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SPOTLIGHT
For Those Left Behind
“A densely layered,
colorful and amazingly
touching ballet.”
~ Jasmina Wellinghoff
San Antonio Express-News
In This Issue
SA Met Ballet Season
34 Highlights
Summer Dance 2017
Lauren Anderson
SA300 Official Partner
Regional Dance
America National
Festival
Dance Kaleidoscope
2017 “For Those Left Behind” by Karin Connally Heiden © Sharen Bradford, The Dancing Image
SA Met Ballet Plans for Season 34 During our rich 33-year history, SA Met Ballet has provided high quality training for the talented
youth of San Antonio and has exposed thousands of children to the wonders of the performing arts
through our Educational Outreach Programs. SA Met Ballet’s 34th Season will offer extraordinary
guest artists, groundbreaking choreography and family-friendly programming to the San Antonio
community.
2017-18 Proposed Season Calendar Summer Dance 2017 presented by SA Met Ballet & Connally’s Dance Workshop, Inc.
Faculty including Lauren Anderson (Houston Ballet) and Lauren Ader (Ballet 5:8)
July 31-August 12; Admission free demonstration August 13 at The Carver Jo Long Theatre
The Magic Toyshop Public and Children’s Series performances
Venue TBA, October 2017
The Nutcracker, presented by ARTS San Antonio
with Mejia Ballet International and San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet
Lila Cockrell Theatre, December 21-23, 2017
SA300 Tricentennial Concert with YOSA featuring For Those Left Behind
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, February 11, 2018
RDA/SW Festival, hosted by Collin County Dance Theatre
March 15-17, 2018, Richardson, TX
Dance Kaleidoscope 30th Anniversary Concert—Spring Fling
Venue TBA, May 2017
San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet Quarterly Newsletter June 2017
SAMB performs at RDA National Festival in Phoenix, May 2017 Regional Dance America hosted its fourth-ever National Festival in its 61-year
history in Phoenix, May 2-6, 2017, featuring 1,275 dancers from 78 nationwide pre-
professional dance companies. SAMB performed the contemporary ballet, “Swells”,
choreographed by Jessica Lang Company dancer, Patrick Coker on the closing
evening performance. Company members took a range of technique classes
including Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Pointe & Variations, Jazz or Hip Hop,
Folklorico,and Improvisation. Dancers also took various seminar classes including
“Nutrition for Great Performances”, “Rhythm Matters” or “Musical Concepts”, “Tune
Up your Turn Out”, “Sew What’s New” by Bloch Dancewear and “Performance
Expression”.
SAMB Dancers receive Scholarships and Recognition
Three upper company-level dancers participated in the RDA/SW region scholarship
audition on May 3rd.
Senior Company Member, Rowan: Loraine Cranford Full Dancer Scholarship
to the RDA National Choreography Intensive, and Full Tuition Scholarship to the
Louisiana Delta Ballet summer intensive
Senior Company Member, Camille: Artistic Acceptance to the Kirov Academy
summer intensive
Junior Company Member, Lauren: Josephine Schwartz $500 Dancer
Scholarship to the RDA National Choreography Intensive
SAMB Directors certify to teach Progressing Ballet Technique
SAMB Directors, Susan Connally and Karin Heiden, and Artist in Residence, Cassandra
Shaffer-Permenter, participated in a one-day certification for the Progressing Ballet Technique
teacher’s program. This program utilizes exercise balls and elastic bands to gain an
understanding of muscle memory in activating “turn out”, enhancing “adage movements”,
accelerating “allegro”, learning the appropriate age level for each exercise and how to transfer
this knowledge to the ballet class.
SAMB Partners with YOSA
for SA300 Performance at
The Tobin
On February 11th, SA Met Ballet
will collaborate with the Youth
Orchestras of San Antonio to
present an evening of music and
dance celebrating San Antonio’s
300th birthday. This concert will
feature Karin Heiden’s 16-cast
member ballet, “For Those Left
Behind” with YOSA’s Symphonic
Ensemble.
For Those Left Behind, © The Dancing Image
“Swells” © Richard Calmes, Class Photography—Nancy Medina
Featured Faculty:
Lauren Anderson (Houston Ballet)
Native Houstonian, Lauren
Anderson danced with
Houston Ballet from 1983 to
2006, performing lead roles
in all the great classical
ballets, appearing across the
world to critical acclaim, and
in the process, becoming
one of Houston Ballet’s most
beloved stars. She trained
exclusively at Houston
Ballet’s Ben Stevenson
Academy from the age of
seven. She joined Houston
Ballet in 1983 as a Corps de
Ballet dancer, 1987 was
promoted to Soloist and in
1990 became the first
African American to be
promoted to Principal
Dancer at Houston Ballet.
She is also one of the few
African Americans ballerinas
at the head of a major ballet
company anywhere in the
world.
In January 2007, Ms.
Anderson assumed her new
role heading Houston
Ballet’s Education and
Community Engagement
program. Spring 2016, Ms.
Anderson was included in a
permanent exhibit in the
Smithsonian’s National
Museum of African
American History and
Culture.
Ms. Anderson first
performed with SA Met
Ballet as a principal guest
artist in 1998-2000 in
Coppelia, then again as
Cinderella in 2001-2003. We
are thrilled to bring her to
San Antonio this summer as
a featured faculty member
for Summer Dance 2017.
Featured Faculty, Lauren Anderson; Summer Dance Class Photos—Ballet, PBT, Contemporary
Summer Dance 2017 July 31—August 12
This summer will celebrate 30 years of presenting summer dance intensives with
SAMB training school, Connally’s Dance Workshop, Inc. Summer Dance faculty
have included famed dance masters such as Fernando Bujones, Harrison
McEldowney, Eugene Slavin, Alun Jones, and Piotr Nardelli.
Dancers will train in three different levels studying ballet, modern and
contemporary, jazz, Progressing Ballet Technique, arts and crafts, injury
prevention, dance terminology and dance-related crafts.
Lauren Anderson will work with Levels Two and Three teaching ballet, pointe and
repertoire. Karin Heiden will begin staging her ballet, “For Those Left Behind” and
Mrs. Connally will begin staging her fall ballet, “The Magic Toyshop.” Other works
will be learned for the free public demonstration performance on August 13th at
The Carver, and for spring concerts.
Contact Us
For more information on our
season and how you can get
involved, please visit our
website:
www.sametballet.org
Susan Beil Connally
Artistic Director
Karin Connally Heiden
Associate Director/Admin
Affiliations:
Regional Dance America
Performing Member Company
SA2020 Partner
SA300 Official Partner
Training School:
Connally’s Dance Workshop, Inc.
Dance Kaleidoscope 2017 SAMB’s 29th Annual spring performance at The Majestic Theatre included new
works by Jacqueline Courchene, Karin Heiden and student choreographer Rowan
Casillas, with repertoire which included George Skibine’s “The Firebird” staged by
Thom Clower. © Still Life Photography by Alex Devora
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