Ballet San Antonio has experienced leadership changes over the past week. We want to assure everyone that our season is proceeding as planned. Currently our dancers are in rehearsal preparing for Swan Lake. Our ballet mistress Amy Fote is leading these rehearsals as she has done for all of our previous productions since her arrival along with Dominic Walsh.
Ballet San Antonio is proud of its growth artistically over the past four years and recognizes that growth is only possible by a team effort. This effort by our talented dancers, a small overworked yet dedicated staff, and a Board committed to supporting these projects by raising the funds needed for the company to move forward and be successful. Our donors and patrons make up the “most valuable team member” category for without them none of our success would be possible. Ballet San Antonio will continue to be a team of dedicated people committed to bringing the highest quality dance to this community.
As BSA moves into its next chapter we are committed to identifying a leadership team that will elevate our productions to new heights and provide a business acumen that can help chart a course of sustainability for Ballet San Antonio.
We encourage our community to come and experience the beauty of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, October 9, 10, 11. Contact the Tobin Center box office at 223-8624 for tickets or go online at www.tobincenter.org.
*Featured/top image: Ballet San Antonio dancers. Courtesy photo.
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In 2012, the SA Symphony chose Brahms as its second festival composer. An original piece by Gabriel Zertuche, “Love Triangle,” was performed by Ballet SA to chamber music of Brahms performed by by SOLI, another SA-based group. The theme was the “triad” involving Brahms, composer Robert Schumann and pianist Clara Schuman (Robert’s wife) that has provided fodder for over-active imaginations since the 19th century. Other interpretations of this “juicy” story have been done; most were sensationalist verging on seedy. The Zertuche work was not at all like other representations of the relationships among these three musicians in that it did not imply a sexual relationship between Clara and Brahms, but portrayed the emotional connection the three artists shared in a very powerful, noble yet human, way. I was knocked out by it. As I heard a Brahms biographer say at a conference when asked to comment on whether Clara and Johannes actually “did it,” the author said, “That question says more about us than it does about Clara and Brahms. You can love someone your entire life and not sleep with them.” The Ballet SA production gave artistic life to that sentiment for all of us to ponder and perhaps see parallels in our own lives.
Let’s hope that Ballet SA continues to stage truly original, compelling, well performed productions. Ballet SA has attracted and hired splendid, hard-working young dancers. Let’s hope the creative and administrative forces at Ballet SA do not drive them away.