Friends of the Sarasota Ballet hosted its first event of the year on Oct. 16 at FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
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Niki Kottmann
| 9:27 p.m. October 16, 2017
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Friends of the Sarasota Ballet members were in for a surprise Oct. 16 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts when Director Iain Webb introduced the season’s dancers.
He added a third name to the list of junior principals.
Lucas Erni, who was previously at the National Ballet of Uruguay, was promoted from his previous position as first soloist after only three weeks at the Sarasota Ballet.
“It’s a great start for me,” he said. “Iain is doing everything to keep pushing us, so I’ll do that too and try to keep up the level that he has set the company at.”
The occasion was Meet Me at the Barre, the first Friends event of the year and the first to get all the dancers and ballet employees introduced. After a brief program of introductions, Webb invited everyone to adjourn to the mezzanine where supporters, dancers and ballet staffers mixed and mingled over dinner and drinks.
Jonathan Coleman, Sarasota Ballet Board Chairwoman Hillary Steele and Richard Wires
Dancer Katelyn May and Sarasota Ballet Director Iain Webb
Sydell Rosen and Carol Hallinger
Marcia Rutbeig and Peggy Sweeney
Pat Golemme and Carol Hirschburg
Dancers introduce themselves during the program portion of Meet Me at the Barre on Oct. 16 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
Dancers and employees clap to thanks the Friends of the Sarasota Ballet at Meet Me at the Barre on Oct. 16 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
Kate Honea explains how this will be her “sweet sixteen” season.
Hillary Steele and the dancers listen to Executive Director Joe Volpe at Meet Me at the Barre on Oct. 16 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
Director Iain Webb surprises dancer Lucas Erni by telling him he’s been promoted to junior principal.
Sandy Miranda and Barbara Epperson
Dancers Wilson Livingston and Taiguara Goulart
Peter Miller, dancer Ellen Overstreet and Martha Harrison
Dancer Patrick Ward and Marilyn Nordby
Dancer Ryoko Sadoshima, Lauren Walsh and dancer Rick Bertoni
Dancers Kelly Williams and Indiana Cote
Will Tuckett and Bob Griffiths
Dancer Clayton McKenna, Pavel Fomin and dancer Erik Thordal
