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This is for concerts which happened in 2001.
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Dudley Brooks's 2001: A Space Oddity
will be featured on Peninsula Ballet Theater's
Spectrum 2001
Sunday, February 17

Upchairs Downchairs and The Soldier's Tale
will be featured on Peninsula Ballet Theater's
Faustian Fantasies
Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1

 



 

SPECTRUM 2001!
presented by Peninsula Ballet Theater

 

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The world premiere (this world or any other) of Dudley Brooks's

2001: A Space Oddity
(Un voyage á la lunacie)
"One step for a small man, one grand jeté for mankind."
Featuring astronut George "Stumpy" Spelvin.
 

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street, Mountain View
Sunday, February 16 at 2pm and 8pm

Adults $20     Students/Seniors $16     Children $12
650-340-9448 for tickets and information

 


Peninsula Ballet Theater
Carlos Carvajal, Artistic Director
presents
Spectrum 2001
An eclectic array of dance entertainment for the whole family

The program features Carlos Carvajal's
 
Milongeros
A tango ballet set in a Buenos Aires bistro,
danced to the music of Astor Piazzola.

Entre Deux Mondes
The three stages of romantic love,
set to the music of Maurice Ravel

Footsteps -- Shakti (premiere)
See the moon, how she dances with her beams!
Slowly, reflectively, ethereally . . . a gossamer dream.. 

And a special treat, the exotic belly dance of guest artist
Calliope

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FAUSTIAN FANTASIES
presented by Peninsula Ballet Theater

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Dudley Brooks and Matthew Child in 'Upchairs Downchairs' -- photo by Steve Savage

Upchairs Downchairs by Dudley Brooks
World premiere of the PBT version
A homage to Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
set to the music of Jacques Ibert's Divertissement

(More pictures of the original duet version of Upchairs Downchairs)

The Soldier's Tale by Dudley Brooks
Boy meets girl, boy meets Devil, boy loses girl, boy loses soul.
A Roaring '20s silent movie-style version
of Stravinsky's musical masterpiece
 


(More information about The Soldier's Tale).

Matthew Child, Marsha Wales Brown, and Dudley Brooks in 'The Soldier's Tale' -- Photo by Rob Lee

 

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street, Mountain View
Saturday, March 31 at 8pm
Sunday, April 1 at 2pm

Adults $20     Students/Seniors $16     Children $12
650-340-9448 for tickets and information

 


Peninsula Ballet Theater
Carlos Carvajal, Artistic Director
presents
Faustian Fantasies

The program features Carlos Carvajal's
 
Faustian Dances (premiere)
Inspired by the styles of both the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi,
this tale portrays Faust as he is tempted by Mefistofeles.

Anima
The female essence, found within each artist
-- the Muse, through which creative energy is manifest.
It is the eternal seeking for balance that drives creation.

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