CASTING: GARLAND / ROBERTS / ROWE PREMIERES
GARLAND / ROBERTS / ROWE PREMIERES
HAFFNER SERENADE
CHOREOGRAPHER
Robert Garland
COMPOSER
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pamela Allen-Cummings costume career started at Dance Theatre of Harlem after receiving a BFA in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute. The many positions she held while at DTH included Wardrobe Assistance to Supervisor, Costume Shop Manager to Director of Costumes/Resident Designer.
Her many construction projects are for Sesame Street, Angels in America, Tempest, NY Shakespeare Festivals, Playhouse, Dance in America, Ballet Hispanico, Alvin Ailey, Cadillac Records, Westchester Broadway Theatre, New York Fashion Weeks, Opera, Film and Television.
Pamela’s Costume Design and Execution credits for Choreographer Robert Garland are Acid Dreams and Nightmares, Crossing Over, New Bach, Return, Gloria, Brahms Variations, Nyman’s String Quartet #2, Higher Ground.
She is proud to have Designed Robert Garland’s latest Ballet “Haffner Serenade.”
Jim French, lighting supervisor for San Francisco Ballet, designs lighting for performing arts and live events. At SF Ballet, he has created lighting for world premieres by Christopher Wheeldon, Myles Thatcher, Arthur Pita, Trey McIntyre, Yuri Possokhov, and Benjamin Millepied, among others. After working with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Twyla Tharp Dance, French spent nine years as resident designer for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Locally, he has worked with Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Bandaloop, ODC Dance, Post:Ballet, SF Danceworks, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, and Sacramento Ballet. Other credits include Ballett Basel, Carte Blanche, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Ballet West, National Ballet of Finland, and collaborations with choreographers Jessica Lang, Crystal Pite, Pascal Rioult, and Val Caniparoli. He has been house lighting designer at SF Jazz, and volunteers for Dancers Responding to AIDS and Bike East Bay.
Tai Jimenez is a ballet and yoga instructor, choreographer, and former Principal dancer with both Dance Theatre of Harlem and Boston Ballet. Her DTH repertory included the title roles in Giselle and Firebird, numerous works by George Balanchine, Glen Tetley, Sir Frederick Ashton, Bronislava Nijinska, Robert Garland, John Alleyne, Alonzo King and many others. At Boston Ballet, she originated a role in Mark Morris’ Up and Down and was also seen in Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena, and Jorma Elo’s Carmen. She has appeared as a guest artist with the New York City Ballet and companies across the United States. She made her Broadway debut as Ivy Smith (Miss Turnstiles) in the 1998 revival of On the Town, originated the roles of Fran in Maria Irene Fornes’ Letters from Cuba and Ysabel in Debbie Allen’s Soul Possessed. She was a featured dancer at the Academy Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, and in pop superstar Prince’s Rave Unto the Year 2000. She has taught at Harvard University, Phillips Academy in Andover, Boston Ballet, was an Assistant Professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and is currently the interim director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School.
RESURRECTION
CHOREOGRAPHY AND SCENIC DESIGN
Jamar Roberts
COMPOSER
Gustav Mahler
Jermaine Terry is a freelance designer and professional dancer based out of NYC. He has designed costumes for New York City Ballet, Ailey II, and PHILADANCO! among others. This year, Mr. Terry was nominated for a NY Emmy for his collaboration with The Black Iris Project, WILD: Bird of Paradise. Pieces from his custom evening-wear design brand, J Marchell, have been featured digitally in Vogue, Essence, and have been photographed by the late Bill Cunningham for the style section of The New York Times. Mr. Terry is also currently an artist at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
Jim French, lighting supervisor for San Francisco Ballet, designs lighting for performing arts and live events. At SF Ballet, he has created lighting for world premieres by Christopher Wheeldon, Myles Thatcher, Arthur Pita, Trey McIntyre, Yuri Possokhov, and Benjamin Millepied, among others. After working with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Twyla Tharp Dance, French spent nine years as resident designer for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Locally, he has worked with Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Bandaloop, ODC Dance, Post:Ballet, SF Danceworks, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, and Sacramento Ballet. Other credits include Ballett Basel, Carte Blanche, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Ballet West, National Ballet of Finland, and collaborations with choreographers Jessica Lang, Crystal Pite, Pascal Rioult, and Val Caniparoli. He has been house lighting designer at SF Jazz, and volunteers for Dancers Responding to AIDS and Bike East Bay.
Alessio Crognale from Abruzzo, Italy, joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2017 and dances featured roles in Graham’s Errand into the Maze, Embattled Garden and Diversion of Angels as the Man in White as well as in works by Pontus Lidberg, Michelle Dorrance, Larry Kegwin, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Micaela Taylor, Juliano Nunes, Sonya Tayeh and among others. Mr. Crognale graduated with high honors from Centro Studio Coreografici Teatro Carcano in Milan and from the Graham School where he was a member of Graham 2.
MADCAP
CHOREOGRAPHER
Danielle Rowe
COMPOSER
Pär Hagström
MUSIC ARRANGED BY
Philip Feeney
Emma Kingsbury trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, Australia. She has designed extensively for ballet, opera, television, and film. Most recently Kingsbury designed costumes for the feature film Blacklight and Danielle Rowe’s Wooden Dimes, part of SF Ballet’s 2021 Digital Season. She has designed for Scottish Ballet and a number of American ballet companies including Atlanta Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Richmond Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Smuin Ballet, and Texas Ballet Theater. In 2022, Kingsbury is designing Cinderella for the Royal New Zealand Ballet with choreographer Loughlan Prior and a work for Hessisches Staatsballett with choreographer Marc Brew.
Garen Scribner is a creative producer and arts entrepreneur. Founder of GarenMedia, he is the creator and host of the broadcast TV series Broadway Sandwich and the creator and executive producer of And The Nominees Are, both for New York Public Media (PBS/WNET/ALL ARTS). As a performer, Garen starred as Jerry in the Broadway + National Tour productions of An American in Paris, was a soloist with the San Francisco Ballet, and artist of Nederlands Dans Theater 1. He originated and performed leading roles in works by Mark Morris, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Christopher Wheeldon, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, to name a few. He starred as The Matador in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of La Traviata (2019, 2020), simulcast around the world in cinemas for Great Performances on PBS. He co-founded Dance For a Reason in 2012, an annual benefit performance that has successfully raised $500,000+ for non-profit organizations like the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, UCSF Melanoma Center, and the International Rescue Committee, among others. In May ‘22, Garen earned a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Martin West
JULIA ROWE, ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ
Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo
Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
DORES ANDRÉ, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ
WANTING ZHAO, AARON ROBISON
Samantha Bristow, Isabella DeVivo, Ellen Rose Hummel, Pemberley Ann Olson
Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, Steven Morse, Adrian Zeisel
MADCAP
Conductor: Martin West
The Clown: TIIT HELIMETS
The Oracle: JENNIFER STAHL
The Juggled: MAX CAUTHORN, ALEXIS VALDES, WEI WANG
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: SASHA DE SOLA
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: THAMIRES CHUVAS, LEILI RACKOW, TYLA STEINBACH, JAMIE ADELE STEPHENS
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Martin West
JULIA ROWE, ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ
Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo
Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
DORES ANDRÉ, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ
WANTING ZHAO, AARON ROBISON
Samantha Bristow, Isabella DeVivo, Ellen Rose Hummel, Pemberley Ann Olson
Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, Steven Morse, Adrian Zeisel
MADCAP
Conductor: Martin West
The Clown: TIIT HELIMETS
The Oracle: JENNIFER STAHL
The Juggled: MAX CAUTHORN, ALEXIS VALDES, WEI WANG
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: SASHA DE SOLA
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: THAMIRES CHUVAS, LEILI RACKOW, TYLA STEINBACH, JAMIE ADELE STEPHENS
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Martin West
ISABELLA DEVIVO, CAVAN CONLEY
Juliana Bellissimo, Carmela Mayo, Nicole Moyer, Angela Watson
Estéban Cuadrado, Benjamin Davidoff, Alexander Reneff-Olson, John-Paul Simoens
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
DORES ANDRÉ, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ
WANTING ZHAO, AARON ROBISON
Samantha Bristow, Isabella DeVivo, Ellen Rose Hummel, Pemberley Ann Olson
Rubén Cítores Nieto, Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, Steven Morse
MADCAP
Conductor: Martin West
The Clown: MYLES THATCHER
The Oracle: ELIZABETH POWELL
The Juggled: JACOB SELTZER, JASPER TRUE STANFORD, LONNIE WEEKS
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: JASMINE JIMISON
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: KAMRYN BALDWIN, LAUREN PARROTT, TYLA STEINBACH, SEOJEONG YUN
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Martin West
JULIA ROWE, CAVAN CONLEY
SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Carmela Mayo, Nicole Moyer
Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
NORIKA MATSUYAMA, LUKE INGHAM
MAGGIE WEIRICH, MINGXUAN WANG
Olivia Brothers, Jihyun Choi, Blake Johnston, Swane Messaoudi
Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, João Percilio da Silva, Adrian Zeisel
MADCAP
Conductor: Ming Luke
The Clown: TIIT HELIMETS
The Oracle: JENNIFER STAHL
The Juggled: MAX CAUTHORN, ALEXIS VALDES, WEI WANG
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: SASHA DE SOLA
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: THAMIRES CHUVAS, LEILI RACKOW, TYLA STEINBACH, JAMIE ADELE STEPHENS
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Ming Luke
JULIA ROWE, CAVAN CONLEY
Juliana Bellissimo, Carmela Mayo, Nicole Moyer, Angela Watson
Estéban Cuadrado, Benjamin Davidoff, Alexander Reneff-Olson, John-Paul Simoens
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
NORIKA MATSUYAMA, LUKE INGHAM
MAGGIE WEIRICH, MINGXUAN WANG
Olivia Brothers, Jihyun Choi, Blake Johnston, Swane Messaoudi
Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, João Percilio da Silva, Adrian Zeisel
MADCAP
Conductor: Martin West
The Clown: TIIT HELIMETS
The Oracle: JENNIFER STAHL
The Juggled: MAX CAUTHORN, ALEXIS VALDES, WEI WANG
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: SASHA DE SOLA
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: THAMIRES CHUVAS, LEILI RACKOW, TYLA STEINBACH, JAMIE ADELE STEPHENS
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Martin West
ISABELLA DEVIVO, CAVAN CONLEY
Julianna Bellissimo, Gabriela Gonzalez, SunMin Lee, Carmela Mayo
Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
DORES ANDRÉ, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ
WANTING ZHAO, AARON ROBISON
Samantha Bristow, Isabella DeVivo, Ellen Rose Hummel, Pemberley Ann Olson
Rubén Cítores Nieto, Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, Steven Morse
MADCAP
Conductor: Ming Luke
The Clown: MYLES THATCHER
The Oracle: ELIZABETH POWELL
The Juggled: JACOB SELTZER, JASPER TRUE STANFORD, LONNIE WEEKS
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: JASMINE JIMISON
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: KAMRYN BALDWIN, LAUREN PARROTT, TYLA STEINBACH, SEOJEONG YUN
HAFFNER SERENADE
Conductor: Ming Luke
CARMELA MAYO, NATHANIEL REMEZ
Juliana Bellissimo, Gabriela Gonzalez, Nicole Moyer, Angela Watson
Estéban Cuadrado, Benjamin Davidoff, Alexander Reneff-Olson, John-Paul Simoens
RESURRECTION
Conductor: Martin West
An austere and malicious Queen uses her powers of persuasion, beauty, and magic in her quest to find a suitor to love and assist her in the rulership of her tribe.
DORES ANDRÉ, ISAAC HERNÁNDEZ
WANTING ZHAO, AARON ROBISON
Samantha Bristow, Isabella DeVivo, Ellen Rose Hummel, Pemberley Ann Olson
Rubén Cítores Nieto, Lucas Erni, Andris Kundzins, Steven Morse
Video Tribute: A celebration of Principal Dancer Tiit Helimets and his 18-year career with San Francisco Ballet.
MADCAP
Conductor: Martin West
The Clown: TIIT HELIMETS
The Oracle: JENNIFER STAHL
The Juggled: MAX CAUTHORN, ALEXIS VALDES, WEI WANG
The Red Nose: DAVIDE OCCHIPINTI, HENRY SIDFORD
The Mirror: SASHA DE SOLA
The Kid: PARKER GARRISON
The Oom Pa-Pa's: THAMIRES CHUVAS, TYLA STEINBACH, JAMIE ADELE STEPHENS, SEOJEONG YUN
Final Bow: Please join us in congratulating Tiit and wishing him well for the future.