Best known now as the composer for the hit Netflix series “House of Cards,” Beal grew up in a musical East Bay family. As a young trumpeter interested in both jazz and classical music, he credits Castro Valley High and the Oakland Youth Symphony Orchestra for providing his strong musical foundation. Long championed by Kent Nagano, he premiered his first work for the OYSO as a teenager and years later, premiered his extended work for trumpet and orchestra with the Berkeley Symphony, led by Nagano.

The music for “Rose” is the adagio section from Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, because as Lopez Ochoa says, “This is the most romantic music I know.”, “I’m not a romantic woman at all, but this is a romantic ballet, This music encapsulates so much of the four dance sections, An adagio is usually four minutes long and this movement is 14, and even has an allegro part, a resurrection.”, The much-in-demand Lopez Ochoa has since ventured to Oklahoma for the premiere of her latest ballet, “Shibuya pink ballarina, ballet shoes, ribbon paper clips, bookmarks Blues” for the Tulsa Ballet, But she will be back this week when Smuin debuts its “Dance Series 01,” featuring “Requiem for a Rose,” in Walnut Creek on Sept, 22, Then she will be in residence at San Francisco Ballet for three weeks creating a new ballet for Unbound, a festival of new work by 12 choreographers, which will open in May, She says she hasn’t started her work yet, but already knows the dancers won’t be in pointe shoes and she is using electronic music..

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“Shark” examines questions about limitations through a series of six movements, each based on a poem by Leto set to different poetic styles, Pearlman says she rigorously adheres to each poem’s form “to almost disable my dancers to come up with something new.” It’s a collaborative process with the dancers and with the other artists, so she and Jeanrenaud responded to each other’s work as the piece was in process, Cadenza’s Barsacq provided the project’s animating vision, facilitating the collaboration between Jeanrenaud, Pearlman and Leto, In dealing with laryngeal dystonia, a condition that can make speaking difficult, Leto has found different ways of writing the challenge into her poetics, And as an art form that ruthlessly subjects its practitioners to the vicissitudes of aging, pink ballarina, ballet shoes, ribbon paper clips, bookmarks dance provides a ripe target for examining its own conventions, She’s hardly the first choreographer to delve into this territory, but she brings a particular set of questions to the stage, particularly related to gender, that make her perspective a welcome addition to a needed dialogue..

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