The Sarasota Ballet is proud to have added 163 ballets and divertissements under Iain Webb’s direction through the 2021 - 2022 Season, including 43 world premieres and 7 American premieres. We have presented works by some of the leading choreographers of the past and present, including Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Sir David Bintley, Sir Matthew Bourne, Agnes de Mille, Dame Ninette de Valois, Michel Fokine, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Will Tuckett, Antony Tudor, Christopher Wheeldon, and many more.
Our Repertoire
Sir Frederick Ashton’s A Wedding Bouquet, Apparitions⁺, Birthday Offering, The Dream, Enigma Variations⁺, Façade, Illuminations, Jazz Calendar, La chatte métamorphosée en femme, La Fille mal Gardée, Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous, Marguerite and Armand⁺, Méditation from Thaïs, Monotones I, Monotones II, Rhapsody, Romeo & Juliet (Balcony Scene, Peter Schaufuss production), Scènes de ballet⁺, Sinfonietta†, The Sleeping Beauty (Awakening Pas de Deux, Aurora Variation), Symphonic Variations, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, The Two Pigeons, Valses nobles et sentimentales, Varii Capricci⁺, Voices of Spring Pas de Deux, The Walk to the Paradise Garden
George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Apollo, Bugaku, Diamonds, Divertimento No. 15, Donizetti Variations, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, Prodigal Son, Rubies, Serenade, Stars and Stripes, Tarantella, Theme and Variations, Valse-Fantaisie, Western Symphony, Who Cares? and includes the full-length presentation of Jewels
Sir David Bintley’s Scottish Dances, ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café⁺
Sir Matthew Bourne’s Boutique, The Infernal Galop†
August Bournonville’s Flower Festival in Genzano Pas de Deux, The Jockey Dance, The Kermesse in Bruges Act I Pas de Deux, William Tell Pas de Deux
Christopher Bruce’s Sergeant Early’s Dream
James Buckley’s Anne Frank
John Cranko’s Pineapple Poll
Peter Darrell’s Othello†
Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo
Dame Ninette de Valois’ Checkmate†, The Rake’s Progress
Robert de Warren’s The Nutcracker (Production)
Flemming Flindt’s The Lesson
Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides, Petrushka
Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring
Marcelo Gomes' Dear Life...*
Matthew Hart’s Cry Baby Kreisler, John Ringling’s Circus Nutcracker*, Tchaikovsky’s Ballet Fantasy†
Johan Kobborg’s Napoli Act III (after Bournonville), Salute
Joe Layton’s The Grand Tour
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto, Elite Syncopations, Las Hermanas, Romeo and Juliet (Dance of the Knights), Summer Pas de Deux
Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’après-midi d’un Faune (The Afternoon of a Faun)
Robert North’s Troy Game
Rudolf Nureyev’s Raymonda Act III
Renato Paroni’s Rococo Variations†
Anna Pavlova’s The Dragonfly Solo
Marius Petipa’s The Black Swan Pas de Deux, Diana and Actaeon Pas de Deux, Don Quixote Pas de Deux, La Bayadere (Bronze Idol, Pas de Trois, Pas de Deux, Coda, and Finale), Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Paquita
Yuri Possokhov’s Firebird
André Prokovsky’s Anna Karenina, Vespri
Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, Fancy Free
Galina Samsova’s Paquita [production]
Paul Taylor’s Airs, Brandenburgs, Company B
Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, Nine Sinatra Songs
Will Tuckett’s Changing Light*, Lux Aeterna*, The Secret Garden*, Spielende Kinder
Antony Tudor’s Continuo, Gala Performance, The Leaves are Fading, Lilac Garden
Vasily Vainonen’s Flames of Paris Pas de Deux
Hans van Manen’s Grosse Fuge
Dominic Walsh’s Bello, Camille Claudel La Valse Pas de Deux, Clair de Lune*, Dying Swan, I Napoletani, Time Out of Line*, The Trilogy: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart*, Wolfgang for Webb*
Christopher Wheeldon’s The American, Prokofiev Pas de Deux, There Where She Loved
Sir Peter Wright’s Giselle (Production), The Mirror Walkers, Summertide†
†American premiere; ⁺first American company to perform ballet; *world premiere
Resident Choreographer
Ricardo Graziano’s Amorosa, Before Night Falls, En las Calles de Murcia, In a State of Weightlessness, Shostakovich Suite, Sonata in Four Movements, Sonatina, Symphony of Sorrows, Valsinhas. Divertissements - The Jolly Overture, Pomp and Circumstance, Somewhere
(all world premieres; In a State of Weightlessness premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, 12 August 2015)
Company Choreography
Ricki Bertoni’s Hip 2 Be Square, Ragtop
George Birkadze’s Farandole
Asia Bui's Song on the Beach
Jamie Carter’s À Deux Mains, Addio ad un Sogno, Concordium, Five Duets (Between Longing and Yearning), Holiday Overture, The Tarot
Meg Egington’s Cezanne’s Doubt
Pavel Fomin’s Hommage à Chopin
Alex Harrison’s The Blue Hour
Kate Honea’s Baroque and Blues, Gitana Galop, Headlines, Percolator
Logan Learned’s Nebulous, Scene de Ballet
Octavio Martin’s On The Outside, Orpheus and Eurydice
Emelia Perkins' Washington Square
David Tlaiye’s Xibalba
Macyn Vogt's Exurgency
Kelly Yankle’s Ne Me Quitte Pas
(all world premieres)
