Photo by Aris Bernales
Diablo Ballet’s Celebrated Masters featuring Red Shoes:
Del Valle Theatre
1963 Tice Valley Blvd, Walnut Creek
Friday, May 4th – Saturday, May 5th, 2018
$25 – $47The program will feature the highly anticipated World Premiere of Red Shoes, choreographed by Diablo Ballet’s Resident Choreographer, Robert Dekkers.
Robert Dekkers new ballet, Red Shoes, is an imaginative interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s timeless fairy tale. Set to the thrilling score by Academy Award nominated composer Philip Glass, the ballet explores the birth, evolution, and ultimate demise of the ego. Red Shoes will feature costumes designed by celebrity fashion designer, Cassidy Haley, who has created for P!nk and Fergie to name a few.
The program also features the stylish quartet from Val Caniparoli’s Stolen Moments (Excerpts), which was originally choreographed for the Richmond Ballet in 2015, with music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Caniparoli states, “Jean-Philippe Rameau’s music, so graceful and attractive, contradicts the man’s public image and what we know of his character. As a man he was secretive, solitary, irritable, proud of his own achievements, brusque, quick to anger and was considered a monomaniac. His music was his passport, and it made up for his lack of social graces”.
Also included on the program is the charming and lyrical pas de deux, Four Norwegian Moods, by Lew Christensen, originally created for the San Francisco Ballet in 1976 in celebration of Christensen’s 25-year anniversary as Artistic Director of that company. The ballet is set to Igor Stravinsky’s Four Norwegian Moods for Orchestra, which was written in 1941 and intended for a film (which never materialized) about Norway during World War II.
Immediately following each performance, ticket holders are invited to stay for a post-performance Q&A with our dancers, choreographers and musicians followed by a dessert and coffee reception where you can meet and mingle with the dancers.