Versatility and entertainment once again are center stage as Kansas City Ballet announces its 2005-06 season of ballets. Universally recognized dance masters like George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Mary Wigman and Isadora Duncan, will share billing with today's emerging choreographers such as Paula Weber and Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director William Whitener, and a host of nationally recognized dance artists like Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Emeritus Todd Bolender in the coming season. The Fall Season (October 6-9, 2005) will feature the company premiere of the Stravinsky Violin Concerto choreographed by George Balanchine. The program continues with Kansas City choreographer Paula Weber’s Toccata e due Canzoni, commissioned by the Kansas City Ballet to the music of Bohuslav Martinu. ZuZu Lounge, an audience favorite when it was premiered in 2002, will complete the Fall program. It was choreographed by Margo Sappington to the fun and retro lounge music of Juan Esquivel. Following the December performances of Kansas City Ballet’s The Nutcracker, the Winter Season (February 23-26, 2006) will present Fernand Nault’s version of La Fille mal gardée (The Badly Guarded Daughter). This delightful story ballet has all the comedic elements of a turn of the century Neil Simon play with a dash of Feydeau farce as well. Although first premiered in 1789, this ballet has been an audience favorite wherever it has been performed. “Fille” joins the ranks of other story ballets such as Giselle, Coppelia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Nutcracker that audiences have traditionally found enjoyable for the entire family. Artistic Director William Whitener will close the program with a reworking and expansion of an original ballet produced during a residency at University of Kansas last year entitled Beat. It will incorporate a solo choreographed to “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis. The work utilizes jazz and popular music. The Spring Season (May 11-14, 2006) will mark the reappearance of Bolender’s Voyager, a provocative 1984 ballet created in collaboration with Kansas City light sculptor, the late Dale Eldred. The score is Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade. A second series of Six Solos of Consequence will be presented. The initial concept of staging rarely seen solos by primarily early modern choreographers resulted in great audience interest as well as national notice. This new series of solos, which will include more contemporary work as well as earlier ballets, will feature choreographers Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, two works by George Balanchine, Claire Porter, and Bob Fosse. Whitener will stage the Fosse piece as he originated the solo in a larger work, Dancin’, produced on Broadway. Finishing the season will be the third work by Twyla Tharp presented by Kansas City Ballet, The Catherine Wheel Suite, with music by pop/rock icon David Byrne (Talking Heads). The Suite is a collaborative project between Tharp and William Whitener. It will synthesize elements from the original, longer work The Catherine Wheel which first premiered on Broadway in September 1981 to huge popular acclaim. A season subscription package includes the Fall, Winter, and Spring Repertory Programs with benefits including: savings of up to 40% off regular single ticket prices, priority seating, savings up to 28% and early purchase of Nutcracker tickets, free ticket exchange, and great getaway and dining packages from Kansas City Ballet and Host Hotel & Restaurant Sponsor Hotel Phillips. Season tickets range in price from $21 to $120. Single tickets are also available. To place your order, please call Kansas City Ballet ticket box office at 816-931-2232 x375 or click here to order a season subscription.
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