Works from Within
New Program Debut!
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DateMay 14 - 17, 2025
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VenueRose Wagner Performing Arts Center
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Event Details
Every great ballet begins with a first performance. Experience it for yourself at Works from Within. Featuring world-premiere ballets choreographed by Ballet West Artists for Company Dancers, highlighting their artistry and innovation. Be among the first to experience the elegance, passion, and creativity that define Ballet West
ANDROMEDA
Choreography: Katlyn Addison
Music: Jonathan Sanford
Andromeda is a dramatic new ballet inspired by the Greek myth of royal pride, divine wrath, and enduring love.
Aethiopia celebrates the birth of Princess Andromeda. Years later, her beauty and kindness shine in the city square. However, Queen Cassiopeia’s boast that Andromeda surpasses the gods in beauty incurs the wrath of Poseidon, who demands the princess as a sacrifice.
In the throne room, as the King and Queen despair and the city pleads, Andromeda bravely offers to save her people. Perseus, the Greek hero, arrives as she prepares for her fate, instantly falling in love. Learning of the monstrous Cetus that demands her sacrifice, Perseus confronts and defeats the sea monster using Medusa’s head. Freed, Andromeda, and Perseus find love amidst the danger they have overcome.
LINGERING ECHOES
Choreography: Nicole Fannéy
Music: Nisi Dominus; Erkki Salmenhaara, arranged by Seppo Murto; Johann Sebastian Bach
This work explores the themes of togetherness and loss. It grapples with the bittersweet realities of life, where joy and sorrow intertwine. It is also a reflection of shared memories, the enduring power of love in the face of separation, and the ways in which grief can be a path to understanding and growth.
WITH FEELING
Choreography: Jazz Khai Bynum
Music: Derek Bermel, Duke Ellington
Dancers: Utah Valley University’s Repertory Ballet Ensemble
Jazz Khai Bynum is named after Jazz music, born of African American origin and characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and a forceful rhythm, along enthusiastic and lively talk. The inspiration for this piece comes from the music, playing with the idea of when we are lost in the rhythm. You know when your favorite song comes on and the beat catches your soul and you must turn the sound all the way up? That is where “With Feeling” exists. A place of peace, freedom, and joy.
Performed by Utah Valley University Repertory Ballet Ensemble, students pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet, offered within the Ballet Program housed in the Department of Dance at Utah Valley University. This collaboration was made possible by Ballet West Artistic Director Adam Sklute, Director of Company Management and Touring Misha Eady-Harbold; Utah Valley University School of the Arts Assistant Dean Danielle Shipley, Department of Dance Chair Jamie A. Johnson, and UVU Repertory Ballet Ensemble Director Christa St. John.
ELIS
Choreography: Vinicius Lima
Music: TBD
Elis, explores human emotional states surrounding feelings of love, play, grief and togetherness. What do those look like through Lima's work? How are they being expressed through the dancer’s bodies? Can you feel it from the edge of your seat?
MASS HYSTERICAL
Choreography: Emily Adams
Music: Katy Jarzebowski
A collaboration between choreographer Emily Adams and composer Katy Jarzebowski, Mass Hysterical explores the comedy and horror of group social behaviors and the challenge of being brave when fear and distrust abound.
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SHOW INFO
To Be Announced.
RECOMMENDED AGES
Recommended ages 8 and up.
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
To be announced.
CASTING
ANDROMEDA
Cast A: 5/14, 5/16, 5/17 EVE
Andromeda: Jenna Rae Herrera
Perseus: Jordan Veit
Poseidon: Loren Walton
King Cepheus: Hadriel Diniz
Queen Cassiopeia: Nicole Fannéy
Cetus the Monster: Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, James Jobson-Larkin
Ladies in Waiting: Alexis Bull, Jazz Khai Bynum, Kye Cooley, Isabella Corridon, Claire Spainhour, Tatiana Stevenson
Kings Guards: Dominic Ballard, Kai Casperson, Jacob Hancock, Joseph Lynch, William Lynch, Jonas Malinka-Thompson
Cast B: 5/15 5/17 MAT
Andromeda: Lexi McCloud
Perseus: David Huffmire
Poseidon: Vinicius Lima
King Cepheus: Tyler Gum
Queen Cassiopeia: Kye Cooley
Cetus the Monster: Anderson Duhan, Robert Fowler, James Jobson-Larkin
Ladies in Waiting: Alexis Bull, Jazz Khai Bynum, Kye Cooley, Isabella Corridon, Mikayla Gyfteas, Claire Spainhour, Tatiana Stevenson
Kings Guards: Dominic Ballard, Kai Casperson, Joseph Lynch, Jacob Hancock, William Lynch, Jonas Malinka-Thompson
LINGERING ECHOES
Cast A: 5/14, 5/16, 5/17 EVE
Lillian Casscells, Adrian Fry, Rylee Ann Rogers, Loren Walton, Kristina Pool, Jordan Veit, Mikayla Gyfteas, Dominic Ballard
Cast B: 5/15 5/17 MAT
Victoria Vassos, Joseph Lynch, Rylee Ann Rogers, Loren Walton, Kristina Pool, Jordan Veit, Mikayla Gyfteas, Dominic Ballard
WITH FEELING
5/14, 5/15, 5/16, 5/17 MAT & EVE
Performed by Utah Valley University’s Repertory Ballet Ensemble: Laura Bermann, Chloe Bremser, Ashlyn Duckwitz/Brooklyn Johansen, Bailey McMillan, Raquel Miller, Andy Sefcik, Laurie Belén Wilson
ELIS
5/14, 5/15, 5/16, 5/17 MAT & EVE
Katlyn Addison, Alexis Bull, Jazz Khai Bynum, Kye Cooley, Taylor Fikes, Mikayla Gyfteas, Jenna Rae Herrera, Schuyler Lian, Lexi McCloud, Kristina Pool, Anisa Sinteral, Claire Spainhour, Victoria Vassos, Kai Casperson, Hadriel Diniz, Anderson Duhan, Jacob Hancock, James Jobson-Larkin, William Lynch, Jonas Malinka-Thompson
MASS HYSTERICAL
5/14, 5/15, 5/16, 5/17 MAT & EVE
Jazz Khai Bynum/Tatiana Stevenson, Lillian Casscells, Taylor Fikes, Kristina Pool, Rylee Ann Rogers, Anisa Sinteral, Claire Spainhour, Tatiana Stevenson, Victoria Vassos Dominic Ballard, Kai Casperson, Hadriel Diniz, Tyler Gum, Jacob Hancock, David Huffmire, Joseph Lynch, Jonas Malinka-Thompson, Loren Walton
BALLET WEST HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY
Although masks are not required while attending Ballet West performances for the 2024-2025 season, we encourage patrons who wish to wear a mask to do so. If you are feeling unwell, experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or have had close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, we ask that you follow CDC quarantine and isolations guidelines and prioritize your health and the health of your fellow audience members and stay home. Ballet West reserves the right to change or amend the health policy for performances in the future.