Park City Institute Presents Award-Winning Dance Company Ballet West

Park City Institute is proud to present Ballet West, on Saturday, March 18, at 7:30 PM. The award-winning troupe will launch a striking, all-new program, Works from Within, on the Eccles Center Stage.

"Ballet West, and its Artistic Director, Adam Sklute, have earned acclaim all over the world. Presenting them on the Eccles Center stage is always a great honor," says PCI Executive Director Teri Orr. "This performance will feature four World Premiere ballets by Ballet West artists, designed to tour and perform around the Intermountain region and beyond."

The relationship between Ballet West and Park City Institute dates back to the premiere season of the Institute, then known as the Park City Arts Foundation. This will be Ballet West's third performance on the Eccles Center Main Stage.

"Giving my Ballet West Artists a platform to create-and our audiences an opportunity to experience that creativity-is a vital part of my greater mission to move the art form of ballet into the 21st century," says Sklute. "Being able to tour this program to Park City and beyond gives us a chance to expand peoples' horizons in limitless ways. I am excited by the four choreographers' ideas, which will produce fascinating works."

Based on short treatments workshopped in the fall, Sklute has selected four Company dancers to expand their ideas into full pieces. Inventive, bold, and experimental, audiences have fallen in love with the Company Artists' explorations into their art, and have returned year-after-year to be delighted.

Sklute has chosen the following artists to present at Works from Within this year

• Presenting Kinesis, newly-named Principal Artist Adrian Fry says he was inspired by the merging of Danish culture and the American dance ideals of speed and clarity. Twelve Ballet West dancers will be in costumes designed by another Principal Artist, Emily Adams.

• Bringing a Steeped in Stillness, Corps Artist Kazlyn Nielsen will debut her first choreographic creation to the soft music of Erik Satie. She says the creation has breath and stillness in defiance of the fast-paced world around us.

• Premiering Tremor, Corps Artist Oliver Oguma says his second choreographed work, with a violin Concerto from Philip Glass, is thrilling and exciting. His inspiration is the power of the human body.

• Staging Grief and Integration, Demi Soloist Trevor Naumann's piece is loud and colorful, and addresses the lonely responses humans can have to loss. For this work, Naumann has collaborated with California musician, Boaz Roberts, to create an original score.

All lighting design will be completed by James K. Larsen, Ballet West's lighting designer. Costumes, with the exception of Adrian Fry's piece, will be designed by Ballet West Director of Costume Production, David Heuvel and executed by the Ballet West Costume Shop.

Tickets to Ballet West start at $29. Student tickets are available, through the generosity of donors to the Park City Institute, for $5. For this performance, parents who purchase a full-price ticket in the Amethyst section can add a $5 student ticket in the same section- the up-close experience for the whole family.

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Ballet West was established in Salt Lake City in 1963. The company boasts a rich and varied repertoire, elegant and versatile artists and an American style and legacy that is as dynamic, expansive and unexpected as the Rocky Mountain region it represents. Ballet West has toured the world several times over, presenting the very best in American classical ballet.

Park City Institute is a non-profit organization, dedicated to bringing world-class performances and new ideas to the community. Since 1998, PCI has presented internationally renowned and cutting edge musicians, actors, authors, dancers, speakers and film at The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts (a joint-use facility with the Park City School District). The organization will embark on its 14th season of headliner concerts at Deer Valley Resort next summer. PCI is dedicated to introducing young people to the arts through free student outreach workshops, shows and demonstrations. Since 2010, PCI has offered a free after-school literacy program to students in grades one through 12 at the thinky and entertaining retail-fronted tutoring hub, the Mega-Genius Supply Store and IQ HQ (located at 435 Swede Alley in Old Town). The organization continues to illuminate with Curiosities evenings and the Saints and Sinners Ball.

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