May 17-19, 2024, May 17-18 7:30-9:30pm; May 18-19 2-4pm
Sacramento Ballet wraps its 2023-24 season at a technical/inventive peak with Innovations, a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. Featuring Apollo - the legendary first collaboration between choreographer George Balanchine and composer Igor Stravinsky, the program is rounded out with an acclaimed work by San Francisco Ballet's Val Caniparoli, Ibsen's House, plus a world premiere from Louisville Ballet's resident choreographer Andrea Schermoly titled SALVE.
Balanchine's Apollo - SacBallet's time-honored connection with The George Balanchine Trust continues with Apollo, a neoclassical ballet about the Greek god of music's meet-up with three muses, goddesses of the arts including dance/song, mime, and poetry. Balanchine choreographed the work at age 24 in 1928, based on the music and libretto developed by Igor Stravinsky. Apollo achieved international recognition for the choreographer and marked the beginning of his lifelong working partnership with the composer. Balanchine considered Apollo to be his artistic coming of age. BALANCHINE is a Trademark of The George Balanchine Trust.
Caniparoli's Ibsen's House - Prolific choreographer, San Francisco Ballet alum and renowned American voice in dance, Val Caniparoli, weaves a tale of five female characters extracted from Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's plays in Ibsen's House, set to Antonin Dvorak's music.
Schermoly's SALVE (World Premiere) - Andrea Schermoly crafts a completely new work on the Company. Known for her innovative reimagining of classic works such as Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring and a fresh twist on Romeo & Juliet, her new SacBallet work, SALVE, will feature women being simultaneously powerful, beautiful and gritty. It celebrates their drive for liberation with virtuosic movement, reflecting the constant push for freedom, and not being put down nor being told what to do.
$30 - $70.