District Storyville

Choreography by Donald McKayle
Performed May 2003 by Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley

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Little Lou:
Shingo Yoshimoto
  Little Lou with
Maximo Califano
The Countess:
Jenni Chiarelli

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Jenni Chiarelli with Julia Cherlow The Countess
Roni Mahler
Jenni Chiarelli

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Jenni Chiarelli with Dalia Rawson   . . . . . . and Tiffany Glenn

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Dalia Rawson Willie Anderson and Tiffany Glenn

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Karen Gabay . . .   Shingo Yoshimoto   . . .

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Shingo Yoshimoto
and Jenni Chiarelli
Stephane Dalle
and Kai Davis
Roni Mahler and
Daniel Gwatkin
Maximo Califano
with Jenni Chiarelli
and Julia Cherlow

Donald McKayle’s District Storyville is set to the original music of Dorothea Freitag, the jazz of Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, with a touch of traditional New Orleans funeral and parade music. It is a bold and bawdy picture of the legendary New Orleans bordello district at the turn of the century when the roots of jazz were forming, the horn was king and a young trumpet player named Louis Armstrong was just beginning to create the music he would later turn into a national art form.

Photo images copyright © 2003 Bob Shomler. Please see the Copyright Page.

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