Post Script for SAB's 2014-15 Winter Term -- Just Ended

More on the SAB Workshop Performances:
I've found a few more pictures from the Workshop Performance on Saturday evening, May 30th:

Kennard Henson and Larisa Nugent in Bournonville's 'William Tell Pas de Deux' staged by Darci Kistler.
Photo by Paul Kolnik for The School of American Ballet

Kennard Henson (17, Baltimore, MD) and Larisa Nugent (16, Ellicott City, MD) were especially well-matched in this delightful courtship pas de deux from the opera 'William Tell' by Giacomo Rossini.  Bournonville staged the opera in Copenhagen in 1873.

Thomas Davidoff and Leah Christianson in Suki Schorer's staging of Balanchine's 'Valse Fantaisie'.
Photo by Paul Kolnik for The School of American Ballet

Thomas Davidoff (16, Marietta, GA) and Leah Christianson (18, Batavia, IL) danced the evening performance of George Balanchine's 'Valse Fantaisie' to music by Mikhail Glinka, in the gloriously windswept staging by Suki Schorer.

Christopher D'Ariano dancing the Double Bass with ladies of the String Section  in Jerome Robbins' 'Fanfare'.
Photo by Paul Kolnik for The School of American Ballet

Christopher D'Ariano (17, New York, NY) was the airborne Double Bass in Jerome Robbins' 'Fanfare' staged by Susan Pillare and Christine Redpath to 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' by Benjamin Britten.  Christopher's solo ended with a somersault -- applauded by the adoring ladies of the String Section.

Where Are the Capstoners Going Now?
The School of American Ballet's 2014-15 Winter Term ended on Friday, June 12th.  Jon Stafford has guided the students in the Capstone Program (http://zylopho.blogspot.com/2015/01/more-ballet-quibbles-and-bits.html) to successful opportunities with a number of professional companies.

Five students -- Sasonah Huttenbach, Rachel Hutsell, Christopher Grant, Alec Knight, and Clara Ruf-Maldonado -- have been invited to become apprentices with New York City Ballet in the coming months.  They will be attending classes at the School until they get the call to begin rehearsals with the Company across Lincoln Center Plaza.  They will join Miriam Miller who is now an apprentice and Preston Chamblee who started the Winter Term as an apprentice.  He is now a member of the corps and just made a successful debut in Peter Martins' 'Morgen'.  Miriam, while still an apprentice, just debuted as Titania in Balanchine's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' on the final day of NYC Ballet's Spring Season.

Two students -- Dammiel Cruz and Leah Terada -- will enter the Professional Division of Pacific Northwest Ballet -- the feeder program for PNB's corps de ballet.  Dammiel wore a Seattle Seahawks shirt to School on Tuesday, so he seems excited about moving to the other coast.

Four students will be joining three international companies -- Joscelyn Dolson goes to the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen; Eric Beckham goes to the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto; Kaitlyn Casey and Audrey Lawrence go to the Dresden SemperOper Ballett.

Alicia Holloway goes to Suzanne Farrell Ballet; JeongKon Kim and Saxon Wood to Los Angeles Ballet; and Luke Potgeiter to Cleveland Ballet.

Alexandros Pappajohn will join ABT Studio Company; Josiah Cook and Samantha Riester join Cincinnati Ballet II; and Aaron Hilton goes to Boston Ballet II.

Leah Christianson has elected to go to Depauw University to pursue her academic education.

Twenty-four students graduate from high school this spring.  Of those 24 students, eight applied to colleges and received a total of 18 acceptances including from Columbia, Princeton and Yale in the Ivy League; from City College, Fordham University, Hunter College, and New York University in New York City; from California Institute of the Arts, Indiana University and the University of Michigan around the United States; and from the Paris campus of American University, the Rome campus of John Cabot University, and the London campus of Regents University around the world.

We wish all of the Capstone students enormous success as you move on to your futures.  Your dedication to your art and your ability to handle the pressures of academic and ballet schedules are a real inspiration to all of us who stand on the sidelines and watch in awe of your accomplishments.

Most of the students who appeared in the 2015 Workshops not mentioned above will be back at SAB again this fall for the 2015-16 Winter Term.  Some of them will be capstoners next year.

During the summer many SAB students will be attending summer sessions around the country and perhaps the world.  And while they're out exploring the wider world of ballet and honing their technique, we'll see new students from around the country and the world at the School's Summer Course and still more students will attend the Summer Intensive in Los Angeles.  And some students from the Summer Course and Summer Intensive will be invited to return to SAB for the 2015-16 Winter Term.