Ettore

Although The Sarasota Ballet has only performed one of John Cranko's works (Pineapple Poll), he had a significant influence on Margaret Barbieri's,our Assistant Director, career and Iain Webb, our Director, always had a huge passion for Cranko and Stuttgart Ballet - and so I thought it might be appropriate to share a few photos from Iain's office as he has a plaster cast of Cranko's death mask on this fiftieth anniversary. (I know Iain's been looking to add more Cranko ballet's to our repertoire, so fingers crossed!)

Unfortunately the streaming of performances ends up being more complicated that just copyrights and permissions (which are incredibly complicated on their own). It's also the mechanics and theater time to be able to film and record, as the set ups (or at least with the resources we have at our disposal) require an almost completely different technical set up than that of in-person performances. This would then almost double the amount of time we would need to be in the theater and we're just not able to increase our theater access time. We would of course love to be able to do so, and LOVE to be able to perform in the UK, but that would require an invite (so if anyone has connections with the Sadler's Wells, start pestering!). I would say that Sarasota does make a rather beautiful holiday destination, and there are several other quite remarkable arts organizations here in town, including the Sarasota Orchestra who just brought in Bramwell Tovey as their Music Director. Maybe we could help organize a BalletCo tour to Sarasota!?

Hello! Just to pop my head in (Marketing Director for The Sarasota Ballet), the ballet was originally created on The Royal Ballet School for the school's Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 1997. He's mostly creating the ballet anew on our Company, so the choreography will most likely be entirely different - although inspired by what he originally created (which is why we're referring to it as a World Premiere). It's not quite the right 'title,' but it's a lot easier to describe to people than what I just wrote! Hope that clears things up! Also, just wanted to say how happy I am to see everyone's excitement for our new season!

Thank you Jan and Sim for your kind words about the Company. I know that Iain and Margaret would LOVE to bring The Sarasota Ballet to the UK, hopefully a theatre hears this and helps sponsor a tour! I'll try not to make my shadowy lurking too obvious!

Hi Alison, I'm so sorry to see that you've had problems with our site. You shouldn't need to sign up or enter a password to purchase tickets, however, if you send me an email at jettore@sarasotaballet.org I'd be more than happy to organize a link to be sent to you so that you don't miss out on this program. Sincerely, - Jason Ettore (Marketing Director for The Sarasota Ballet)