Sat April 6, 2019
Oakland Ballet Company Presents Jazz Vistas: Spring Repertory Program
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Friday, April 5 at 8pm and Saturday, April 6 at 3pm and 8pm
Oakland Ballet Company presents Jazz Vistas, a concert of intimate ballet featuring new and recent works by Bay Area choreographers and live music celebrating Oakland's rich cultural heritage as a center of jazz and blues. A new work, The Oaktown Blues, will feature choreography by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig; Ballet Master, Bat Abbit; company dancers, Vincent Chavez and Ramona Kelley; as well as local choreographers Natalya Shoaf and Dazaun Soleyn. The music, inspired by West Oakland's history as an African American cultural mecca and incubator of jazz and blues following World War II, will be performed live by a combo musicians from the Oaktown Jazz Workshop, directed by Ravi Abcarian, with special guest, acclaimed Oakland-based vocalist, Tiffany Austin.
Lustig also remounts his work, VISTA, which had its Bay Area premiere in 2011 in his first season with the company, and is set to the swanky, charmingly quirky music of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards. Performances are Friday April 5 at 8pm and Saturday April 6 at 3pm and 8pm in the Florence Schwimley Little Theater, Berkeley High School.
The musicians of Oaktown Jazz Workshop participating in the performance include bassist Ravi Abcarian and and rising star vocalist/alto saxophonist Ashanti Johnson, with others to be announced. Musical selections will include West Coast blues, swing and boogie woogie classics made famous by Sugar Pie Desanto, Ivory Joe Hunter, Saunders King, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James and Lowell Fulson. Lustig has tasked the choreographers creating different sections of The Oaktown Blues with mining these classic tunes for contemporary meaning, mirroring the way a jazz musician imbues decades-old standard repertoire with fresh energy and relevance with each new performance.
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Oakland Ballet Company presents Jazz Vistas, a concert of intimate ballet featuring new and recent works by Bay Area choreographers and live music celebrating Oakland's rich cultural heritage as a center of jazz and blues. A new work, The Oaktown Blues, will feature choreography by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig; Ballet Master, Bat Abbit; company dancers, Vincent Chavez and Ramona Kelley; as well as local choreographers Natalya Shoaf and Dazaun Soleyn. The music, inspired by West Oakland's history as an African American cultural mecca and incubator of jazz and blues following World War II, will be performed live by a combo musicians from the Oaktown Jazz Workshop, directed by Ravi Abcarian, with special guest, acclaimed Oakland-based vocalist, Tiffany Austin.
Lustig also remounts his work, VISTA, which had its Bay Area premiere in 2011 in his first season with the company, and is set to the swanky, charmingly quirky music of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards. Performances are Friday April 5 at 8pm and Saturday April 6 at 3pm and 8pm in the Florence Schwimley Little Theater, Berkeley High School.
The musicians of Oaktown Jazz Workshop participating in the performance include bassist Ravi Abcarian and and rising star vocalist/alto saxophonist Ashanti Johnson, with others to be announced. Musical selections will include West Coast blues, swing and boogie woogie classics made famous by Sugar Pie Desanto, Ivory Joe Hunter, Saunders King, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James and Lowell Fulson. Lustig has tasked the choreographers creating different sections of The Oaktown Blues with mining these classic tunes for contemporary meaning, mirroring the way a jazz musician imbues decades-old standard repertoire with fresh energy and relevance with each new performance.
Friday, April 5 at 8pm and Saturday, April 6 at 3pm and 8pm
Oakland Ballet Company presents Jazz Vistas, a concert of intimate ballet featuring new and recent works by Bay Area choreographers and live music celebrating Oakland's rich cultural heritage as a center of jazz and blues. A new work, The Oaktown Blues, will feature choreography by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig; Ballet Master, Bat Abbit; company dancers, Vincent Chavez and Ramona Kelley; as well as local choreographers Natalya Shoaf and Dazaun Soleyn. The music, inspired by West Oakland's history as an African American cultural mecca and incubator of jazz and blues following World War II, will be performed live by a combo musicians from the Oaktown Jazz Workshop, directed by Ravi Abcarian, with special guest, acclaimed Oakland-based vocalist, Tiffany Austin.
Lustig also remounts his work, VISTA, which had its Bay Area premiere in 2011 in his first season with the company, and is set to the swanky, charmingly quirky music of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards. Performances are Friday April 5 at 8pm and Saturday April 6 at 3pm and 8pm in the Florence Schwimley Little Theater, Berkeley High School.
The musicians of Oaktown Jazz Workshop participating in the performance include bassist Ravi Abcarian and and rising star vocalist/alto saxophonist Ashanti Johnson, with others to be announced. Musical selections will include West Coast blues, swing and boogie woogie classics made famous by Sugar Pie Desanto, Ivory Joe Hunter, Saunders King, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James and Lowell Fulson. Lustig has tasked the choreographers creating different sections of The Oaktown Blues with mining these classic tunes for contemporary meaning, mirroring the way a jazz musician imbues decades-old standard repertoire with fresh energy and relevance with each new performance.
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Oakland Ballet Company presents Jazz Vistas, a concert of intimate ballet featuring new and recent works by Bay Area choreographers and live music celebrating Oakland's rich cultural heritage as a center of jazz and blues. A new work, The Oaktown Blues, will feature choreography by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig; Ballet Master, Bat Abbit; company dancers, Vincent Chavez and Ramona Kelley; as well as local choreographers Natalya Shoaf and Dazaun Soleyn. The music, inspired by West Oakland's history as an African American cultural mecca and incubator of jazz and blues following World War II, will be performed live by a combo musicians from the Oaktown Jazz Workshop, directed by Ravi Abcarian, with special guest, acclaimed Oakland-based vocalist, Tiffany Austin.
Lustig also remounts his work, VISTA, which had its Bay Area premiere in 2011 in his first season with the company, and is set to the swanky, charmingly quirky music of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards. Performances are Friday April 5 at 8pm and Saturday April 6 at 3pm and 8pm in the Florence Schwimley Little Theater, Berkeley High School.
The musicians of Oaktown Jazz Workshop participating in the performance include bassist Ravi Abcarian and and rising star vocalist/alto saxophonist Ashanti Johnson, with others to be announced. Musical selections will include West Coast blues, swing and boogie woogie classics made famous by Sugar Pie Desanto, Ivory Joe Hunter, Saunders King, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James and Lowell Fulson. Lustig has tasked the choreographers creating different sections of The Oaktown Blues with mining these classic tunes for contemporary meaning, mirroring the way a jazz musician imbues decades-old standard repertoire with fresh energy and relevance with each new performance.
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