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CONTENTS

Letter from the Director 8Letter from the Board of Trustees 9Maria Mosina’s 20th season 24

COVER PHOTO:La Sylphide Maria MosinaPhoto by Allen Birnbach

CONTENTS PHOTOS:La Sylphide Tracy Jones, Francisco EstevezPhoto by Allen Birnbach and Dana Benton

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Alice (in Wonderland) Maria MosinaPhoto by Allen Birnbach

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORWelcome to the first production of Colorado Ballet’s 55th season! As I start my 10th season as Colorado Ballet’s artistic director, I want to thank everyone who has supported the ballet by purchasing tickets, making donations and attending our events. You have helped us thrive! The last two seasons have been the most successful in the history of our organization, breaking attendance and revenue records. We have been in our spectacular new building, the Armstrong Center for Dance since last summer and our new home has truly put Colorado Ballet on the map as a world-class ballet company. Our dancers, students and staff cannot thank our Capital Campaign supporters enough for their support. In August, Colorado Ballet also performed with some of the best dancers in the world at the Vail International

Dance Festival. The Company received rave reviews from critics for the three ballets we performed during the Festival.

This season, we also celebrate two extraordinary dancers who are entering their 20th season with Colorado Ballet: Maria Mosina and Sharon Wehner. It has been such a privilege to work with such talented principal dancers. Please read more about Maria in this program and Sharon in the Alice (in Wonderland) program and check out our website and social media pages for interviews with these dancers.

The 2015-2016 promises to offer something for everyone, starting with the romantic masterpiece La Sylphide, to family-friendly productions The Nutcracker and Alice (in Wonderland), and the innovative variety of contemporary works in Ballet Director’s Choice.

Colorado Ballet last performed La Sylphide in 1996 and I wanted to present it this season because it is one of the most beautiful, romantic ballets of all time. This ballet features choreography by August Bournonville and music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold, performed by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. Bournonville choreographed La Sylphide in 1836, making it one of the oldest surviving ballets. The ballet demonstrates temptation and loving something you cannot have.

After La Sylphide, I encourage you to join us for our 55th annual production of enchanting holiday classic, The Nutcracker featuring fantastic characters and wintertime magic. Come take a journey to a land of delicious sweets with our dancers and Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary arrangement performed by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra.

In the spring, don’t miss the Colorado premiere of Alice (in Wonderland), a ballet based on the beloved books by Lewis Carroll, with music by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. With choreography by Septime Webre and music by Matthew Pierce, Alice (in Wonderland) premiered in 2012 and we are thrilled to bring it to Denver for the first time. This is not your typical storybook children’s ballet; it is a charming theatrical extravaganza with colorful costumes, whimsical sets and a wide variety of dance styles that will appeal to all ages.

In March, we will close the season with Ballet Director’s Choice, a collection of three contemporary ballets including the world premiere of the tango-inspired ballet, The Angel of Buenos Aires by Colorado Ballet’s Ballet Mistress and Choreographer Lorita Travaglia, with music by Piazzolla. Renowned contemporary choreographer Dominic Walsh will present Wolfgang (for Webb), created in 2008 with music by W. A. Mozart. Ballet Director’s Choice highlights the talents of our dancers through a diverse selection of ballets and dance styles. You will not want to miss it!

Thank you for attending La Sylphide and for supporting Colorado Ballet. I hope you enjoy the performance!

Gil BoggsArtistic Director

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FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESWelcome to La Sylphide! As we begin our 55th season, the Colorado Ballet Board of Trustees

is proud to bring you technically-challenging classical ballet performances and innovative contemporary works. As board co-chairs, we are honored to be a part of Colorado Ballet’s ongoing momentum. Colorado Ballet’s last two seasons have been the most successful in the history of our organization, breaking attendance and revenue records. Last summer, we moved our new state-of-the-art dance training and rehearsal studio in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. In August, the Company received rave reviews for the three performances at the 2015 Vail International Dance Festival. Performing with some of the best dancers in the world and with so many recent successes, Colorado Ballet has proved that we truly are a world-class ballet Company!

Colorado Ballet also educates the next generation of dancers. The Colorado Ballet Academy provides a wide range of dance classes for children as young as 1 ½ to adults, beginners to students in the pre-professional ballet division. Academy students have the opportunity to audition for roles in several professional productions each year. The Academy not only teaches dance, it encourages the love of dance in every student. Colorado Ballet’s education and community engagement provide opportunities for in-need students, teachers, families and individuals with disabilities to take dance classes and attend performances. These programs make more than 50,000 contacts each year in 225 schools and organizations.

We hope that you enjoy today’s performance and will consider making a donation to Colorado Ballet. Donors of $1,000 or more belong to the Premiere Society and enjoy unique benefits like a private lounge and bar at the Ellie and free valet parking for ballet performances. In addition, we hope that you will attend one of our upcoming events including the Colorado Ballet Nutcracker Market in November and the Queen of Hearts Ball in February. Thank you for supporting Colorado Ballet!

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Principals Dana Benton, Chandra Kuykendall, Domenico Luciano, Maria Mosina,

Yosvani Ramos, Alexei Tyukov, Sharon Wehner

Soloists Shelby Dyer, Francisco Estevez, Asuka Sasaki

Corps de Ballet Joshua Allenback, Ariel Breitman, Morgan Buchanan, Mackenzie Dessens, Megan Dillon, Emily Dixon, Kevin Hale, Tracy Jones, Bryce Lee, Christophor Moulton, Sean Omandam,

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La SylphideColorado Ballet

October 2-11, 2015Ellie Caulkins Opera House

Choreography by August BournonvilleMusic by Herman Severin Løvenskiold

Staging and additional choreography by Karina ElverScenic Design and Costumes by Desmond Heeley

Lighting Design by Todd ElmerScenery Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre

Synopsis

Act I It is James’ wedding day. The young Scotsman is sleeping in his chair and an enchanting creature—a sylph—is kneeling at his feet and gazing at him lovingly. She dances around him and finally kisses him. James wakes up and instantly sees the wood nymph he has just been dreaming of standing right before his very eyes. He tries to catch her, but she eludes him and vanishes into the fireplace. Perplexed, he sinks back into his chair.

Effy, James’ fiancée, enters the festively decorated room with his mother, the rich widow Anna. Effy kisses James, who embraces her with unexpected intensity, believing her to be the sylph. Full of sadness, Effy declares that he was not thinking of her, but James consoles her by avowing his love for her.

Effy’s girlfriends arrive carrying wedding decorations and gifts, and Effy dances merrily among them. Just as James is handing her the family tartan, he notices the witch Madge, who has entered quietly and is sitting by the fireplace. He vehemently insists that her presence is a bad omen and tries to throw her out, but Effy and her friends intercede on her behalf and James reluctantly agrees to let her stay. Madge tells the girls’ fortunes and when it is Effy’s turn, she predicts that she will not marry James but his rival, Gurn, instead. In a fury, James throws the fortune teller out, but before she leaves, she swears revenge and curses him.

While Effy is being adorned for the wedding, James sits alone thinking about the sylph. Was her presence a dream or a reality? He puts the thought out of his mind. After all, he loves Effy and is about to marry her. Suddenly, the sylph reappears. She declares her great love for him and her despair that he is going to marry Effy.

She dances for him and James, fascinated, is on the point of yielding to her entreaties and following her into the forest when Gurn enters and discovers them both. He calls for Effy and Anna, but by the time they arrive, the sylph has disappeared and nobody believes Gurn when he claims to have seen “a winged creature” with James.The wedding guests arrive and for a while in the ensuing celebrations, James forgets about his vision.

Act II In the dark depths of the forest, Madge, together with her cronies, is preparing a poisonous scarf with which to avenge herself on James.

Day dawns, and the sylph leads James into her forest kingdom. He tries to embrace her, but she escapes his grasp and warns him never to touch her. James swears eternal love, and the sylph joyfully brings him berries and spring water. She summons her sisters, and he dances in the forest with them.

Gurn, who is still searching in the forest, suddenly discovers James’ hat on a tree-trunk, but Madge stops him on his way home and makes him promise not to reveal what he has seen. In return, she helps him to persuade the distressed and exhausted Effy to marry him.

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Artistic StaffGil Boggs, Artistic Director

Gil Boggs began his dance career with the Atlanta Ballet. He joined American Ballet Theatre in New York in 1982 and was promoted to soloist dancer in 1984 and principal dancer in 1991. Boggs was a member of the company for 17 years. Boggs also performed with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company, Baryshnikov and Company, Nureyev

and Friends, and made several guest appearances around the world. During his career with ABT, he was recognized as both an accomplished virtuoso and one of the company’s most popular performers. Boggs has worked with numerous noted choreographers, including Agnes de Mille, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Jerome Robbins and Merce Cunningham and has an extensive performance repertoire of both classical and contemporary works. Boggs accepted the position of Artistic Director with Colorado Ballet in the Spring of 2006. In Boggs’ tenure with Colorado Ballet he has restaged full-length productions of Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Don Quixote and Coppelia along with adding new full-length productions of Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Le Corsaire, Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan. Boggs has also presented 15 world premieres and 12 Colorado Ballet premieres by such renowned choreographers as Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovitch, Antony Tudor, Val Caniparoli, Dwight Rhoden and Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

Sandra Brown, Ballet MistressSandra Brown joined the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in 1987 under the directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov and was promoted to soloist in 1992 where she remained until 2003. During that time, she danced not only numerous classical full length principal roles, but gained recognition for her leading

contemporary roles as well. Most notably, she created and danced the world premiere role of Desdemona in Lar Lubovitch’s full-length Othello in 1997 and appears in ABT’s film productions of Romeo and Juliet, Le Corsaire, and the documentary Ballet. In 2000, Brown was featured in the movie Center Stage and appears in the film The Company. Brown also holds the honor of appearing on Broadway as the original Louise Bigelow in the Tony Award-winning 1994 revival of Carousel, directed by Nicholas Hytner and choreographed by Sir Kenneth MacMillan at the Lincoln Center Theater. In 2003, Brown left ABT to pursue work as a freelance artist with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Stiefel and Stars, Vladimir Malakhov, Peter Boal and Company, Chamber Dance Project, Dancers Patrelle, Ballet Hawaii and Madison Ballet. During this time, she also was asked to perform as a guest artist at the Vail International Festival, became certified to teach Pilates, taught for the ABT Summer Intensive, and choreographed the ballet Synchronicity. In 2006, she joined her husband, Gil Boggs, to work with Colorado Ballet. Since then, she has assisted staging the full-length productions of Giselle, Don Quixote, and Christopher Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Brown has also assisted with choreographing and staging of The Nutcracker, Coppélia, The Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake. In addition, she assisted staging Lar Lubovitch’s Smile With my Heart, Dwight Rhoden’s Ave Maria, Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, and Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods. Brown restaged her ballet, Synchronicity, for Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company.

Meanwhile, James is tormented by unfulfilled passion for his beloved sylph, and on encountering Madge, begs her to help him. She consents to do so on condition that he follow her instructions without question. He agrees, and Madge gives him the poisoned scarf and shows him how to fling it around the sylph. She promises him that if he doses as she says, the sylph will be his forever.

James hears the sylph approaching and hides away. She looks for him and plays merrily with the birds. Eventually, James steps forward and shows her the scarf by throwing it up into the air. Delighted, she begs him to give it to her, but he refuses. Finally, he orders her to kneel in front of him, as the witch instructed. When she trustingly does so, he ties the scarf around her wings and arms. Unaware that she is struggling to escape out of mortal fear, he embraces her and kisses her passionately. Trembling with pain, the sylph sheds her wings and sinks feebly to the ground, and only then does James realize what he has done by ignoring the sylph’s warning. Before she dies, the sylph once again vows her eternal love, and with a blessing, gives him back the wedding ring. The mourning sylphs float heavenwards with their lifeless sister, and James is left alone with his grief.

He hears the sound of joyful music and sees a wedding procession approaching. Effy and Gurn are about to be married. The gleeful Madge stops when she notices James and triumphantly reveals that she is avenged. Overcome with horror, James collapses and dies, and Madge’s exultant laughter echoes through the forest.


Artistic StaffIn 2007, she was asked to stage Smile with my Heart for the Joffrey Ballet. In 2013, she staged Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s Great Galloping Gottschalk at the University of South Carolina and in 2014 at NBA of Japan. In 1989 and 1990, she was chosen by Mikhail Baryshnikov to choreograph for the American Ballet Theatre Choreographic Workshop. During her tenure, she has choreographed for the Bal de Ballet, an event hosted by the Denver Ballet Guild. Her creations are From Within, Crimson Surges, Unforgettable, Grand Pas Fantastique, Heart Strings, One by One, Set Fire to the Rain, The Secret Garden, Young and Beautiful, The Charleston, Scheherazade, and Pirates of the Caribbean. In 2014, she gained critical acclaim for the ballet The Last Beat, which she created on the dancers of Colorado Ballet to the music of DeVotchKa.

Lorita Travaglia, Ballet MistressLorita Travaglia is originally from New Zealand. She received her ballet training at the National School of Ballet and later the Royal Ballet School in London. Lorita made her debut as a professional dancer with the Berlin Ballet. After six years with the Company, she moved to the United States where she worked with Princeton

Ballet, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and International Ballet Rotaru, dancing solo and principal roles in a wide range of repertoire. Her favorite roles include Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Cinderella, Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker and Paquita. In 1992, Lorita returned to New Zealand, but continued to perform as a guest artist with companies in the United States as well as Company Z, a contemporary dance company in New Zealand. Lorita began teaching in 1988 while still performing and studied the Vaganova methodology. She was the principal teacher for a professional training program in Auckland, New Zealand and later, as artistic director of Canyon Concert Ballet in Fort Collins, Colorado, she set up a similar aspirant program. In 1999, Lorita joined Colorado Ballet as director of the Apprentice Program and company repetiteur, and has been ballet mistress since 2006. Her choreography includes Equanimity, Aspects, Pictures at an Exhibition and Piazzolla for Colorado Ballet and a full-length The Nutcracker for Canyon Concert Ballet. Lorita graduated from the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2000 and has a private practice in Denver. She is an avid tango dancer and is the Creative Director of Parasol Arts.

Adam Flatt, Music Director & Principal Conductor

Adam Flatt has served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of Colorado Ballet since 2007, conducting hundreds of performances in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and leading the Colorado Ballet Orchestra to a widely recognized period of excellence. Well known to Colorado audiences, Adam

served as Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, where he led over 250 concerts in an acclaimed five-year tenure, and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra for seven years, leading that orchestra at home in Denver and on international tours. In addition to his work at Colorado Ballet, Adam is Music Director of the Newport Symphony Orchestra on the Oregon coast, and the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. As a guest conductor he has led performances with orchestras all over the United States and productions for the major ballet companies of Portland and Salt Lake City. He serves on the musical faculties of both the Rocky Ridge Music Center and Summerfest at the Curtis Institute of Music. Adam Flatt has his bachelor’s degree in music with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, and his master’s degree in instrumental and opera conducting from the Indiana University School of Music. Adam Flatt and his family make their home in Denver. www.adamflatt.com

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Catherine Sailer, Associate ConductorCatherine Sailer, Director of Choral Studies at the University of Denver, conducts the Lamont Chorale, Lamont Women’s Chorus and the Evans Choir. She is also the Associate Conductor of the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. Conducting credits include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Northeastern Pennsylvania

Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Symphony, National Symphony, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, National Opera of China, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Central City Opera Chorus, Dale Warland Singers, Kansas City Chorale, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Oregon Bach Festival. She was the winner of Chorus America’s Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship.


PRINCIPALS

Dana BentonDana Benton was born in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada, where she began her training with Lou and Pauline Zamprogna at The Dance Centre. At the age of 9, she was accepted to the National Ballet School in Toronto where she trained for eight years. Dana graduated from the National Ballet School with Honors in Academics and was awarded the

Peter Dwyer Award for Excellence in Dance. Upon graduating in 2000, Dana received a contract with the Alberta Ballet Company in Canada. She spent one year with the company as an apprentice. In 2001, she joined Colorado Ballet as a Corps de Ballet member. In 2007, she was promoted to Soloist and in 2014, she was promoted to Principal. With Colorado Ballet, Dana has worked with many well-known choreographers and repetiteurs including Val Caniparoli, Bronwen Curry, Judith Fugate, John Gardner, Thierry Michel, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Jessica Lang, Edwaard Liang, Donald Mahler, Amanda McKerrow, Michael Pink, Brian Reeder, Domy Reiter-Soffer, Dwight Rhoden, Amy Seiwert, Paul Sutherland, Lynn Taylor-Corbett, Doug Varone, Shelly Washington, Septime Webre, Christopher Wheeldon and Lila York. Since joining Colorado Ballet, she has performed many Soloist and Principal roles. Her notable roles include Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Swanilda in Coppélia, Cow Girl in Rodeo, Ave Maria Pas de Deux, Sugar Plum and Clara in The Nutcracker, Gulnara in Le Corsaire, Tinker Bell in Peter Pan, Pink and Aqua in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Red Girl in Celts, Lucy in Dracula, Princess Florine and Diamond Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Pas de Trois in Swan Lake, Peasant Pas in Giselle, Flower Girl and Cupid in Don Quixote, Hermia and Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Flames of Paris Pas de Deux, Bomb Squad in In The Upper Room, Lead Souvenir Lady in the Great Galloping Gottschalk, and the featured role in Amy Seiwert’s Traveling Alone. This is Dana’s 15th season with Colorado Ballet.

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Chandra KuykendallChandra Kuykendall is from Parker, Colorado and trained at the Academy of Colorado Ballet from 1988 until graduating in 1997. In 1996, she won the Denver Ballet Guild Competition and received the prestigious Florence Rustin Award. She also attended summer programs at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Vail (under full

scholarship), Kirov Academy of Ballet, San Francisco Ballet Academy and School of American Ballet. After graduating from the Academy in 1997, Ms. Kuykendall joined Colorado Ballet. She spent the 1998-1999 season with Leipzig Ballet in Leipzig, Germany under the direction of the brilliant choreographer Uwe Scholz. She returned to Colorado Ballet in the fall of 1999. With Colorado Ballet, Ms. Kuykendall has danced numerous principal roles including Princess Aurora

and Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Giselle and Myrta in Giselle, Medora in Le Corsaire, Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara in The Nutcracker, Cinderella in Cinderella, Dryad Queen in Don Quixote, Lucy in Dracula, Titania and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the principal role in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, the Crossover Girl in Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, the Mother in Glen Tetley’s The Rite of Spring, the Brown Girl in Celts, the Kick Girl in George Balanchine’s Rubies, principal role in Theme and Variations, and 2nd Violin in Concerto Barocco. Her favorite of these roles was the tragic Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. She has also been featured in Antony Tudor’s Leaves Are Fading, Stanton Welch’s Of Blessed Memory, Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, S. Webre’s Where the Wild Things Are, Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods, Jodie Gates’ Embellish, Emery LeCrone’s Archetypes, Val Caniparoli’s In Pieces, Jessica Lang’s From Foreign Lands and People and De Profundis, Mathew Neenan’s The Faraway, Amy Seiwert’s Traveling Alone and Things Left Unsaid, Carmina Burana, Great Galloping Gottschalk, Yes, Virginia, Another Piano Ballet and Martin Fredmann’s A Little Love as well as his Dreamspace shown on PBS. Ms. Kuykendall was featured in the August 2013 issue of 5280 Magazine highlighting seven of Colorado’s athletes. This is Ms. Kuykendall’s 18th season with Colorado Ballet.

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Domenico Luciano

Domenico Luciano was born in Naples, Italy and graduated from Royal Teatro di San Carlo Ballet School in Naples in 1999. In the same year, Mr. Luciano was invited to join the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Germany. After dancing with several companies in Europe including Europadance in France, Maggio Danza in Florence,

Teatro Dell’Opera in Rome and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, in 2004 Mr. Luciano joined Tulsa Ballet as a Demi-Soloist. In 2005, he joined Dominic Walsh Dance Theater in Houston as Principal Dancer. His repertoire includes many of the classical principal leads such as Romeo, Paris, and Benvolio in both Sir Kenneth MacMillan and John Cranko’s Romeo & Juliet; Romeo and Paris in Amedeo Amodio’s Romeo & Juliet with Eleonora Abbagnato, Etoile with Paris Opera Ballet; Solor in La Bayadere, The Prince in The Nutcracker, and Albrecht in Giselle, all by Derek Dean; In the Night by Jerome Robbins; Onegin in John Cranko’s Onegin; Roland Petit’s Ma Pavlova with international ballerina Lucia Lacarra; and Don Jose with the National Ballet of China in Carmen. Mr. Luciano also excels in his contemporary repertoire, which includes George Balanchine’s La Valse; Nacho Duato’s Jardi Tancat and Without Words; and Orfeo in Carole Armitage’s Orfeo and Eurydice. With Dominic Walsh Dance Theater he performed Matz Ek’s Pas de Dans, Jirí Kylián’s Double You and 27’52’’, and the role of the White Swan in the White Swan pas de deux from Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Le Spectre de la Rose, Desire in Sleeping Beauty, Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet, The Firebird with Paris Opera Ballet Étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot. As an international Principal Guest Artist, Mr. Luciano danced in production with Tulsa Ballet, Ballet Quad Cities, The Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Atlanta

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DancersBallet, Grand Rapids Ballet, National Ballet of China and The New National Theater in Tokyo. Mr. Luciano is also invited to various national and International Galas and Dance Festivals. In 2003, he received the Leonide Massine award in Positano, Italy as Best Male Dancer of the Year. In October 2008, the Houston Press named Luciano as “Best Dancer.” He was also named in Pointe Magazine “Standouts: Our 12 favorite performances of 2009” and in 2010 he received the “Young Talent Award” in Florence, Italy at DANZAINFIERA. He joined Colorado Ballet as a soloist in 2013 and was promoted to principal in 2014.

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Maria MosinaMaria Mosina was born in Moscow and graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Russia. Upon graduation, Ms. Mosina joined the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Company and (immediately) was chosen for principal roles. Mosina had toured the world appearing on all major European, American, African and Asian stages. In 1995, Ms. Mosina

was invited by Colorado Ballet to join as a leading principal dancer. Ms. Mosina performed all major parts in classical productions such as Clara and Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Sylphide in La Sylphide, Odette-Odille in Swan Lake, Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle in Giselle, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Kitri in Don Quixote, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Talioni in Pas de Quatre, The Dying Swan, Le Spectre de La Rose and pas de deux from Le Corsaire, Talisman, Paquita, Les Sylphides. Ms. Mosina also had the chance to show her talent in neoclassical, modern and contemporary choreographed master pieces such as Balanchine’s Apollo, Rubies, Theme and Variations, Western Symphony, Serenade, Concerto Barocco, Stars and Stripes and Who Cares?, as well as Christopher Weeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Pucci’s Size Nine Spirit (as seen on PBS). She has also performed Alvin Ailey’s River, Martha Graham’s monumental Appalachian Spring, Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, Paul Taylor’s Company B, F. Ashton’s Facade, Antony Tudor’s Leaves are Fading and Echoing of Trumpets, Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs and In The Upper Room, Glen Tetley’s The Rite of Spring, Michael Pink’s Dracula and Hunchback of Notre Dame, S.Welch’s Of Blessed Memory, Val Caniparoli’s In Pieces, Martin Fredmann and Alun Jones’ Romeo and Juliet, and Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, A Little Love, Mon Dieu, Sechertorte, Silent Woods and Dreamspace (as seen on PBS), Vebre’s Where the Wild Things Are, Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto No.1, Matthew Neenan’s The Faraway, Lynn Taylor-Corbett’s Great Galloping Gottschalk, Lar Lubovitch’s ...smile with my heart, Emery LeCrone’s Archetypes, Jodie Gates’ Embellish, Sandra Brown’s The Last Beat, and many more. Ms. Mosina was a featured dancer on the cover of Dance Magazine and has been featured in other magazine articles. She holds a bachelor’s degree in methodology and pedagogy from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. Ms. Mosina is also an active ballet instructor throughout the United States.

She participated as a master teacher and judge for the Youth American Grand Prix. Ms. Mosina performed leading roles in all major productions as a member of the Company, as well as a guest artist with many other festivals, galas, and companies. She is now in her 20th season with Colorado Ballet.

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Yosvani RamosYosvani Ramos was born in Camagüey, Cuba and trained at the National Ballet School, going on to dance with Jeune Ballet de France and Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris after winning the Gold Medal at the Paris International Ballet Competition in 1998. He joined English National Ballet as a Soloist in 1999 and was promoted

to Senior Soloist in 2000, then Principal Dancer in 2003 after his performance as Franz in Coppélia. He danced with ENB until 2008 when he joined The Australian Ballet as a Principal Artist, where he remained until April 2013. He has danced the lead roles in all the major classical ballets including Giselle, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Romeo & Juliet, Don Quixote, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, The Merry Widow, Manon, La Silphíde as well as in ballets by Balanchine, Ratmansky, Duato and many others and has guested all around the world. He danced at the XVIII International Ballet Festival in Miami in September 2013, spent several months guesting with companies in Europe and the USA and joined the Cincinnati Ballet as principal dancer in July 2014. At the beginning of the 2015-2016 season, Yosvani joins Colorado Ballet as Principal dancer.

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Alexei Tyukov

At age 10, he enrolled in Perm State Ballet Academy and in 1995, he graduated with a red diploma. He started dancing with The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1998, he won a gold medal in the Senior Men’s division at the Arabesque competition of Perm and received the Mikhail Arnapolskiy prize for the most

talented participant of the competition. During the next four years, Mr. Tyukov performed leading roles and traveled throughout the world. In 1999, he became a Principal dancer with Ballet Internationale and performed leading roles in full-length ballets including Carmen, Phaedra, Creation of The World, Thousand and One Nights, La Fille Mal Garde’, Cinderella, Fire Bird and Napoli. With Ballet Internationale, he danced throughout the United States and in Taiwan, China, Canada, Germany and France. In 2006, he joined Cincinnati Ballet as a Principal and performed classical and contemporary works. Mr. Tyukov has also participated in numerous galas including La Gala Des Etoiles in Montreal, Stars of Mariinskiy in Germany, International Gala in South


DancersKorea, and Russian Stars in memory of Galina Ulanova. He has been a guest artist in Amsterdam, Croatia, Japan and several American ballet companies. Mr. Tyukov has received many great reviews from The New York Times, Le Figaro, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times UK. He is a candidate of Master of Sports for Figure Skating. This is his 19th season performing with ballet companies and 7th season with Colorado Ballet.

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Sharon WehnerSharon Wehner is originally from San Jose, California. She trained with Jody White and David Roxander, San Jose Dance Theatre, San Francisco Ballet and San Jose/Cleveland Ballet. Ms. Wehner joined Colorado Ballet in 1995 and was promoted to Principal in 1999, and in the last 20 years, has performed many lead roles with

the Company. These include Kitri in Don Quixote, Giselle in Giselle, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Medora in Le Corsaire, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Swanilda in Coppelia, Mina in Dracula, Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, the Cowgirl in Rodeo, the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Cinderella in Cinderella, Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Titania and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Second Violin in Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, the Principal couple in Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, Rubies, and Theme and Variations, Antony Tudor’s Leaves are Fading, and Twyla Tharpe’s In The Upper Room. She has been honored to have solos and pas de deuxs created on her by choreographers Val Caniparoli, Edwaard Liang, Mathew Neenan, Christopher Wheeldon, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Dwight Rhoden, Jessica Lang, Brian Reeder and Toru Shimazaki. In addition to Colorado Ballet, Ms. Wehner has also performed with The Washington Ballet, Oakland Ballet and Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. She has also been a guest artist at the Vail International Dance Festival, in Japan in the Aoyama Ballet Festival, and the National Ballet of Japan’s Golden Ballet Co-star. Sharon enjoys teaching dance to all ages and abilities, particularly Dance for Parkinson’s Disease.

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SOLOISTS

Shelby DyerShelby Dyer is a soloist with Colorado Ballet. She joined the company in 2006 after working professionally with Ballet Internationale Indianapolis, Tulsa Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet. She has had the pleasure of performing in the Florida International Ballet Gala, the Stars of the Russian National Ballet Gala in Chicago and the Vail

International Dance Festival. Some of Dyer’s most notable roles include Lisa in La Fille Mal Gardee, Wendy in Peter Pan, Myrtha in Giselle, Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Dryad Queen in Don Quixote, Gulnara and Third Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Big Swan and Pas de Trois in Swan Lake and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker.

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Francisco EstevezBorn in Quito, Ecuador, Francisco moved to the USA in 1995. He began his ballet training in Louisville, Kentucky and at the age of 16 was invited to finish his professional training at the School of American Ballet in New York where he also had the opportunity to perform featured roles with the New York City Ballet. Upon

graduating in 2008, Francisco joined Boston Ballet under the direction of Mikko Nissinen where he danced for 2 years before joining the Barcelona Ballet under the direction of Angel Corella. As a member of this company, he performed various soloist and principal roles and took part in the “Feria del Libro” in Guadalajara, Mexico, the Spoleto Festival in both Italy and Charleston, North Carolina and the Peralada festival, Catalonia. Francisco won 1st Place at the Premio Internacional de Danza Roseta Mauri, in 2011. His notable roles to date include Balanchine’s Tarantella and the 1st and 2nd themes from The Four Temperaments, Jorma Elo’s Carmen Illusions, Principal in Jerome Robbin’s 2 & 3 Part Inventions and the 1st and 3rd Sailor in Robbins’ Fancy Free, Peter Martin’s Les Gentil Hommes, Christopher Wheeldon’s For Four, DGV, Polyphonia and VIII, Pink, Red and Aqua Couples in Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto, Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, Stanton Welch’s Clear, Franz in Coppelia, Benno and Neopolitan in Swan Lake, the Peasant pas de deux from Giselle, the pas de six from Napoli, the Nutcracker Prince and Sugarplum Cavalier in The Nutrcracker, Jester in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Lysander in Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Renfield in Michael Pink’s Dracula, among others. Francisco joined Colorado Ballet during the 2012-2013 season and was promoted to soloist in 2015.

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Asuka SasakiAsuka Sasaki was born in Nagano, Japan. She trained at the Beijing Dance Academy in China and later joined Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet as an Aspirant. She joined Colorado Ballet’s Company in 2005 and was promoted to Soloist in 2010. With Colorado Ballet, she has worked with accomplished choreographers such as Val

Caniparoli, Eldar Aliev, Michael Pink, Ben Stevenson, Martin Fredmann, Lila York, Shelly Washington, Jessica Lang, Dwight Rhoden, Edwaard Liang and Amy Seiwert. Sasaki has danced many soloist roles with the Company. Her notable roles include, Clara and Dew Drop in The Nutcracker, Mercedes and Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Gulnara in Le Corsaire, Pas de Trois in Swan Lake, Myrta and Peasant Pas de Deux in Giselle, Fleur de Farine, Miettis Fairy and diamond in The Sleeping Beauty, Autumn Fairy and Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Red and Pink Couple in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Soloist in George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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CORPS DE BALLET

Joshua AllenbackJoshua Allenback, a native of Colorado, has been dancing since he was 4 years old. He has studied, on scholarship, with American Ballet Theatre, The Rock School, and Joffrey Ballet. He is also a former member of Houston Ballet II as well as Ballet San Antonio. Josh has performed many principal roles including Firebird’s Katchi,

Giselle’s Prince Albrecht, Cavalier and Snow King in The Nutcracker, and Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty. He joined Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company in 2013 and was promoted into the Company in 2014.

Ariel BreitmanAriel Breitman of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, began his dance training at the age of eight with the Boys Scholarship Program of Metropolitan Ballet Academy directed by Lisa Collins. At 16, Ariel moved to New York City to train with Edward Ellison, director of Ellison Ballet-Professional Training Program. While in New York, Ariel

performed roles such as Jerome from Flames of Paris, Basilio’s Variation from Don Quixote, the Poet’s Variation from Chopiniana, James’ Variation from La Sylphide, and Cavalier from The Nutcracker. In 2012 and 2013, Ariel earned three gold medals from the Youth America Grand Prix competition and one silver medal in 2013 from the Tanzolymp International Ballet Competition in Berlin. After

graduating from Ellison Ballet, Ariel joined The Washington Ballet Studio Company for one season, performing roles such as Liza in George Balanchine’s Who Cares and John Darling in Septime Webre’s Peter Pan. His repertory also includes the Grand Pas de Deux from La Esmeralda, Flames of Paris, and The Nutcracker, as well as the Diana and Acteon Pas de Deux from La Esmeralda, the Pas de Trois from Swan Lake, and the Pas de Quatre from Raymonda. Most recently, Ariel was invited to compete in the 2014 USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, where he performed with his partner in the final round and galas. Ariel is beginning his second season with Colorado Ballet.

Morgan BuchananMorgan Buchanan is from Houston, Texas. She trained at the Ballet Center of Houston under the direction of Victoria Vittum and Gilbert Rome. Ms. Buchanan also trained at Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy for two years, under the direction of Sally Rojas and Sabrina Lenzi, where she earned the highest final evaluation

variation score in her class. Before joining the Colorado Ballet Studio Company in 2009, Ms. Buchanan attended summer programs with American Ballet Theatre, Orlando Ballet and Houston Ballet. In 2011, she performed Emery LeCrone’s Archetypes at the Vail International Dance Festival. Her notable roles with Colorado Ballet include Wendy in Michael Pink’s Peter Pan, Vitality Fairy and Jewels in The Sleeping Beauty, Moyna in Giselle, Autumn Fairy and Fairy Godmother in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Dew Drop in The Nutcracker, and First Passerby in Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free. This is Ms. Buchanan’s seventh season with Colorado Ballet.

Mackenzie Dessens

Mackenzie Dessens is from New Orleans, Louisiana where she began her training at Giacobbe Academy of Dance and privately with Kimberly Beck. She attended summer programs in New York with the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theater. Ms. Dessens continued her training at Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson

Academy and upon completion joined Cincinnati Ballet’s second company. With Cincinnati Ballet, Dessens’ repertoire included Peter Pan, 7th Symphony, The Nutcracker, Alice, Symphony in C, and the world premiere of King Arthur’s Camelot, in which she performed as the Lady of the Lake. Dessens was chosen to perform as Guinevere in the “Wedding Pas de Deux” for the second company’s rep to promote the new ballet throughout the season. Her second year, Victoria Morgan chose her to perform as Clara in a recreation of the pas between Clara and the Prince from The Nutcracker. She also had the opportunity of working with Jennifer Archibald and received a solo and pas in her piece for the second company. This is Mackenzie’s first season with Colorado Ballet.

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DancersMegan Dillon

Originally from Syracuse, NY, Megan began dancing with Cathy Mucci at Dance Centre North where she trained until moving to New Jersey in 2004. In NJ, she continued her dance training at the Academy of Dance Arts in Red Bank with Jennifer James Church and Shayne and Nick Mishoe. In 2010, she was accepted into Miami

City Ballet School’s Pre-Professional Division, where she trained for a year before moving to Philadelphia, PA to train under the direction of Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff at The Rock School for Dance Education. Megan has attended summer programs at American Academy of Ballet, School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, The Rock School, and Chautauqua School of Dance. Megan joined Charlotte Ballet 2 (formerly North Carolina Dance Theatre) in 2013 where she had the opportunity to perform a soloist role of Spring Fairy in Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Cinderella. Megan then joined Ballet Met 2 in 2014 where she performed in the world premiere of Edwaard Liang’s Cinderella. Some of her other favorite professional repertoire includes Balanchine’s Western Symphony, Sasha Janes’s Carmen, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s The Nutcracker, Jimmy Orrante’s The Great Gatsby and Dwight Rhoden’s Othello. This is Megan’s first season with Colorado Ballet.

Emily DixonEmily was born in Lubbock, Texas and she was raised in Colleyville, Texas. She received her training at the Ballet Academy of Texas under the direction of Lisa Slagle. Upon graduating high school, Emily joined Tulsa Ballet II where she danced for two seasons. In 2009, Emily accepted a corps de ballet contract with The Sarasota

Ballet. During her five seasons in Sarasota, Emily had the opportunity to perform a wide variety of repertoire including works by Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, Antony Tudor, Paul Taylor, Sir Peter Wright, Will Tuckett, Matthew Bourne, Dominic Walsh, Peter Darrell, Agnes De Mille, Johan Kobborg, among others. Some highlights in her career include performing in Ashton’s Monotones II; 5 girls in Balanchine’s Who Cares?; Surabaya Johnny in Christopher Wheeldon’s There Where She Loved; Emilia in Peter Darrell’s Othello; The Violetta Elvin Solo in Ashton’s Birthday Offering; and the pas de deux in Will Tuckett’s Speilende Kinder. Other favorite ballets in Emily’s repertoire include Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations, The Four Temperaments, Diamonds, Concerto Barocco and Serenade; Ashton’s Les Patineurs, La Fille Mal Gardee, and The Two Pigeons. Emily also had the opportunity to perform both Diamonds and Les Patineurs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with the Sarasota Ballet. Emily joined Colorado Ballet in 2014 and enjoyed adding works such as Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Michael Pink’s Dracula, Christopher Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, and George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco to her repertoire. This is Emily’s second season with Colorado Ballet.

Kevin HaleBorn in Warren, New Jersey but raised in England, Kevin began dancing at the age of 5. At the age of 11, he was accepted into The Royal Ballet School where he graduated from in July 2013. Kevin has won the Kenneth McMillan Choreographic Competition twice and had one of his ballets performed at the school’s annual

show at the Royal Opera House. During his graduate year, Kevin performed with The Royal Ballet in various ballets including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, La Valse and The Sleeping Beauty. His repertoire also includes Jirí Bubenícek’s Canon in D Major, Bejart’s 7 Greek Dances and Ashley Page’s Larina Waltz. He has also been featured as a dancer on the BBC. Kevin joined Colorado Ballet in 2013. During the 2013-2014 season, Kevin performed as one of the Stepsisters in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella. This is Kevin’s third season with Company.

Tracy Jones

Born in Cork, Ireland, Tracy began to dance at the age of 5 with Ballet Theatre Ireland. Tracy trained professionally at The Royal Ballet School in London where she graduated from in 2007. In 2006, Tracy was a winner of the Ursula Moreton choreographic competition and a finalist of the Young British Dancer of the Year.

During her graduate year, Tracy performed with the Royal Ballet in various ballets and joined them on their 2007 International tour to Mexico and the USA. Upon graduating, Tracy joined the English National Ballet as an Artist where she performed in the UK and toured to Beijing, China. From 2008 to 2012, Tracy was a member of the Barcelona Ballet under the direction of Angel Corella. With this company, Tracy danced various soloist and principal roles including the 3rd principal couple in Christopher Wheeldon’s DGV, the 3rd Shade variation and Tall Pas D’Action in Natalia Makarova’s La Bayadere, Pas de Trois and Big Swans in Swan Lake and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, among others. Tracy joined Colorado Ballet during the 2012-13 season. In June 2013, she was named as one of 10 “Stars in the Corps” by Pointe Magazine. Since joining the company, her notable roles have included “Zulma” in Giselle, the Arabian divertissement in The Nutcracker, Summer Fairy in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Principal couple in Sandra Brown’s The Last Beat, Hermia in Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Pas De Deux Girl in Jerome Robbin’s Fancy Free.


Bryce LeeBryce Lee began dancing at the age of 12 in Ventura County, CA. At the age of 13, he began studying classical ballet with Dmitri and Jennifer Kulev at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy. He attended School of American Ballet’s Winter Term where he studied under Jock Soto, Sean Lavery and Andrei Kramrevsky.

Bryce has placed at YAGP as both a Senior Men’s Classical and Contemporary Soloist and has attended the New York Finals twice. He and his partner won First Place in YAGP Europe 2013 for the Le Corsaire Pas d’Esclave Pas de Deux. He has been a two-time Semi-finalist of the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Classical Dance Scholarship Program and a five-year recipient of the Petit Oasis Foundation Scholarship. Bryce has attended summer programs at Miami City Ballet and SAB on scholarship. He joined Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company in 2013. With Colorado Ballet, he has performed in Michael Pink’s Dracula, Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Mother Ginger in The Nutcracker, Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, and Christopher Wheeldon’s and A Midsummer Nights’ Dream. As a guest artist, he has performed the role of Cavalier in The Nutcracker, as well as leading roles in Etudes, Faust, and Donizetti Variations. This is Bryce’s first season with Colorado Ballet.

Christophor MoultonChristophor Moulton born in Colorado Springs, Colorado began his training with Rozanne David at the Dance Center of Colorado Springs and continued his training in Colorado with German Zemuel. He is a graduate of the Harid Conservatory in Florida, where he trained under Svetlana Osiyeva, Olivier Pardina and Victoria

Schnider. During his years at Harid, Mouton performed numerous roles including Siegfried in Swan Lake and the lead in Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante. He also studied for a year at the Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis School under Franco Devita. Moulton is a recipient of the 2007 Rudolph Nureyev Education Fellowship. He joined Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company in 2009 and was promoted into the Company in 2010. During his time he has worked with esteemed choreographers, Val Caniparoli, Amy Seiwert, Edwaard Liang, Ben Stevenson, Stephen Mills, and Michael Pink. He has performed the roles of Lovers in Christopher Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Step Sister in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Arthur in Michael Pink’s Dracula, Hilarion in Giselle, Cavalier in The Nutcracker, and Red in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1.

Sean OmandamSean Omandam is from Fresno, California, where he began his training with Shirley Winters. He later went on to train on full-scholarship at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida under the instruction of Victoria Schneider, Olivier Pardina and Svetlana Osiyeva. Upon his graduation in 2004, he joined

Colorado Ballet’s Studio Company, and was promoted into the Company in 2005. With Colorado Ballet, Mr. Omandam has performed a variety of featured roles including Puck in Christopher Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Whip Boy in Glen Tetley’s The Rite of Spring, John Darling in Michael Pink’s Peter Pan, Green Man in Lila York’s Celts, Champion Roper in Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, Max in Septime Webre’s Where the Wild Things Are and Russian in Martin Freedman’s The Nutcracker. His repertory also includes works by Lar Lubovitch, Amy Seiwert, Edwaard Liang, Jodie Gates, Matthew Neenan, Dwight Rhoden, Darrell Grand Moultire, and Jessica Lang, among others. In 2007, he was a competitor and gala performer at the New York International Ballet Competition. In the summer of 2013, Mr. Omandam was featured as a contestant on the premiere season of the South Korean television show, Dancing 9.

Kristine PadgettKristine Padgett was born in Littleton, Colorado and began dancing at the age of three. At eleven years old, she started training professionally at the Academy of Colorado Ballet under Elizabeth Shipiatsky. From 2006 to 2014, Ms. Padgett attended summer intensives and school training programs all over the

world including American Ballet Theater in New York City, the Royal Ballet School in Richmond, England, and Bolshoi Ballet Summer Intensive in New York City. In 2011, Ms. Padgett won a full scholarship to perform at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s spring gala in Moscow, Russia and then attended year round for the 2012-2013 school year. While in Russia, Ms. Padgett trained under Irina Sirova, and had the opportunity to perform in many productions including soloist roles in La Fille Mal Gardee, The Nutcracker, and several character dances. Ms. Padgett returned to Colorado Ballet as a studio company member in 2013 and has danced in many of their productions. This will be Ms. Padgett’s first season as a company member.

Alexandra Pullen

Alexandra Pullen was born in Nashville, Tennessee and was raised in Chicago, Illinois, where she began her initial ballet training at a local community center. Pullen studied at Dance Center Evanston, Evanston School of Ballet, and Chicago Ballet Arts, and the Ruth Page School of Dance, where she joined their company, the Civic

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DancersBallet of Chicago. She trained on scholarship at the Joffrey Academy of Ballet in Chicago under Anna Reznik and Alexei Kremnev. She toured with the Joffrey Trainees to perform as Clara in The Nutcracker Suite. She studied on scholarship at summer programs of the San Francisco Ballet School, School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. In 2012, Pullen competed in the Youth America Grand Prix Chicago Semi-Finals and received a gold medal in the classical category and a silver medal in the contemporary category. She was a Finalist in New York City. In September 2012, Pullen was awarded the Shoot for Change Scholarship to attend the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre, and joined ABT Studio Company two weeks later. Pullen joined ABT as an apprentice 2013 and was promoted to the corps de ballet in 2014. With ABT, Pullen’s rep included Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Swan Lake, Coppelia, Ashton’s The Dream, Manon, Cinderella, Gaite Parisienne, La Bayadere, and Twyla Tharp’s Bach Partita. She went on tour with ABT to Abu Dhabi, Australia, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis. This is her second with Colorado Ballet.

Emily Speed

Emily Speed is originally from Argyle, TX and began her professional training under Marina Almayeva. In 2006, she was a Finalist at World Ballet Competition, in Orlando, Florida. Ms. Speed won first place in the classical division at the 2007 Youth American Grand Prix Regionals. Emily was one out of a hundred participants worldwide

who qualified and competed in the 2010 Varna International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria and in 2014, went to the USA IBC in Jackson, MS. During her career, she has danced professionally with Alabama Ballet, Ballet Tucson and Boulder Ballet. Ms. Speed has performed multiple principle and soloist roles including, Flower Girl in Don Quixote, roles in George Balanchine’s Serenade and The Nutcracker, Anthony Tudor’s Lilac Garden and Continuo, Daniel Precup’s Bolero, Third Act Raymonda, The Wedding Pas de Duex from Don Quixote, and The Fairy Doll Pas de Trios staged by Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner. Since joining Colorado Ballet in 2014, Emily has performed “Scherzo” in Wheeldon’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, and played the role of Clara in The Nutcracker.

Kevin Gaël ThomasKevin Gaël Thomas is from France and studied at Rosella Hightower’s International Ballet Center and at Canada’s National Ballet School, where he received a full scholarship and graduated in 2006, with honors. Mr. Thomas also graduated with honors from the Music Conservatory in France for piano. He then danced for a year

with Houston Ballet II. Mr. Thomas joined Colorado Ballet in 2007. During his first season, he performed well-known roles such as Fritz and Russian in The Nutcracker. He has

been performing Soloist roles in Colorado Ballet productions including Blue Bird and Jewels in The Sleeping Beauty, the Whip Boy in Glen Tetley’s The Rite of Spring, and Jester in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella. In 2012, he performed his first principal role as Peter in Michael Pink’s Peter Pan. Since then, he has danced other leading roles including Puck in Christopher Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the title role in Michael Smuin’s Peter and the Wolf, and the first sailor in Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free. Mr. Thomas was chosen to represent France at the New York International Ballet Competition in 2009 and at the USA Jackson International Ballet Competition in 2010.

Sarah TryonSarah Tryon was born in Hanmer, Ontario, Canada and at the age of 11 was accepted to train at Canada’s National Ballet School. During her six years with NBS, Sarah was selected to partake in exchange programs with various international schools including Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, École Supérieur De Danse

Rosella Hightower in Cannes France, and Tanz Akademie Zurich in Switzerland. Upon graduating in 2010, she then moved to New York City to train with world renowned coach Edward Ellison. In 2013, Sarah was invited to join the Sarasota Ballet as a corps de ballet member. During her two seasons with the Sarasota Ballet, Sarah performed many works by major choreographers such as George Balanchine, Agnes DeMille, Will Tuckett, Rudolph Nureyev, Christopher Bruce, Mikhail Fokine, Paul Taylor, Sir Anthony Tudor, and Sir Frederick Ashton. Highlights of Sarah’s time with the Sarasota Ballet would include performing in Balanchine’s Who Cares?, Serenade, Four Temperaments, and Rubies; Ashton’s Façade, La Fille Mal Gardée, Sinfonietta, Les Patineurs, and Montones I; Christopher Bruces’ Sergeant Early’s Dream; Will Tuckett’s Lux Aterna; Agnes De Milles’ Rodeo; Anthony Tudor’s Gala Performance; Mikhail Fokine’s Petrushka; Paul Taylor’s Company B; and Nureyev’s Raymonda. This is Sarah’s first season with Colorado Ballet.

Luis ValdesLuis Valdes was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and joined Colorado Ballet in 2005. Previously, he performed with the National Ballet of Cuba and Cincinnati Ballet. Mr. Valdes’ favorite role with Colorado Ballet is Espada in Don Quixote. Since joining Colorado Ballet, Valdes has had the opportunity to dance as a guest in modern dance pieces

in Florida, New York, and Iowa. He has had the chance to perform in new works by Val Caniparoli and Amy Seiwert. Mr. Valdes also enjoyed the opportunity to perform The Rite of Spring in Colorado Ballet’s Ballet MasterWorks production in 2013. Some of his favorite choreography includes Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, Paul Taylor’s Company B and Antony Tudor’s Echoing of Trumpets.


DancersKevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson was born in Durango, Colorado. He is a graduate of the Harid Conservatory in Florida, where he trained under Svetlana Osiyeva, Olivier Pardina and Victoria Schnider. He received the Dance Achievement Award for two consecutive years. Kevin has been a member of Colorado Ballet for seven years. He had the pleasure of

dancing in the Corps for Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 and the wedding scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Ben WinegarBen Winegar is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He began his training at the School of the Grand Rapids Ballet at the age of 11. There, he was trained by Attila Mosolygo, Gaiane Akopian, and Akop Akopian, and was given the opportunity to perform in several ballets with the Grand Rapids Ballet Company. In 2010, Ben spent a year training at

the School of American Ballet. Upon graduating, he danced one season with the Los Angeles Ballet under the direction of Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary. This is Ben’s fourth season as a member of Colorado Ballet.

Melissa ZoebischMelissa grew up in Mexico and studied at the Chamber Ballet of Jalisco. She was awarded a scholarship to attend for a year at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Mme, Sizova’s class, and returned to Mexico to graduate in 2004. Throughout her school years, she participated in many workshops around the world including: Cuba,

Canada, Austria, Spain and the United States. In 2005, Ms. Zoebisch joined the National Dance Company, where she obtained soloist roles in her first year in ballets including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Carmen. Her other repertoire includes principal roles in Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Pas de Deux from Le Corsaire, original contemporary choreographies, and many others. She was a finalist at the Korea International Ballet Competition, 2010; recipient of a Special Award KIBC. Before joining Colorado Ballet in 2014, she had been freelancing with her husband around the country.

Guest ArtistsGregory K. Gonzales, Guest Dancer

Gregory graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Kinesiology/Dance. His teachers include Larry Boyette, James Clouser, Nadia Tikhanova, Milenko Banovic and Sandra Minton among others. He received a scholarship in dance and Best Dancer Award while at UNC and was a full scholarship student at

the American Dance Festival. Gregory spent the bulk of his career at Colorado Ballet where he was promoted to principal in 1997 and danced leading roles as well as character roles in works by major choreographers such as Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, George Balanchine, Eugene Loring, Christopher Wheeldon, Toru Shimazaki and Doug Varone. Gregory has also danced with Ballet Pacifica, Ballet Arizona, Nevada Dance Theater, David Taylor Dance Theater, Kim Robards Dance, The Wylliams-Henry Dance Theater and Zikr Dance, among others. He has danced with Opera Colorado and as a principal for Les Ballets Grandiva completing a multicity tour of Japan in the summer of 2011. Gregory was a co-founder of On Edge Productions staging combat and comedy at numerous festivals. He was adjudicated by The Society of American Fight Directors and was recommended in rapier and dagger. He was a Choreographer in Residence for Colorado Ballet from 2003-2004 and created such works as Carmina Burana, Peter Pan (both co-choreographed), Broken Web, Incantation and Last Breath. Gregory has also set work for the David Taylor Dance Theater, Ballet Ariel,

University of Northern Colorado and Denver Independent Choreographer’s Project, as well as others. He plays guitar for the Natural Tango Oquesta Tipica and also enjoys theater and film work and has been cast in several independent film projects in the Denver area.

Valerie Madonia, Guest Artist

Valerie Madonia started her training with Maris Battaglia at the American Academy of Ballet in Buffalo, NY and then at Canada’s National Ballet School from 1975-1979 where she received the Peter Dwyer Award for Excellence in Dance. She danced professionally for more than 20 years with the National Ballet of Canada from1979-1981 (under the

direction of Alexander Grant), at American Ballet Theatre 1981-1986 (under Mikhail Baryshnikov) and at the Joffrey Ballet 1987-1997 (under Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino). She began her career as a member of the corps de ballet and eventually established herself as a leading ballerina with the Joffrey Ballet. Madonia had the honor of dancing with Alonzo Kings Lines Ballet, Armitage Gone! Dance, Complexions Dance, Inc., Alaska Dance Theatre, Russian Ballet Theatre, Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet, Configuration Ballet and at Le Gala des Etoiles numerous times in Montreal and Greece. She performed the role of the Princess in Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 2001 and with the New York Philharmonic


La Sylphide 2015-2016 Colorado Ballet OrchestraViolin 1Lydia Sviatlovskya* Concert MasterDebra HollandCynthia MancinelliLian EmmerlingTakanori SugishitaMargaret Soper Gutierrez Britt SwensonAnnamaria Karacsony

Violin 2Leslie Sawyer*Gyongyver PetheoMichelle DavisAnne PauluAngela DombrowskiChris Jusell

ViolaErika Eckert*Michael BrookLora StevensStephanie Mientka

CelloCharles Lee*Carole Whitney Karen TerbeekTrevor Minton

BassJames Vaughn*David Crowe

FluteElizabeth Sadilek*Olga Shylayeva (Piccolo)

OboeKathryn Dupuy*Lauren Blackerby

ClarinetMichelle Orman*Debra Wilbur

BassoonKaori Uno-Jack*Brian Jack

French HornDevon Park*Steve SimpsonLauren VarleyStuart Mock

TrumpetJohn King*Derek McDonald

TromboneWilliam Stanley*Rob Olds

Bass TromboneJim Gray

TimpaniMark Foster*

Percussion Douglas Walter*Scott Higgins

HarpPam Eldridge*

*Principal

Orchestra Personnel ManagerSteve Simpson

Orchestra LibrarianCynthia Mancinelli

Colorado Ballet Orchestra members are represented by the Denver Musicians Association, Local 20-623 of the American Federation of Musicians

Colorado Ballet Studio CompanyFront Row (L to R): Molly Huempfner, Toni Martin, Riko Fujita, Tracy Fuller, Lauren Watts, Katie Buckmiller

Back Row: Melissa Meng, Hannah Stolrow, Regan Kucera, Sara VanderVoort, Bryton Foster, Miyuki Abe, Molly Klug, Tyler Rhoads

Not Pictured:Camille Robinson

in 2005, conducted by Alan Gilbert and accompanied by Pinkus Zuckerman. In 1995, Madonia began organizing performances with other professional dancers to tour Southwestern Colorado and established her own company, Alpine Dance, Inc. from 1998-2001. Madonia appeared in six PBS Dance in America Specials and is featured in four dance books including Classical Ballet Technique by G.W. Warren. Her choreographic credits include a full length

Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Polar Express, Appalachian Spring, solo works for the NYC Dance Now Festival, and for dancers in Colorado Ballet, Ballet West and Dayton Ballet. Critics and audiences alike enthusiastically received her newest work, Shapeshift, commissioned for Boulder Ballet in 2012. She has been the Colorado Ballet Academy Director since fall of 2013..

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Principal dancer Maria Mosina has spent the last 20 of her 25 years as a professional dancer at Colorado Ballet. For her, ballet is about hard work, love, passion and artistry.

Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, she says that from as far back as she can remember, she always loved to dance, move around and act. Her mother enrolled her in the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, where she studied academics and ballet. “I’m so grateful to my mom,” says Mosina. “She saw in me that I have this passion that I can use as a profession, to become a professional ballet dancer.” From the time she was 10 years old, Mosina knew she would become a professional ballerina.

Mosina spent nine years at the Academy and took her training very seriously. After she completed her training, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Company. Mosina says that she was lucky because she danced soloist and principal roles soon after joining the Company. She toured all over the world, appearing on all major European, American, African and Asian stages. “I realized that the art of ballet, it’s truly a universal art that can bring cultures and countries together.”

She spent five years with the Company, then moved to the United States to work with new choreographers, new ballets and perform different styles of dance. In 1995, Mosina joined Colorado Ballet and she danced soloist and principal roles within her first season. Since then, she has performed major roles in Colorado Ballet’s classical productions and contemporary works. “I’m so fortunate to have a job that fulfills and inspires me,” says Mosina. “I get pleasure from dancing. I was born to give people happiness on the stage.”

Mosina says that Colorado Ballet continues to grow every year. While the company does the same classical repertoire, new dancers, choreographers and repettituers bring in their own styles and slightly different versions, making the ballets a little different each time. In addition, she says that new choreographers creating works on the company inspires her to move forward and to keep working.

When asked about her favorite role over the years, she says it is difficult to choose just one role that stands out the most. “All of my roles have taught me a lot and when I go into the studio every day, I learn something new. I’m constantly changing in my art; it’s also constantly evolving with me.”

She tries to use her life experiences to bring something new to her art. “I believe that my dance was changed when my daughter was born. It became more emotional, and I put more emotions on stage.

Mosina with daughter Sofia during The Nutcracker

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Being a ballerina and a mom is a challenge and a joy.” Knowing that her daughter watches her from the audience brings her even more happiness while performing on the stage.

A career spanning 20 years at a single company is somewhat rare in the ballet world. Mosina says that she is lucky that she has not had any major injuries and she still loves what she does. “I think my passion and love still pushes me forward all the time. I still love what I’m doing. I believe that ballet is not just about the number of pirouettes you can do or how high you can kick your leg; ballet is an art and there is no age limit to express yourself.”

Mosina says that many people have helped her throughout her career. “I would like to dedicate my 20th year to all the teachers, mentors, coaches, choreographers, people who are around me, my friends, my partners on stage that have helped me to get to where I am today. And especially to my mom, she passed away one year ago. She was my first fan and my friend.”

Mosina also has advice for the next generation of aspiring dancers: study and learn everything that it takes to be a good dancer. She recommends that dancers concentrate on what they are doing, even in their daily routines. When dancers are resting in the summer, she says they must work on some kind of physical improvement. Mosina also encourages dancers to give the audience something to think about and find ways to inspire them. “If you want to become a professional dancer, you have to take it seriously. It’s not fun, all day. It’s hard physically, for the body, and it’s hard emotionally. You have to study, all about the art. And the audience does see or know what you are getting through, those weeks in the studios. But, it’s paid when you’re standing at the end of the performance and you can feel the audience believing in you. You have to be passionate, honest and sincere with yourself, and the audience will feel that.”

What does the future hold for Mosina? She completed her studies with a degree in ballet pedagogy. “I believe that when I’ve finished my dancing career, I plan to stay in the ballet world, when I retire…someday.”

For more information on Maria Mosina’s 20th season, please follow the stories and watch videos about her on our social media channels. Colorado Ballet Principal Dancer Sharon Wehner is also in her 20th season at Colorado Ballet. She will be featured in the Alice (in Wonderland) program.

Top: Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Middle: Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Company. Bottom: Don Quixote, photo by Terry Shapiro.

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