Stanton Welch's 20th Season To Be Celebrated At Jubilee Of Dance

Stanton Welch’s 20th Season to be Celebrated at Jubilee of Dance

In just a few days, the one-night only performance of Jubilee of Dance will celebrate Stanton Welch’s 20th season as Artistic Director of Houston Ballet.

Audiences at Wortham Theater Center will not only see several of the longtime leader’s most popular works, but three premieres by current company dancers Jacquelyn Long (Soloist), Jack Wolf (Demi-Soloist), and Jindallae Bernard (Corps de Ballet dancer).

"The Jubilee of Dance is a celebration of all things Houston Ballet and of my 20th anniversary as Artistic Director. The program is made of a selection of works I have created on the Company over the past two decades, curated by Director of the Academy Jennifer Sommers and General Manager Kelli Gilson. This performance is also a celebration of the new. Three company and school alums create their first works on Houston Ballet, while I also get to create a new work to the extraordinary music of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 played by Principal Pianist Katherine Ciscon. It’s a celebration of classical dance and its bright future."

Stanton Welch

Artistic Director of Houston Ballet

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Fittingly, for this year’s event, Houston Ballet’s dancers will be performing roles from some of Welch’s most appreciate ballets including excerpts from his Sylvia, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Marie, La Bayadere, Giselle, Restoration, and In Good Company.

A one-act world premiere by the director will also close the evening and is set to one of the most popular concertos ever written.

Along with Welch’s works, Bernard’s Parodie de l’histoire du ballet set to Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Long’s Illuminate with music by Oliver Davis’s Frontiers, and Wolff’s Category Four danced to Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet’s Landfall will see their debuts.

Since 2017, Margaret Alkek Williams has endowed the annual Jubilee of Dance (which began in 2004) to ensure that the showcase of Houston Ballet’s best artists in some of the company’s best repertory would have a future. ensuring its place in the nonprofit’s future.

Featured Photo for Stanton Welch’s 20th Season of the Artistic Director on stage in 2021. Photo by Lawrence Elizabeth Knox. Courtesy of Houston Ballet.