More Nutcrackers than you can shake a stick at. Theater schedules are very tight in December, even for small towns!
Dueling Nutcrackers Vie for Audience
by Cathy Murillo
Because of an unavoidable scheduling conflict, both Santa Barbara Festival Ballet and State Street Ballet will present their respective Nutcrackers on December 13 and 14, at essentially the same curtain times. Heightening the sense of competition, State Street Ballet will forego its Hollywood-themed presentation of art deco sets and 1930s costumes, so both productions will be turned out in traditional fairytale ballet style.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Review: Swan Lake
The Santa Barbara Independent reviews Swan Lake:
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Mio Kondo, guest artist Yevgeni Anfinogenov, Victoria Luchkina(photo David Bazemore)Swan LakeGranada Theater, October 12, 2009
Reviewed by Elizabeth Schwyzer
It’s a big year for State Street Ballet: the company is celebrating its 15th anniversary, moving to new studio space, and stepping into its role as one of the resident companies of the newly restored Granada. Last weekend’s production of Swan Lake was SSB’s way of acknowledging a historic moment in its development—a statement of its ability to do justice to the world’s most popular ballet and to the classical tradition that remains at the foundation of its work, and to attract a large audience.
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Feature: Swan Lake
The Santa Barbara Independent's feature on our Swan Lake as well as our new studio:
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Victoria Luchkina as Odette/Odile (photo by David Bazemore)
State Street Ballet’s Swan Lakeby Justine Sutton
This fall, State Street Ballet (SSB) is celebrating 15 years in Santa Barbara, stepping onto a larger stage at the Granada, and moving into a new studio space on Las Positas. It’s enough to make even the most seasoned dancer’s head spin.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Review: Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana, photo by David BazemoreThe Santa Barbara Independent reviews Carmina Burana:
An Historic OccasionGranada Theatre, May 31, 2008
Reviewed by Charles Donelan
Along with a professional orchestra assembled for the occasion and three superb vocal soloists, the Santa Barbara Choral Society and State Street Ballet created a lively, coherent, and wholly satisfying new version of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. With the chorus standing on risers behind the dance stage and the orchestra below in the Granada’s amazing adjustable pit, the stage proper became a dream space in between — the perfect location for the unfolding of William Soleau’s world premiere choreography.
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Noozhawk.com's review of Carmina Burana:
Carmina Burana Doubles Its MagicGranada Theatre, May 31, 2008
Reviewed by Margo Kline
Carmina is a kind of beautiful monster. It is an immense musical work, and Soleau created an equally profound dance vocabulary for it.
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Feature: Carmina Burana
Victoria Luchkina, photo by Rose EichenbaumThe Santa Barbara Independent's feature article on Carmina Burana:
State Street Ballet Unveils a New Carmina Burana at the GranadaRead more of the feature.Feature by Elizabeth Schwyzer
This weekend, in partnership with the Santa Barbara Choral Society (SBCS) and Orchestra, [State Street Ballet] unveils its latest production and its most dramatic project as of yet: an original, full scale, evening-length production of Carmina Burana at the Granada.
This is one of the largest original theater productions ever staged in Santa Barbara, and certainly the largest yet at the newly renovated theater. With 20 dancers, 100 singers, and 53 musicians, it’s unprecedented in scope and ambition, and it’s happening on a scale that would not have been possible in any other theater space in town.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Feature: Carmina Burana in 13 days
In 13 days:125 singers
24 poems
8 timpani
3 tambourines
3 bells
3 glockenspiels
2 snare drums
bass drum
triangle
antique cymbals
crash cymbals
suspended cymbals
ratchet
castanets
sleigh bells
tam-tam
tubular bells
xylophone
24 poems
8 timpani
3 tambourines
3 bells
3 glockenspiels
2 snare drums
An assorted collection of
bass drum
triangle
antique cymbals
crash cymbals
suspended cymbals
ratchet
castanets
sleigh bells
tam-tam
tubular bells
xylophone
1 very nervous tenor
andState Street Ballet
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. William Soleau's choreography.
Tickets available now at the Granada Theatre.
News: Two new board members join State Street Ballet
State Street Ballet welcomes its two newest board members: Arlyn Goldsby and Benjamin Jerry Cohen.
Arlyn Goldsby is the owner of Objects in Montecito, the eclectic boutique on Coast Village Road. She was on the Board of Women’s Economic Ventures and very much involved with the Compeer Program at the Music Academy of the West. She and her husband Marlowe support Cottage Hospital, and the building of the new Granada Theatre.
Her interest in ballet was stimulated by her grandfather who had a box at the Metropolitan Opera. Every year from the age of eight, she traveled from Cleveland, Ohio to New York to watch the opera and to see her aunt who was a ballerina with the Corps de Ballet at the Metropolitan and also the Ballet Russe.
Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a PhD in Economics in 1963. He has worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1962-1964) and has taught at Princeton University (1964-1971) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1971-1991). A specialist in the political economy of international money and finance, he serves on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and is the author of twelve books, including most recently The Geography of Money (1998), The Future of Money (2004), and International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (2008). He has won numerous awards and in 2000 was named Distinguished Scholar of the year by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.
Since 1999 he has served on the Board of Directors of the Music Academy of the West, where he has been Treasurer for the past seven years. He also serves on the Board of the Channel City Club. He and his wife, the historian Jane Sherron De Hart, have been long-time subscribers to the State Street Ballet, which they regard as one of Santa Barbara’s prime cultural assets.
Arlyn Goldsby is the owner of Objects in Montecito, the eclectic boutique on Coast Village Road. She was on the Board of Women’s Economic Ventures and very much involved with the Compeer Program at the Music Academy of the West. She and her husband Marlowe support Cottage Hospital, and the building of the new Granada Theatre.Her interest in ballet was stimulated by her grandfather who had a box at the Metropolitan Opera. Every year from the age of eight, she traveled from Cleveland, Ohio to New York to watch the opera and to see her aunt who was a ballerina with the Corps de Ballet at the Metropolitan and also the Ballet Russe.
Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a PhD in Economics in 1963. He has worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1962-1964) and has taught at Princeton University (1964-1971) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1971-1991). A specialist in the political economy of international money and finance, he serves on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and is the author of twelve books, including most recently The Geography of Money (1998), The Future of Money (2004), and International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (2008). He has won numerous awards and in 2000 was named Distinguished Scholar of the year by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association. Since 1999 he has served on the Board of Directors of the Music Academy of the West, where he has been Treasurer for the past seven years. He also serves on the Board of the Channel City Club. He and his wife, the historian Jane Sherron De Hart, have been long-time subscribers to the State Street Ballet, which they regard as one of Santa Barbara’s prime cultural assets.
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