Empower : A Prism of New Work
March 20 / 21 / 22
Liberty Station
2590 Truxtun Rd #205, San Diego, CA 92106
Three performances featuring premieres by Carly Topazio, Jeremy Zapanta, and guest choreographer Adriana Pierce. EMPOWER launches TRBP’s Parallax season with a celebration of perspective, power, and authorship in motion.
Empower opens the Parallax season like a prism, splitting one beam into many: three new premieres, three distinct choreographic voices, and a shared invitation to look again. Each work reframes contemporary ballet through a different point of view, illuminating how authorship, identity, and imagination transform what we see, and what we feel.
This is a season kickoff built for more than applause. It’s built for charge: dancers moving with full-bodied clarity, audiences leaning in, a community gathering around the thrill of something new.
Bold, intimate, immediate, Empower doesn’t simply start the season, it sets it in motion. Come for opening weekend. Leave with your perspective slightly rearranged.
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Empoer
Premiere
New Pierce
Choreography
Adriana Pierce
Adriana Pierce brings a choreographic voice shaped by ballet’s precision and the storytelling instincts of theater and film. Her work is known for intricate partnering that gives dancers of all genders equal agency, dismantling traditional dynamics in a way that reads as modern, fluid, and deeply human. A former New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet dancer and an artist whose career spans Broadway and screen, Pierce carries a cinematic sense of pacing and image-making into the studio. She is also the founder of Queer the Ballet, an initiative expanding classical ballet through queer work by queer dance artists, and was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2022.
Premiere
New Topazio
Choreography
Carly Topazio
Carly Topazio adds a new premiere to TRBP’s repertoire with a choreographic voice that has become central to the company’s identity: athletic contemporary ballet with precision, edge, and emotional immediacy. Her work is known for bold spatial design, intricate partnering, and phrasing that moves quickly between velocity and stillness, letting intensity and tenderness exist in the same frame. As TRBP’s Artistic & Executive Director, Topazio’s choreography is shaped by a commitment to making ballet feel close, current, and deeply human, work that meets the audience with directness and lingers after.
Premiere
New Zapanta
Choreography
Jeremy Zapanta
Jeremy Zapanta brings a choreographic voice rooted in contemporary dance, drawing from a range of movement styles to build work that feels both kinetic and sharply intentional. His choreography is often driven by rhythm and structure, using clear patterns, fast shifts in focus, and textured dynamics that can move from expansive ensemble energy to intimate, tactile detail in a heartbeat. Zapanta’s movement language favors grounded weight, fluid transitions, and surprising changes of direction, creating choreography that feels current, genre-bending, and alive.
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