SFB'S STOWELL LEAVES DANCE FOR SONG.At the ripe old age of 35, Christopher Stowell, one of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Ballet's most respected principal dancers, retired this season after sixteen years with the company. "Stoly" (as everyone in the troupe called him) danced his last home season performance at the War Memorial Opera House April 20, 2001, when he added George Balanchine's Tarantella tarantella (târ`əntĕl`ə), Neapolitan folk dance that first appeared in Taranto, Italy, in the 17th cent. It had rapid 6–8 meter with an increasing tempo and was thought to cure the bite of the tarantula, which supposedly and a solo from artistic director Helgi Tomasson's Meistens Mozart to the roles he was scheduled to perform. The troupe's May visit to the Paris Opera's Palais Garnier marked Stowell's farewell.The dancer will not radically shift professions. This summer, he is creating new choreography for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis's Tale of Genji prior to a Japanese tour. Stowell will then mount a piece for the Pennsylvania Ballet in September and premiere a work for the Diablo Ballet in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the , next March. He is also considering a collaboration with his father, Kent Stowell, who, with his mother, Francia Russell, directs Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. . At the moment, Stowell is most intrigued with opera, however. This summer, he'll study opera direction in Minneapolis with famed director and teacher Wesley Balk balk the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. and hopes to work extensively in the field. Stowell, who was a student at the School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet is located in New York City, in Lincoln Center. It is considered one of the most prestigious and notable ballet schools in the United States and teaches some of the most talented young dancers in the country. , recalls attending operas in Germany with his parents at the age of 7 and falling hopelessly in love with the medium. Thoughts of running a ballet company, as with so many other ex-dancers, have passed through his mind, but for the moment, Stowell says he needs "a bit of perspective on the field. I need to get away from ballet studios for a while." |
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