Welcome to Foolish Voices! On this show we talk to a wide range of theatre & performing artists, both here in Sun Valley and all across the world, about how the current global health crisis is impacting their work, about their creative lives, and about their hopes for the future of our art form.
Please consider supporting Company of Fools by making a donation, in any amount, via our podcast platform or online at svmoa.org.
In this episode, we are talking with international ballet superstar, Christopher Stowell!
Christopher is the son of ballet legends Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, and received his training at Pacific Northwest Ballet School and the School of American Ballet. In 1985, he joined San Francisco Ballet where he danced for 16 years, appearing in theatres throughout the world including the Paris Opéra Ballet, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. As a Principal Dancer, Mr. Stowell performed leading roles in dozens of full-length ballet classics and appeared in almost every Balanchine ballet performed by San Francisco Ballet.
In 2003, Mr. Stowell was named the Artistic Director of Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT), a position he held until 2012.
In addition to serving as Ballet Master and Assistant to the Artistic Director at San Francisco Ballet for the 2014/15 season, he recently worked in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Beijing and Copenhagen, and created his first work for Los Angeles Ballet and his first film for the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. In 2017, Mr. Stowell joined The National Ballet of Canada as Associate Artistic Director.
Learn more about the National Ballet of Canada online here!
