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President’s Message Board of Directors Nathaniel Wright President Kathleen Burrell Immediate Past-President Somer Jaynes Vice President John Salter Treasurer Diana St. Clair Secretary Haley Brooks Stephen Faulk Ryan Henry Shyrle Hill Robert Kollman Wyatt Leavell Helen Liggett Debbie Littlejohn Kelli Medina Shannon Miller Margaret Randle Kirsten Robinson Holly Russell Scott Sharp Sarah Skelton Lauren Sullivan Staff Nicholas Dragga Executive Director Yvonne Racz Key Artistic Director Janie Bush Production Manager Erin Grigson Development & Marketing Manager

Dear Ballet Lubbock Family and Friends At long last, I am thrilled to welcome you to our first performance at the beautiful Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences. You can FEEL the energy and excitement throughout our studios and facility. Our company dancers have been preparing all year as they steadfastly work on their technique in class every week. This weekend you will have the chance to observe the progression of our company dancers through an interactive ballet class followed by original performances. This stopand-start rehearsal gives you a rare chance to see inner workings of setting a ballet for the stage. Together, with our incredible teachers, staff, and students we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on! As we continue navigating the challenges this pandemic has presented over the past year, we remain steadfast in our commitment to you to provide a place of premier dance training, performances, and outreach. Our Spring Performance will help us raise the funds we need to continue meeting this moment for our students, and to start building for the future that awaits us when this pandemic has ended. None of our plans, progress, or performances would be possible without the tremendous support of our sponsors and community partners. We thank you sincerely for your continued involvement and for championing our mission through donations, volunteerism, and applause. Your kindness and generosity are making an impact. We continue to grow and serve more each year thanks to your contributions and support. In this era of striking uncertainty, we are stronger than ever with your support. Thank you for supporting Ballet Lubbock and arts in the South Plains for fifty years. Thank you for helping us make this weekend a fun and memorable event for our company dancers. Most of all, thank you for igniting a love of dance and a passion for the arts - the best is truly yet to be. Dr. Nathaniel S. Wright Board President Ballet Lubbock

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Suzanne Aker, Founder Suzanne Aker, Ballet Lubbock’s Founder, served as its first Artistic Director and Choreographer. Ms. Aker holds a B.A. Degree in Art and English from Tulsa University and has taught professionally for over 50 years. She holds Teacher Certification from the Royal Academy of Dance, England, and was instrumental in the earliest days of the Department of Dance at Texas Tech University. Ms. Aker has been honored in many areas, including being named one of the Notable Women of Texas, the Chamber of Commerce Pathfinder Award, Who’s Who of America, Who’s Who of American Women, the National Dance Plaudit Award from National Dance Association, and was the ninth person inducted into the Buddy Holly Hall of Fame. In 1998, Ms. Aker was honored as the first recipient of the Founders Award for Outstanding Service to Youth. Texas Tech University has presented Ms. Aker with its Certificate for Outstanding Choreography four times. Choreography credits include Texas Tech Symphony, Lubbock Symphony, Texas Tech Theatre, Lubbock High School, and the Garza Theatre, Post. In addition to her dance accomplishments, Ms. Aker has contributed articles to Dance Magazine, national and state physical education journals, authored a children’s book, What Comes in Two’s, Three’s and Four’s, and illustrated several children’s books. One of only a few icon artists in the Southwest, Ms. Aker’s icons hang in churches in the United States and abroad. Ms. Aker retired formally as an instructor and Director of Community Outreach Programs for Ballet Lubbock in May 2000. Ms. Aker continues her artwork and yoga, and maintains an active role in support of Ballet Lubbock programs and performances.

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Yvonne Racz Key, Artistic Director YVONNE RACZ KEY was named Artistic Director of Ballet Lubbock in 1997. Under her artistic direction, Yvonne Racz Key has established Ballet Lubbock as a nationally recognized pre-professional ballet school with a regional performing company and a developed active Community Outreach Program. She has expanded Ballet Lubbock with classical and contemporary productions; increased public exposure and a greater focus on the effects an established ballet school can make on the artistic culture in a community. During her tenure her students have been accepted with scholarships to internationally top-ranked summer programs all over the country and include an alum of professional dancers performing and teaching internationally. She has been recognized in publications such as VOGUE, TIME, Southern Living and Dance Magazine. Yvonne is also a guest teacher for dance workshops and has taught internationally including NOW Dance, Mexico, and Budapest Dance Theatre. She has given a TEDx talk on ballet education and has been recognized as a leader in the community with awards from Lubbock Arts Alliance, YWCA’s Woman of Excellence in Culture and the Louise Hopkins Underwood Arts Center. Ms. Racz received her BA in Humanities from the University of Utah and went on to pursue a professional dance career. She performed with dance companies including Maryland Ballet Company, Catanach Ballet Theatre, Desrosiers Dance Theatre, Ballet Hispanico, and Cirque Du Soleil. She has taught as adjunct faculty at Texas Tech University and is presently pursuing her MFA in Performance and Pedagogy at Texas Tech and presented at Theatre conferences such as ATHE, TETA and TTU Vernacular Music and Arts and Humanities and recently received her MFA in Performance and Pedagogy from Texas Tech University.

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Nicholas Dragga, Executive Director NICHOLAS DRAGGA has served as the Executive Director of Ballet Lubbock since 2011 where he focuses on program design, development, and the branding of the organization. Under Nicholas’s leadership, Ballet Lubbock’s budget has more than tripled, student enrollement doubled, and outreach endeavors tripled in size and scope. Mr. Dragga spearheaded several collaborations with the Ballet and other prominent Lubbock arts organizations including the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center For The Arts, the Charles Adams Studio Project, and the Texas Tech University School of Music. Current efforts at Ballet Lubbock include implementing the recently completed five-year strategic plan that calls for expanding the staff structure and a relocation of the Ballet Lubbock facility to Lubbock’s Downtown Cultural Arts District. Prior to his work with Ballet Lubbock, Mr. Dragga served as the Marketing Director for the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dragga holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Music Performance and Composition from Texas Tech University, and a Master’s of Science Degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University where he was awarded the Arts Administration Award for Academic Excellence. Nicholas’s graduate research was focused on the successes - or not - of alternative ticket subscription models used by symphony orchestras and has received attention from think tanks and group one orchestras from across the country. Nicholas regularly blogs for the Americans for the Arts Artsblog, and is a member of the Emerging Leaders Council, a nationally elected working advisory body to Americans for the Arts that assists in developing programs and resources to promote professional development and networking opportunities for emerging arts professionals nationwide. Mr. Dragga has served as a grant evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and is a Texans for the Arts Certified State Arts Advocate and Texans for the Arts Board Member. Locally, Nicholas is a member of the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center For The Art’s LHUCA League and member of Rising Arts Leaders of Lubbock. In 2014 he was named to the Top 20 Under 40 Award from the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce.

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Production Crew ARTISTIC DIRECTOR...........................................................................Yvonne Racz Key PRODUCTION MANAGER.............................................................................Janie Bush COSTUME DESIGNER.............................................................................Leticia Delgado PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/ADMINISTRATION.............................Emme Schooler LIGHTING DESIGNER.............................................................................Dr. James Bush CHOREOGRAPHERS..............................................................Lara Davis, Emily Lowke, Katelyn Lowke, Yvonne Racz Key PIANIST..........................................................................................................Becca Zeisler JANIE BUSH has been a part of the Ballet Lubbock family since 2001, serving as room mother while her daughter Emily danced at Ballet Lubbock. Since then she has been a guild member, seamstress, assistant costume mistress, assistant stage manager and before joining the staff as Ballet Lubbock’s production manager. Ms. Bush holds a B.S. in Education and a Masters Degree in Organizational Transformation. She has worked in nonprofit organizations throughout her career, specializing in children’s programming, administration, production, events, and education. Her love for theatre has led to her serve as writer, producer, director, costume mistress, and production stage manager for various theatrical productions. While in Lubbock, Janie has been a part of production teams with Lubbock Community Theatre, TTU School of Theatre and Dance, LHUCA, Lubbock Moonlight Musicals, and Ballet Lubbock. Ms. Bush has readily answered the requests of organizations such as Voice of Hope (Lubbock Rape Crisis Center), Women’s Protective Services of Lubbock, Hospice of Lubbock, and others to produce programming and performance pieces for survivors of trauma. She has co-authored two Texas Commission on the Arts grants and received funding to provide therapy and awareness through the arts community of Lubbock. Janie has also served on a TCA panel to evaluate grant requests. In 2016 Janie Bush was named the YWCA’s Woman of Excellence in Arts and Culture. Janie’s duties at Ballet Lubbock include the supervision of all production elements for public performance. She owes the success of these productions to the production staff of Ballet Lubbock and the amazing individuals who make up the Parent Volunteer Network. Her favorite moment of a production is when the curtain opens, and the magic begins LETTY DELGADO is an MFA costume designer, author and educator. She has been Ballet Lubbock’s Costume Designer & Production Assistant since the summer of 2016. Leticia balances her duties at Ballet Lubbock with an academic career. Ms. Delgado has taught and designed in both higher education and the professional arena for over fifteen years. She is co-author of The Art and Practice of Costume Design (Routledge, 2017). She currently teaches at Lubbock Christian University, and has previously held professorships with Miami University, Ball State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Leticia’s costumes have appeared at various local venues and on stages across the country, from the Illinois Shakespeare Festival to the Santa Barbara Theatre Group, and have toured internationally to China and Ireland with the Santa Barbara Dance Theatre (Artistic Director Jerry Pearson).

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Production Crew Some of Ms. Delgado’s costume design work is included in The Director’s Vision: Play Direction from Analysis to Production (Waveland Press, 2015). Leticia has served on numerous art education and social justice panels, most recently participating in The 5thAnnual Statewide Summit on Mexican American Studies For Texas Schools and the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s Forum on Race and Representation in Theatre Design & Technology. Ms. Delgado is an active member of the Latinx, Indigenous and the Americas Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) and the Texas Tech University Chicana/x Latina/x Working Group. Leticia was selected to be a member of the artEquity inaugural BIPOC Leadership Circle cohort in 2020. She continues to work with artEquity, serving as a BIPOC Leadership Circle Working Group member, helping them plan the next cohort’s learning experience and launching an inaugural book of poetry. DR. JAMES BUSH is a freelance producer, director, stage manager, videographer, and designer. Dr. Bush received the 2010 Bill Kerns Award for the Performing Arts. Before retirement, he was on the School of Theatre and Dance’s Graduate Acting/ Directing Faculty at Texas Tech University, serving as both the MA and PhD programs. He worked professionally at the Old Globe Theatre, the Bowery Theatre, Mission Playhouse, The American Southwest Theatre Company, and Lubbock Moonlight Musicals. Jim is a member of IATSE Local 865, and is a past president of both the Bowery Theatre in San Diego and the Lubbock Community Theatre, and has served as the Technical Advisor for Ballet Lubbock and on the Advisory Board for LHUCA. He is also a frequent UIL and KCACTF respondent. ARTISTIC TEAM LARA DAVIS, originally from Atlanta, began her dance training at the Tolbert Yilmaz School of Dance in Roswell, Georgia where she was a member of the preprofessional company Roswell Dance Theatre for eight years. As a member of RDT, she received training in ballet, pointe, Horton and Graham modern, jazz, and contemporary. During the summers, she trained with American Ballet Theatre, The Rock School, Joffrey Ballet NYC, Joffrey Ballet South, Dance Canvas, METdance Houston, Point Park University, Colorado Conservatory of Dance, the National Choreography Intensive, and the 2012 Georgia Governor’s Honors Program as a Dance Major. Lara also studied abroad in Russia with the Voronezh Ballet in 2017. Lara graduated with highest honors from the University of Georgia with Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Honors Interdisciplinary Studies in Dance Science and a minor in Dance. Her honors thesis explored the topic of Injury Prevention in Ballet Training. In Atlanta, Lara danced professionally with The Georgia Ballet, Watershed Dance Theatre, Dance Canvas, and Refuge Dance Company. Lara has participated in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s Horton Teacher Training and Full Radius Dance’s Teacher Training, focusing on physically integrated dance (primarily dance using wheelchairs).

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Production Crew Her choreography has been presented in a number of settings including for the stage and for film. Lara presented her piece “Escape” set on the dancers of the Roswell Dance Theatre at the 2013 Southeastern Regional Ballet Association Festival, and her choreography “Ode to my School Days” was presented at the Dance Canvas 10th Anniversary Performance (March 2018) at the Ferst Center for the Arts and at The Georgia Ballet’s “Dancers Up Close” performance (April 2018). Most recently, Lara choreographed for the Texas Tech Scarlet Voce Choir’s “I Have a Voice” Choregie Film Production (December 2020). EMILY LOWKE is a senior at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas where she majors in General Studies and minors in Dance and Health Professions with a focus in Pre-Nursing. She is a member of Chi Tau Epsilon, Dancer’s with Soul Hip Hop Team, and University Dance Company at Texas Tech. She is originally from Arlington, Texas where she trained at Momentum Dance as a member of their competition dance company. She has trained in many styles over the last 17 years, including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and hip hop. Emily has attended numerous conventions, competitions, and master classes in various areas around the United States. She has also toured with Celebrity Dance Competition and Convention as a part of their select senior crew and a convention assistant. She is currently the jazz teacher at Ballet Lubbock where she enjoys sharing her knowledge with her students.

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Studio Sessions: Foundation

STUDIO SESSIONS: FOUNDATION CLASS ON STAGE (Level 8 & Company) taught by Yvonne Racz Key Music................................................................................................................... Becca Zeisler Dancers.............................................................................Maya Al-Hmoud, Xaria Atienza, Liliana Hale, Reagan Hunter, Brooke Lieberman, Leah Lieberman, Catherine Lituania, Bridget Mitchell, Christian Osby, John Rowley, Morgan Thompson Guest Performer: Emma Gray CLASSICAL VARIATION – Variation II (Allegro) (Deborah de Farias) Choreographer ..........................................................................................Yvonne Racz Key Music............................................ Swan Lake, Act III: Appendix 1, Variation II (Allegro) Composer.......................................................................................Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn Dancer........................................................................................................Deborah de Farias CONCERTO FOR TWO CELLOS (Level 7 Ballet) Choreographer..................................................................................................... Lara Davis Music............................................................................................... Concerto for Two Cellos Composer......................................................................................................Antonio Vivaldi Dancers ............................ Ellie Cude, Talitha Dalton, Evelyn Fisher, Alexandria Flores, Maia Freeman-Cerda, Charity Neel, Samantha Odom, Addison Reynolds, Jayla Shaw, Katy Jane St. Clair, Indie Williams

EYES CLOSED AND TRAVELING (Level 8 & Company Modern) Choreographer......................................................................................................Lara Davis Music............................................................................................ Eyes Closed and Traveling Composer.......................................................................................................Peter Broderick Dancers.............................................................................Maya Al-Hmoud, Xaria Atienza, Liliana Hale, Reagan Hunter, Brooke Lieberman, Leah Lieberman, Catherine Lituania, Bridget Mitchell, Christian Osby, John Rowley, Morgan Thompson Guest Performer: Emma Gray

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Studio Sessions: Foundation KEEP ON DANCING (Selected Dancers Jazz) Choreographer...................................................................Emily Lowke & Katelyn Lowke Music...................................................................................................Britney Spears Medley Artist.................................................................................................................Britney Spears Dancers ........................................................................Maya Al-Hmoud, Bridget Mitchell, Reagan Hunter, John Rowley, Morgan Thompson Guest Performer: Emma Gray THE BALL (Level 8 & Company Ballet) Choreographer..........................................................................................Yvonne Racz Key Music................................................................................................................... Brandenburg Artist.................................................................................................................... Black Violin Dancers.............................................................................Maya Al-Hmoud, Xaria Atienza, Liliana Hale, Reagan Hunter, Brooke Lieberman, Leah Lieberman, Catherine Lituania, Bridget Mitchell, Christian Osby, John Rowley, Morgan Thompson Guest Performer: Emma Gray

GUEST PERFORMERS DEBORAH DE FARIAS is a Ballet Lubbock alumnus and a current Ballet Lubbock instructor. Deborah has trained with Ballet Lubbock, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Ballet Dalal Achcar, Petite Danse, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and Texas Ballet Theatre. She is continuing her training at Texas Tech as a Dance BFA major. BECCA ZIESLER is a Senior Staff Accompanist at Texas Tech University where she performs in recital with students and faculty, and spends her summers with the Houston Ballet playing class. She has previously been on staff as a pianist at the Boston Ballet, José Mateo Ballet Theatre, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Becca received her Masters degree from Boston University in Collaborative Piano and her Bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Maya Al-Hmoud Xaria Atienza Brooke Lieberman Catherine Lituania Bridget Mitchell

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Friends of the Ballet FRIENDS OF THE BALLET are people who give a tax-deductable gift towards the genreal operation of Ballet Lubbock. These gifts ensure the highest quality programming and community engagement at accessible prices. Invest at www.balletlubbock.org. Ballet Lubbock wishes to thank this season’s FRIENDS OF THE BALLET for their invaluable support and investment in Lubbock’s cultural fabric. BENEFACTOR: GIFTS OF $5,000 & UP Harold Evensky & Deena Katz Terry Hoopman Lory and Rob Ioppolo Michele and Bedford Jones Claire and Wyatt Leavell Rebecca and Michael Moss DIRECTOR: GIFTS OF $2,500-$4,999 Sam and Linda Dragga Shyrle and K.W. Hill Leslie and Jamel Vaughn PRINCIPAL: GIFTS OF $1,000-$2,499 Julia and Darrin Camp Marina Chavez and Miguel Villarreal Audra and Miles Day Darrell Ellison Timothy Futrell Whitney and Chris Holley Stacy and Douglas Kern Patti and Jim Lupton Norman & Phyllis Neel Janeen Patterson Dwight Sanders Kay and Douglas Sanford Diana and Chris St. Clair Barbara and Michael Stephens

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Friends of the Ballet SOLOIST GIFTS OF $500-$999 Holly and Charlie Russell Katie and John Salter Ann Sanders Karen Savage Nancy and Scott Sharp Angela Templin Yvette and Rafael Tomacruz Idris Rhea Traylor Laura and Mark Vinson Patricia and Charles Wheeler Leslie and Ken Williams

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