Opening Night Gala Evening
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8 pm

THE VERTIGINOUS THRILL OF EXACTITUDE
Conductor: Martin West
Kristin Long, Katita Waldo, Vanessa Zahorian, Nicolas Blanc*, Pierre-François Vilanoba

PAS DE TROIS from PAQUITA
Conductor: Martin West
Frances Chung, Rachel Viselli, Jaime Garcia Castilla*

PAS DE DEUX from CHOPINIANA
San Francisco Ballet Premiere
Conductor: Martin West
Claire Pascal, Ruben Martin*

PAS DE DEUX from REFLECTIONS
Conductor: Martin West
Muriel Maffre, Damian Smith

BLACK SWAN PAS DE DEUX from SWAN LAKE, ACT III
Conductor: Martin West
Violin: Roy Malan
Lorena Feijoo, Davit Karapetyan*

-INTERMISSION-

SOLO
Music: Tape
Peter Brandenhoff, Stephen Legate, Pascal Molat*

HARLEQUINADE
San Francisco Ballet Premiere
Conductor: Martin West
Tina LeBlanc*, Joan Boada*

PAS DE DEUX from THE DANCE HOUSE
Piano: Michael McGraw
Nutnaree Pipit-Suksun*, Tiit Helimets*

SOLO from ELEMENTAL BRUBECK
San Francisco Premiere
Music: Tape
Gonzalo Garcia

3RD MOVEMENT & FINALE from PRISM
Conductor: Martin West
Piano: Roy Bogas
Hansuke Yamamoto, Elizabeth Miner, Moises Martin, Kirill Zaretskiy, Sarah Van Patten, Sergio Torrado
and corps de ballet

* Indicates premiere in role

If anybody is seeing the gala, we hope to hear reports about the performance!

I did not have the opportunity to attend the Gala but a friend who attended said it was wonderful. He was particularly pleased with Lorena Feijoo and Davit Karapetyan in the Black Swan pas from Swan Lake. He said it brought down the house and got the most enthusiastic response from the ballet students standing 4 deep in the standing room section. For those interested here is a link to today's review in the SF Chronicle, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...DDGNMGT2IF1.DTL

Thank you for the report, balletdad. It'll be interesting to hear how Feijoo and Karapetyan will do in the full Swan Lake.