May 19 - 21, 7:30 p.m. plus 2:00 p.m. Sat. & Sun.
Capping an exciting run of hit performances, Sacramento Ballet ends its 2022-23 season at a peak with Emergence, May 19-21, at The Sofia Theater. Performances feature: breathtaking, influential neo-classical/modern ballet "Agon" by composer Igor Stravinsky & choreographer George Balanchine; World premiere commissions from acclaimed dancemakers Caili Quan & Stephanie Martinez, made with support from Dance/USA's BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Female Choreographers in Ballet Initiative & the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation; Celebrated international dance creator Adam Hougland also debuts a new commission.
Composer Igor Stravinsky & choreographer George Balanchine's game-changing Agon is created for 12 dancers, presented in 12 parts, written using 12-tone musical composition techniques. Renowned for athleticism & technical brilliance.
Caili Quan is a sought-after New York-based choreographer/dancer creating a new SacBallet-commissioned showpiece. Quan has created works for many respected companies. Quan has served as an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow & a Toulmin Creator at The Center for Ballet & the Arts at NYU.
Stephanie Martinez is Artistic Director & founder of PARA.MAR Dance Theater of Chicago. She has created more than 60 original, critically acclaimed ballets. Her new commission, a contemporary pas de deux promises dramatic mood, tension, plot, and spectacle. It will feature costumes designed by SacBallet's Kaori Higashiyama. Martinez has been awarded Joffrey Ballet's "Winning Works: Choreographers of Color" commission & the Chicago 3Arts Award in recognition for her work as a female artist of color.
Adam Hougland has won The Princess Grace Award for Choreography, The Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, was one of Pointe Magazine's 2006 "10 VIP's," on Dance Magazine's 2011 "25 to Watch." Presently Principal Choreographer for Louisville Ballet, his world premiere commission for SacBallet will feature 10 dancers.
$70.