Yellowstone Ballet Company presents a spectacular gala performance Saturday, June 25th 7:00 p.m. at the Crawford Theater in Bozeman followed by a lightly-catered “Meet & Greet” with photo opportunities and an interactive artists’ panel with the national and international professional cast members.

Natalie Portman’s Black Swan Double, Sarah Lane, Performs In Bozeman

Sarah Lane, a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre and Natalie Portman’s dance double in the movie Black Swan will be featured at the Bozeman gala. Portman won an Oscar for her performance of a tormented ballerina although Lane purportedly performed the majority of the dancing. 

Lane joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in August 2003, became a member of the Company’s corps de ballet in 2004 and was appointed a Soloist in 2007. She was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2017. Her principal roles with the Company include La Bayadère, Coppélia, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote, Giselle, The Golden Cockerel, The Green Table, Harlequinade, Manon, Onegin, Other Dances, The Sleeping Beauty, Le Spectre de la Rose, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Theme and Variations among others.

Lane will be dancing the White Swan Pas de Deux with Hernan Montenegro of Santiago, Chile where he graduated from the Escuela de Ballet del Teatro Municipal de Santiago. At the age of 16, he won a silver medal at the Lima International Ballet Competition. In 2016, Hernan began dancing with Ballet de Santiago and performed soloist and principal roles in ballets such as Raymonda, Firebird, The Magic Flute, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Onegin, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Cinderella. He has performed almost every classic choreographed by John Cranko as well as the choreographies of Maurice Bejart, Jaime Pinto, Peter Schaufuss, Luis Ortigoza, Marcia Haydee, George Balanchine, Glenn Tetley, and Eduardo Yedro. He has performed at multiple festivals and tours in Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Poland and recently was dance partner for American Ballet Theatre principal Gillian Murphy.

Scenes From Rakela’s Original The Song of Hiawatha

In addition to classical pas de deux, YBC will be reprising scenes from Kathleen Rakela’s original ballet The Song of Hiawatha. This 3-Act ballet was performed in 2005 with dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Moscow Ballet, and Houston Ballet. It includes narration from Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s epic poem by Broadway actor, singer, and orator Robert Worobec.

Cameron Fraser-Monroe, a member of the Tla’amin First Nation in Powell River, B.C will perform the role of the “Great Peacemaker”  Hiawatha. Fraser-Monroe first studied Ukranian dance as a child. He received an Royal Winnipeg Alumni Scholarship and trained and danced with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He currently dances with the Atlantic Ballet of Canada.

YBC’s gala is a fundraiser for future company performances.

For Performance and Interactive Meet & Greet Soirée Tickets: www.yellowstoneballet.info. For more information email: yellowstoneballet@gmail.com. To purchase tickets by cash or check email YBCtxs@gmail.com.