2024 Ballet Festival

2024 BALLET FESTIVAL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH
Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach

Our signature Ballet Festival program showcases a range of ballet styles, from classical to contemporary, performed by some of the best ballet dancers in Southern California.

Our 2024 ballet festival was held at the stunning Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach

Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Carpenter Performing Arts Center

Get a glimpse of the 2024 festival program below:


Guest Artists

The legendary KATHRYN MORGAN, former soloist from New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet, performed the exciting repertoire, George Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux, along with her partner Mate Szentes

Hollywood Ballet presented the iconic White Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, performed by principal ballerina Petra Conti and principal dancer Eris Nezha. Petra and Eris are former principals from Boston Ballet, La Scala Ballet, and LA Ballet. They are now the artistic directors of Hollywood Ballet.

Featured Ballet Companies

Anaheim Ballet, based in OC, and The Realm Company, based in LA, each presented original choreography that exhibited the exciting athleticism of their company dancers.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2024

September 14th, 2024
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Long Beach, CA

Anaheim Ballet
The White Number
Choreography: Sarma Lapenieks Rosenberg
Music: Christopher Tin
Performed by Anaheim Ballet company dancers: Elan Alekzander, Scott Alexander, Haley Altman-Cipot, Jestoni Dagdag, Marcos Diaz, Jessica Dunn, Rebekah Evans, Chris Flores, Anabelle Gunderson, Brittney Hattrup, Damian Kelly, Kaitlyn Kenny, Jacqueline Navarrete Yanez, Tatiana Ortega, Brayden Page, Analisa Sabo, Crystal Wachs
 
Hollywood Ballet
excerpt from Swan Lake - white swan pas de deux
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by: Petra Conti, Eris Nezha
Former principal dancers La Scala Ballet and Boston Ballet
 
excerpt from Don Quixote - Act 1
Choreography after: Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Staging: Rena Kamariotakis
Corps de ballet choreography: Samantha Bell

Performed by:

Kitri - Rachel Hutsell, former New York City Ballet
Basilio - Eduard Sargsyan, former Armenian National Ballet Theatre
Espada - Alexander Romanchikov, former soloist Mariinsky Theatre
Mercedes - Rena Kamariotakis, artistic director of SoCal Ballet Scene

Espada’s toreadors - Damian Kelly, Chris Flores, Brayden Page, Jestoni Dagdag
Kitri’s friends - Karli Padilla, Stella SingYiun
Don Quixote - Steven Swope
Sancho Panza - Trevor Felter
Corps de ballet
Wendy Alcarez, Jade Audon, Darrin Blumfield, Alina Chun, Heidi Debrincat, Brenda Erlinger, Carli Forsythe, Susan Heatter, Abby Heston, Vikki Lee, Christine Pigott, Michael Taber, Joel Tercero, Clarissa Wylde
Onco Ballet
Flock
Music: Vivaldi recomposed by Max Richter
Choreography: Maria Cherezova
Performed by: Anna Wassman, Maria Cherezova, Donna Bowden, Sarah Dzida, Kerry Hedley, Hannah King, Melissa Kittiwanich, Alison Ma, Judy Miller, Buffy Moreno, Aimee Murcia, Maria Quezada, Karen Skirvin, Samantha Vo, Helen Yum
 
Swing Time
Choreography: Sadie Black
Music: Bernard Berkhout
Performed by: Haley Altman-Cipot, Claire Buehler, Jet Dagdag, Brooke DeSoto, Teresa Dietrich, Chris Flores, Madelynn Hampton, Damian Kelly, Alina Krasovskaya, Natasha Rader, Celyna Tran
 
excerpt from The Flower Festival in Genzano
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: Edvard Helsted
World premiere 1858 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Performed by: Chloe Verkinder, Alec Guthrie
 
Insignificant Betrayals
Choreography: Jeffrey Raschiatore
Music: Philip Glass
Performed by: Anna Hirko, Teresa Dietrich, Damian Kelly, Jestoni Dagdag, Jacqueline Pierce
 
Kismet
Choreography: Claire Buehler
Music: Peter Gregson
Performed by: Haley Altman-Cipot, Chris Flores, Alina Krasovskaya, Brayden Page, Alexander Romanchikov, Celyna Tran
The Realm Company
Reclaim What's Yours
Choreography: Chasen Greenwood
Music: Taylor Briggs
Performed by TRC dancers: Hannah Barr, Melissa Briggs, Natalia Burns, Carmen Callahan, Sarah Chan, Harry Louis, Sofia Rochin, Mizuki Sako, Kristan Steckmann
 
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed with permission from the George Balanchine Trust
World premiere 1960 - New York City
Performed by: Kathryn Morgan, Mate Szentes
 

FESTIVAL GALLERY 2024

Photography: Samantha Zauscher

Here’s what our audience members and artists had to say about our inaugural event:
"Congratulations and bravo on the show this weekend. My six year old daughter and mom loved it! We had such a lovely time at the matinee. Thank you for your vision and courage to put together these opportunities for ballet dancers in our area."
- Erin Longhofer
"What the team at SoCal Ballet Scene accomplished on Saturday inspired us all. Well done!"
- Jackie Coffy

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