A lagging economy and lack of sufficient donations has forced City Ballet to postpone the last show of its season until November, said managing director Jo Anne Emery. “We didn\u2019t want to go forward with something when we didn\u2019t have all the funding in place, thinking it\u2019s going to come,” Emery said. “The money wasn\u2019t there, and we weren\u2019t going to jeopardize the future of the company by just going forward.” “Celebrate Balanchine” was slated to run May 7 to 9 and would have cost approximately $100,000 to stage, about half of which would have come from ticket sales, Emery said. The other half would have been funded through donations, which have waned in the last year due to the poor economy. “Last [season], when the economy kind of took a nosedive \u2026 that was just before our \u2018Nutcracker\u2019 performances, and it really effected ticket sales, but donations were still good,” Emery said. “This year, it is kind of the other way around. We\u2019ve seen ticket sales starting to come back up, but it\u2019s the donations that are going down.” The production is now scheduled for Nov. 5 to 7 and will be the opening performance of the 2010-11 season. The two-hour program will feature four dances choreographed by the late ballet master George Balanchine, who coached City Ballet\u2019s artistic director Steven Wistrich in the 1970s. The company\u2019s management team chose to postpone the show rather than cancel it because they had already invested money in permissions from The George Balanchine Trust to perform his dances and on choreography, which can be used for the production in the fall, Emery said. The rest of the show\u2019s expenses would have been incurred during the actual performance due to the cost of renting the theater, lighting and costumes, hiring stagehands and ushers, and paying the dancers\u2019 salaries, Emery said. The company now hopes that a matching donation challenge launched by long-time City Ballet supporter Fred Kiko and his friends will encourage new contributions. Earlier this year, Kiko pledged to match up to $70,000 in donations received by City Ballet before June 30. “We know that this economy is not going to be bad forever,” Emery said. “We are seeing things turning around, it\u2019s just taking a little longer in the arts.” The company is also proceeding as planned with its annual patron fundraiser June 6 as well as its three-week Summer Intensive program, which will take place at City Ballet\u2019s Pacific Beach studios, 941 Garnet Ave., beginning July 26. For more information about City Ballet, or to make a donation, visit www.cityballet.org or call (858) 274-6058.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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