Snow White 2009
History
A ballet libretto for the well-known story of Snow White was written by Witold Borkowski and Stanislav Piotrowski following the Grimm's fairy tale. Bogdan Pawlowski composed a delightful musical score for the ballet which had its premiere performance at the Janacek Theatre in Czech Republic on May 30, 1973 with the choreography by Witold Borkowski. The ballet continues to be performed in Eastern Europe but remains relatively unknown to U.S. audiences.
Conejo Civic Ballet Company introduced the Southern California community to this charming ballet with choreography adapted from that of Witold Borkowski by Eva Pokorny, Artist Director of CCBC, and Brett Weidlich, CCBC choreographer. Snow White was performed in recital at Moorpark College Auditorium on May 29 and 30 of 1999. The first full performance was at the Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on January 21, 2000 with a repeat performance on January 22, 2000. Snow White is now established in the repertoire of the CCBC and has been performed many times.
Conejo Civic Ballet Company's Snow White 2009 production was performed Friday, May 22, 2009 at 7:00pm and Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 2:30pm in the Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Contributions
Many people contributed to make this performance special. Brett Weidlich, our gifted choreographer, is always revising the choreography for our current dancers. A special thanks to Ballet Arts instructors who participated in these performance, Linda Lewis, Linda Poff and Melisa Sutherland as Court Ladies and Helena Pokorny as the Evil Queen. A special thanks to Ann and Harry Mathias who teamed up again to produce the stunning Mirror that the evil witch/Queen falls into in the last act. Thanks also to the many volunteers that made transport of the props and sets if not easy, quick. Lastly, thanks goes to Robin Twarowski, Executive Director of CCBC, who garnered resources and had a hand in every aspect of the production.
A list of the program credits is extensive and highlights the number of people that worked on props, costumes, staging and rehearsals, so essential to creating a performance that comes alive. A full list of credits can be found on the electronic copy of the Program for the show.
We have tried to capture some measure of the excitement of this performance in the photo galleries accessed in the right hand column. The Performance photos were taken for CCBC by Harry Mathias and it was hard to narrow the couple thousand photos to a manageable number.
Video Clips
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