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Sep 11, 2026
Felicity StiversonGUEST
And so I think that choreography and having a background in that is a really useful and vital skill in creating dynamic and exciting works of opera.
Hallie GeyhHOST
How is movement and dance related to Hansel and Gretel? And I would love to hear a little bit more about how you're incorporating the Sarasota Ballet along with your characters who are opera singers.
Felicity StiversonGUEST
Yeah, we're doing such a cool collaboration with the ballet.
Felicity StiversonGUEST
I'm using those dancers in a few really cool ways in this opera.
Chris ShawHOST
So you think it's the flower power era.
Chris ShawHOST
So you've got the latest from Iowa's Lord Kitchener's Ballet.
Chris ShawHOST
Lord
David HepworthGUEST
Kitchener's Ballet, yes.
David HepworthGUEST
It's military stuff, isn't it?
Chris ShawHOST
Yeah, wasn't it old stuff from the war? Some
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It was the crown jewel of Russian culture.
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And Diaghilev's Ballet Russes was revolutionizing art across all of Europe.
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Yet, for a young woman of Zoya's rank, becoming a professional dancer was completely unthinkable.
Miranda SawyerHOST
If you think about the beginning and the end, it completely changed.
Miranda SawyerHOST
But when it started, you were in a bit of a tricky position because you were, essentially, you were a ballet dancer and you had joined the Royal Ballet School when you were 16, is that right? Yeah, just 17.
Miranda SawyerHOST
And you were just about to leave, basically.
Miranda SawyerHOST
You were kicked out because they were very strict and you didn't like them.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
That was the case for this ballet called Age of Gold.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
The work was initially censored due to its inclusion of European dance styles, despite following the plot of a Soviet football or soccer team playing in a Western city and eventually working together with the Western workers to overthrow their capitalist overlords.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
This is a ballet suite from Age of Gold, performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christopher Lyndon Gee.
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Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Ballet Suite from Age of Gold.
JoeyHOST
Well, I think you know what he means.
Precious AdamsGUEST
Non-ballet, non-ballet.
CamHOST
Non-ballet.
Precious AdamsGUEST
Yeah.
CamHOST
Non-ballet.
Precious AdamsGUEST
I never, I've never dated a, like, a dancer before.
CamHOST
I was gonna ask you that.
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In ballet, the reverence is a sequence of bows extending gratitude and respect to the audience for sharing in the artistry and storytelling the dancers present on stage.
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Yavapai Ballet Theatre has taken the word for the name of its first gala, and put it at the beginning.
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Sunday, August 23 at 4 p.m. at the Elks Theatre, 117 East Gurley Street in downtown Prescott, YBT makes its public debut alongside three Arizona Philharmonic musicians playing at floor level a few feet from the dancers.
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The Afternoon marks the public start of a partnership that runs through YBT's 2026-27 season, with live accompaniment planned across its productions.
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YBT launched in January 2026 as a non-profit performance and education organization rather than a studio.
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Founder and artistic director Emily Sosangelis-Tilecoat trained at the Rock School of Philadelphia and the Yale Ballet Company, and she works as a freelance dancer and local ballet instructor.
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She has built the company on a partnership model in which dancers keep training at their home studios and come together for YBT productions.