex

Hot Shot Sprinkler Repair & Landscape LLC

Tracy Frankel

Karen L. Freed

Bob and Mary Gilchrist

Julie and Devon Glenn

Andrew and Barbara Goldberg

Andrea Golding

Natalie and Ted Grandy

Elizabeth and Jack Hammond

Kenneth and Kate Handley

Jon and Tami Hansen

Vicki and Ronald Hauben

Jason and Amy Hawkins

Michael and Kathryn Hayes

Mark and Wendi Holland

Julie Hopkins

Robert and Dixie Huefner

David P. Heuvel and Johann Jacobs

Marilyn and Chester Johnson

Adam and Jessie Justis

Kathleen and Jack Karmel

Melissa Knighton

Robert and Karla Knox

The Kohlburn/Lecointre Family

Katherine Probert Labrum

Brandon Labrum

Dr. Michael and Kimberly Lee

Julie Lewis

Franki Loftus

Sarah Lowe

Nancy Melich and Lex Hemphill

Louis and Carolyn Mizell

Matt and Maren Mullin

Chris and Henry Morrison

Anne M. and William C. Nelsen

Linda S. Pembroke

Richard and Lois Peterson

Katie Marie Pollard

Ken and Stacy Potter

Melanie Preece

Lee Quinney

Suzanne and David Razor

Barbara Snarr Reid

Stephanie Reid

Leena Rinne

Joy Rocklin

Irwin and Harriet Ross

Aharon Shulimson and Julie Terry

Mark and Linda Scholl

Brylan Schultz

Robert and Nancy Schumacker

Katherine Scott

Jeffrey and Andrea Silver

Lou Ann Stevens

Cyndie Taylor

Olga Urbieta-Distefano

Beverly and Daniel Vargo

Amy Wadsworth and David Richardson

Individual Donors

Mark Weisbender

Sarah and Rich West

Michelle Wheeler

Terry R. Whipple

Michael and Judith Wolfe

Anonymous (2)

The above lists includes gifts received as of September 17, 2025

MEMBERSHIP

We thank our Members at the Producer and Director levels for their generous annual support of $500 and above.

DIRECTOR

AND PRODUCER

$500-1,499

Jennifer Abouzelof

Peter and Alexandra Agrapides

Christine B. Anderson

Alta’s Rustler Lodge

Stephen Anderson

Ronald and Kathy Aoki

Robert and Joan Astle

Constanza Astorga

Michael and Jacqueline Bailey

Marcy Barlow

Dr. Bernard Simbari and William Barnett

Liesl Basile

Thomas Bath

Thomas and Mary Ann Bauman

Ernest and Jane Bebb

Peter and Rosemary Beck

Gary Beers

Barbara Belnap

Chandra and Eric Bergeson

Anonymous

Sharon and Michael Bertelsen

Diane and Nicholas Bielaczyc

Kenneth and Melinda Birrell

Richard C. and Jennie Holman Blake

Ronald and Tracy Bolander

Joan and Bryan Bowles

Elizabeth Bowman

Michelle Branson

Jeffrey Breglio

Nick Brown

Joshua Bryant

Jacquelin and Tom Bryce

Julie Chahine

Carol Ann Christensen

Randy Coleman

Janice and Richard Coleman

Deirdre Conway and Andrew Spencer

Stephanie Cramer

Debbie Davis

Erika Dean

Allison Debona

Ashby and Anne Cullimore Decker

Paul and Terrell Dougan

Sissy Eichwald

Eric and Shellie Eide

Janet Ellsworth

Lisa Fassnacht

Tammy Frisby

Individual Donors

Amy Fulton

Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner

Nena Germany-Greer

Mikisha Haeri

Scott and Loree Hagen

Scott Hansen

Michael R. and Sheila I. Harper

Sandra and David Haughey

Kenny and Janeal Hodges

Nathaniel Hoffelmeyer & Elizabeth Evans

Melanie Holbrook

Kevin C. Holmes and Valerie Youmans

Elise and Paul Hutchings

David and Linda Irvine

Amber Jensen

John S. Karls

Jessica and Reese Kidman

Sally and Ron Larkin

Katrina Last

Toni L. Lehtinen

Rachel Linkletter

David and Donna Lyon

Courtney Maclean

Dr. Ned L. and Mrs. Alene Mangelson

Howard Mann

Yolanda Marroquin-Lewis

Jose Mathews

Raven Mathis

Irina McGill

Will Mciff and Aaron Spades

Stephen and Sandy Morgan

Catherine Meldrum

Karen Nichols

Kirsten Novak

JoAnn G. Robertson

Maura and Serge Olszanskyj

Rachel Otto

Ronald and Camille Parker

Mrs. Elodie Payne

Lana and Boris Petkovic

Sandra Covey

Meleah Pustelak

Corey Rammell

Delia and Craig Reece

Carolyn Rich-Denson

Genevieve Maire Rosol

Sallie Shatz

Shauna Sheehan

Academy Scholarship Fund Donors

Cynthia Sinclair

David Gray Porter

Chelsea Strong

Joan Swain

Cynthia Swensen

The Vicky Telford Family

Jim and Zibby Tozer

Pat’s Dancewear

Anonymous

Neli Ulrich

Stephen Webster

Craig Willett

Lois Williams

Richard and Marsha Workman

Pearl Wright

Karen and Mike Zimmerman

Joel and Elaine Zuckerman Fund of Park City Community Foundation

Anonymous (2)

The above lists includes gifts received as of September 18, 2025

We thank those who have contributed to the Ballet West Academy Scholarship Fund, spanning all four Academy campuses, with generous donations of $1,000 and above.

Edited Name

Ballet West Guild

Pamela And Quarry Bingham

Amanda and Winston Bokor

Lisbeth Banner Brown

Julie Chahine

Kimberly Cox

artÉmotion

Carrie Dennis

Kent and Martha DiFiore

Branden and Celine Fini

Joan Firmage

Marc and Cammy Fuller

Samantha and John Gellert

Stacy Goebel

Courtney Miller Hawks and Jason Hawks

Kimberly and Jay Heglar

Brian Parcell and Florian Hernandez

Elizabeth Huntsman and Eduardo

Hernandez

Jennifer S. and Scott Huntsman

Steve and Florie Jackson

Brent and Maren Jensen Household

Heidi Huntsman and Mark Robinson

Eva and David Neeleman

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Molly Jones

Kevin and Julie Kehoe

Melissa Knighton

Jill and Peter Koziol

Katherine Probert Labrum

Very Reverend Frederick Quinney

Lawson

Helle Le Rette

Athelia and Carl LeSueur

Julie Lewis

Tatiana Lingos-Webb Prince and Matthew Prince

John Macfarlane

Edward and Heidi Makowski

Brooke Mangum

Jose Mathews

Mairin McCarthey

Rachele McCarthey and Brock Van de Kamp

Irina Mcgill

Kenneth Melby

John and Bria Mertens

Dan P Miller

John and Andrea Miller

Morgan Stanley Private Wealth

Management

Matt and Maren Mullin

Uzochi Ndukwe and Erik Erlingsson

Anne Neeley

Youth United of Park City Community Foundation

Karissa Peterson

Mrs. Sarah Primos

Ashley Quai

Shari and David Quinney

Kelley and Kevin Rogge

Ellen and Chris Rossi

Elizabeth and Jonathan Slager

Shayneh and Jason Starks

Katherine Tozer

Sarah Tucker

Alexandra and Christopher Von Maack

Brad and Linda Walton

Dylin Webster and KT Herr

Stephen Webster

Casey Weyland

Bethany Wojtech and Marc Korman

Carole Wood and Darrell Hensleigh

Jeffrey Wright and Vanessa DiPalma

John and Jean Yablonski

The above lists includes gifts received as of October 8, 2025

Encore Society

We honor those individuals who have made a meaningful commitment to the future of Ballet West by including the company in their estate planning.

Bené Arnold*

Gladys Banks*

Peggy Bergmann*

Berenice J. Bradshaw*

Judy Brady* and Drew W. Browning

Val A. Browning*

Kenneth P. Burbidge, Jr.*

Dr. Robert H.* and Marianne Harding

Burgoyne

Mary Elizabeth Colton*

Orlando Coryell*

Debbie Davis

The Donna L. Dell Trust*

Kent and Martha DiFiore

The Zorka D. Divich Trust*

Richard and Pamela Dropek

Dolores Doré Eccles*

Virginia Fackrell Estate*

Sid W. Foulger*

Dee Gauss

Dr. Esther S. Gross* and Dr. George D. Gross*

Merribeth Habegger-Anderson*

Stephanie and Timothy Harpst

Melissa A. Herbst*

Geoffrey C. Hughes*

Johann Jacobs and David Heuvel

Gordon Irving*

Grace Jackson*

Flemming and Lana Jensen

Sara Kaplan

Dennis L. Kay Trust*

Barry L. Keller*

Cynthia Lampropoulos Family Trust

Adrienne Larson*

Gaye Herman Marrash*

Willis McCree and John Fromer

Glenn H. and Karen Fugal Peterson

Nancy Rapoport and Jeff Van Niel

Joy Rocklin

Marian Ream*

Pamela A. Scarpelli*

Michael Scolamiero

Teresa Silcox

Steven P. Sondrup*

Margot Shott*

Norman C. Tanner* and Barbara L. Tanner*

David Tundermann*

Oma W. Wagstaff*

Mrs. Glen Walker Wallace*

Gladys Walz*

Susan Warshaw

Afton B. Whitbeck*

Carole M. Wood and Darrell Hensleigh

Marelynn Weiss Zipser* and Edward Zipser

*Indicates donor has passed away

Gifts Made In Memory and In Honor Of

We thank those donors who have made a gift to Ballet West in memory or in honor of the individuals listed below.

IN MEMORY OF

Bessa

Colleen Hansen

Skip Daynes

Ballet West Guild

Donna Jean Fullmer

Tricia Fullmer

Jon Le Rette

Ballet West Guild

Helle Le Rette

Nina Jonas and Andreas Heaphy

Gloria Mathwig-Hubbard

Marian Rice

Lynette Myler

Marie Myler

Ila Neeley

Ballet West Guild

Gracie Belle Nielsen

Douglas Maack

Sarah Nelson

Brad and Teresa Nolen

Maggie Wright Tesch

Ballet West Guild

Walker and Sue Wallace

Caroline Wallace

Lois Williams

The Ballet Babes

IN HONOR OF

Gracie Belle

Brandy Maack & Douglas Maack

Gabby Bonner-Barcomb

Marc A. Barcomb

Sandy Gillings

Amy Lloyd

Andrew Goldberg

Ballet West Guild

The Huntsman Family

Richard and Nancy Potashner

Henry Rampton Kendell

Sllison and Scott Kendell

Kaja and Maiken

Connie Mendez

Roy Miller

Blake Miller

Vickie Oliver

Erika Sorensen

Poppy, Ivy and Archie

Laurin Caldwell

Sadie and Grace Shipp

Nathan Shipp

Michael Scolamiero, CEO of the Year Award

Frances and Jerome Battle

Clisto and Suzanne Beaty

Drew W. Browning

Donna Conway

Stephanie Cramer

Kent and Martha DiFiore

Margaret M. Drake

Elaine Ellis and Henry Wurts

Angelo Peter Giardino

Christine Heflin

Jennifer S. and Scott Huntsman

Jennifer and Gideon Malherbe

Juergen Sass

Joanne Shiebler

Jonathan and Liz Slager

Naoma Tate

Adam Sklute

Joy Rocklin

Harriet and Irwin Ross

Zella

Blake Miller

The above lists includes gifts received as of September 18, 2025

Advertiser Support

This playbill would not be possible without the advertisers who support it. Their patronage means information is available to you without cost to Ballet West. We extend our gratitude and encourage you to thank them as well.

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Ballet West Staff

Adam Sklute

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

THE WILLAM CHRISTENSEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHAIR

Ballet West Staff

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION

Michael Andrew Currey director of production

Michael McCulloch

production stage manager

Liz Reams

stage manager and production operations coordinator

Robert Clifford technical director/ head carpenter

Ethan Daughton assistant carpenter

Jeff F. Herbig properties master

James K. Larsen

lighting supervisor/ head electrician

Juliana Hedges assistant electrician

Lizzie Fisher

wardrobe supervisor

Daniel Streed assistant wardrobe supervisor

Yancey J. Quick

wig master

I.A.T.S.E. Local 99 run of show crew

TICKETING AND SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

Natalie Thorpe director of patron services

Brooke Christensen assistant manager of patron services

Jane Harris

patron services and group sales lead advisor

Ballet West is an American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) company.

House Rules

To ensure the enjoyment of the majority of our patrons who arrive on time, and in deference to the artists, latecomers will not be admitted to the auditorium until there is an appropriate pause in the performance. During some productions, this pause may not occur until the end of the first act.

• All casting is subject to change.

• For your own safety and the safety of other patrons, please do not exit the Theatre before the house lights are up.

• Any use of cameras and recording equipment in the Theatre, which is not authorized by the management, is strictly prohibited.

• No babes in arms.

• No smoking is permitted in the auditorium.

• Outside food and beverages are not allowed in the auditorium; as a courtesy to all patrons in attendance, food consumption is discouraged in the theatre during the performance.

• Lost articles may be claimed at security.

Reglas de Casa

• Anyone expecting emergency calls is urged to leave their seat locations and cell phones with the house manager.

• Please silence all electronic timepieces and cell phones for the period of the performance.

EMERGENCY EVACUATION INFORMATION

In the event of an emergency, please REMAIN SEATED and listen to information given by management and ushers.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre offers assistive listening devices free of charge that may be checked out at the coat check counter located in the lobby.

Para garantizar el disfrute de la mayoría de nuestros asistentes que llegan a tiempo, y en deferencia a los artistas, no se permitirá el ingreso al auditorio a quienes lleguen tarde hasta que haya una pausa adecuada en la función. Durante algunas producciones, esta pausa puede no ocurrir hasta el final del primer acto.

• Todos los actores están sujetos a cambios.

• Por su propia seguridad y la seguridad de los demás asistentes no abandone el teatro antes de que se enciendan las luces de la sala.

• Está estrictamente prohibido el uso de cámaras y equipos de grabación

• en el teatro que no estén autorizados por la

• administración.

• No se permiten bebés en brazos.

• No se permite fumar en el auditorio.

• No se permite la entrada de alimentos ni bebidas del exterior al auditorio; como cortesía a todos los asistentes presentes, ni se permite el consumo de alimentos

• en el teatro durante la función.

• Los objetos perdidos se pueden reclamar en seguridad.

• Se insta a cualquier persona que espere llamadas de emergencia a que deje sus asientos y sus teléfonos móviles con el director de la sala.

• Por favor silencie todos los relojes electrónicos y teléfonos móviles durante el período de la función.

INFORMACIÓN SOBRE EVACUACIÓN DE EMERGENCIA

En caso de emergencia, PERMANEZCA SENTADO y escuche la información que le proporcionen la dirección y los acomodadores.

DISPOSITIVOS DE AYUDA AUDITIVA

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre ofrece dispositivos de ayuda auditiva gratuitos que se pueden retirar en el guardarropa ubicado en el vestíbulo.

Para garantizar el disfrute de la mayoría de nuestros clientes que llegan a tiempo, y en deferencia a los artistas, no se permitirá el ingreso al auditorio a quienes lleguen tarde hasta que haya una pausa apropiada en la presentación. Durante algunas producciones, esta pausa puede no ocurrir hasta el final del primer acto.