Smuin Up to date Ballet is happy to open its thirty second season this fall with an eclectic program of works by award-winning choreographers, and single tickets at the moment are on sale. The autumn season runs September 12 – October 5 at venues in Mountain View, Walnut Creek and San Francisco.
Underneath the route of Creative Director Amy Seiwert, this season takes its title from Alejandro Cerrudo’s a lot celebrated artwork installation-cum-movement drama Extraordinarily Shut, set to music by Philip Glass and Dustin O’Halloran. Subsequent is Justin Peck’s Partita, set to Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Partita for 8 Voices,” and that includes eight dancers in sneakers. Partita is a West Coast premiere, and Smuin is proud to be the primary firm exterior of New York Metropolis Ballet to carry out the work because it premiered in 2022. The ultimate piece on this system is A Lengthy Night time choreographed by Seiwert. Subverting the language of classical ballet with modern motion, A Lengthy Night time reimagines Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night time’s Dream with humor and heartfelt storytelling.
Born in Madrid, Cerrudo is the inventive director of Charlotte Ballet, and an internationally acclaimed choreographer who made historical past as Hubbard Avenue Dance Chicago’s first-ever resident choreographer, a job he held from 2008 to 2018. Cerrudo choreographed Extraordinarily Shut for Hubbard Avenue in 2007, and the work has taken on a lifetime of its personal, having been carried out numerous occasions by corporations all over the world. This fall’s presentation marks Smuin’s first time performing a piece by Cerrudo, and the corporate is thrilled to have as stager Pablo Piantino, who originated one of many roles in Extraordinarily Shut.
Peck is resident choreographer and inventive advisor at New York Metropolis Ballet. Within the Bay Space, he could also be finest remembered for his collaborations with San Francisco Ballet which offered Within the Countenance of Kings (2016) set to pop music by Sufjan Stevens, and Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2018), two works which earned reward for his or her fluid and emotionally resonant choreography. Peck is a three-time Tony Award winner for Greatest Choreography. He has additionally choreographed for function movies together with Steven Spielberg’s musical adaptation of West Aspect Story (2021) and Bradley Cooper’s biographical drama Maestro (2023).
This season is Smuin’s first curated solely by Seiwert, and the corporate is proud to current Seiwert’s A Lengthy Night time, which premiered in 2023 for BalletX in Philadelphia. Set to a medley of songs by Patsy Cline, Pink Martini, Harry Nilsson, and others – all songs incorporating the phrase “dream” of their lyrics – A Lengthy Night time brings to life the mischievous Puck and hapless lovers of Shakespeare’s basic comedy. “Pleasant!” exclaimed The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“To have Justin’s and Alejandro’s work in my first curated season is an honor and a thrill,” stated Seiwert. “Justin’s artistic path jogs my memory a little bit of our founder Michael Smuin’s. His work in movie and on Broadway informs the distinctive model he brings to his creations for the live performance dance stage. And Alejandro’s work exemplifies how extraordinary modern dance might be: musical and theatrical, with a thriller that may take your breath away.”
Smuin’s fall season opens on the Mountain View Heart for the Performing Arts September 12 – 14: Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with two further matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. From Mountain View, the corporate strikes to the Lesher Heart for the Arts in Walnut Creek with two performances September 19 – 20: Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Smuin’s fall season concludes on the Blue Defend of California Theater at YBCA in San Francisco September 26 – October 5 with eight performances scheduled: Friday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 28 at 2 p.m.; Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 3 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, October 4 at 2 p.m. and seven:30 p.m.; and Sunday, October 5 at 2 p.m.
Single tickets vary from $25 to $125, and subscriptions are $110 to $255. For reservations go to smuinballet.org.
