DO IT FOR LOVE
FEBRUARY 10 at 7:30pm 
FEBRUARY 11 at 7:30pm
FEBRUARY 12 at 3:30pm
KIRKWOOD PAC
 

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• Allegro Brillante by Balanchine with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• By Any Other Name by Amy Seiwert with music by J.S. Bach

• Moment by Gen Horiuchi with original music by Toya
   

Runtime:  1 hour 26 min plus a 20 min intermission
 

Just in time for Valentine’s Day – a weekend of performances that demonstrate LOVE and the powerful combination of music and movement. Saint Louis Ballet is pleased to perform its annual February repertory program at the beautiful new Kirkwood Performing Arts Center.

Artistic Director Gen Horiuchi had a special relationship with New York City Ballet’s renowned George Balanchine, considered by dance scholars to be the “father of American ballet”. Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, which he called “everything I know about classical ballet in 13 minutes” is set to Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3, and exhibits an expansive Russian romanticism. The ballet was first performed in 1956 by New York City Ballet.

Do It For Love also features the work of San Francisco’s Amy Seiwert, one of today’s most creative and sought-after contemporary ballet choreographers. Seiwert, whose career includes performances with several west coast ballet companies, is highly regarded for her willingness to take risks to innovate classical ballet choreography. The San Francisco Bay Guardian said Seiwert "...is quite possibly the Bay Area’s most original dance thinker, taking what some consider a dead language and using it as a 21st-century lingo to tell us something about who we are.” Her By Any Other Name, set to music by J.S. Bach, premiered in San Francisco in July, 2022.

Finally, Gen Horiuchi is set to present a new work, choreographed to original music by TOYA. This is Horiuchi’s
third collaboration with the talented keyboardist, composer, musical director, and producer who has worked with some of the top recording artists in the country.

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