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ATTENTION! ARE YOU A PART OF OAKLAND BALLET COMPANY’S HISTORY?

Please check to see if you are included in the OBC Legacy Alumni Database. We
want to keep you informed on the legacy project, its progress, and to claim your
spot on the OBC Alumni Listing Page.

Alumni, dancers, choreographers, teachers, students, administrators, board
members, set and costume designers are all part of OBC history. If you find that
your name is NOT on the current list, please sign up!

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The Oakland Ballet Company Legacy Project is a collaboration between The Ronn
Guidi Foundation for Dance, Oakland Ballet Company, and ChromaDiverse, to
preserve, protect, and present the important works of this world-renowned dance
company.  


Donate to the OBC Legacy Project*

*OBC Legacy Project – NEA Matching Grant Fund






> “Archiving matters. History matters. The record matters.”
> 
> — Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel




HISTORY



Founded in 1965 by Oakland native Ronn Guidi, and currently under the direction
of Graham Lustig, Oakland Ballet Company celebrates over half a century of
critically acclaimed choreographed works, worldwide performances, dedicated
dance training, and impactful educational programs helping empower our community
quality of life. 



The Oakland Ballet Company revived iconic works by renowned choreographers such
as Kurt Jooss, Michel Fokine, Charles Weidman, and Antony Tudor. OBC also
championed American masterpieces, presenting Eugene Loring’s Billy the Kid,
Ruthanna Boris’s Cakewalk, and Agnes de Mille’s Fall River Legend. The company
continues this tradition today commissioning works from local choreographers
such as Betsy Erickson, Michael Lowe, Robert Moses, and Amy Seiwert.



Graham Lustig became Artistic Director of OBC in 2010 and presented a new
production of The Nutcracker at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre, as well as an
annual Spring season rooted in contemporary works creating partnerships with
local artists such as the TurfFeinz and Nava Dance Theater.  In 2016, he began
presenting Luna Mexicana, a celebration of Día de los Muertos, at the Paramount
and throughout schools in the East Bay. He expanded OBC’s education programs.
Discover Dance providing in-school and in-theater assemblies, reaching more than
12,000 East Bay students each year, and You Can Dance! bringing movement-based
learning into the schools. 



In March of 2022, in collaboration with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center,
Lustig launched a new initiative titled The Dancing Moons Festival in
celebration of Asian American Pacific Island choreographers, composers and
designers.




> “The impact of ChromaDiverse’s work will not only be to strengthen the
> organizations they work with, but to improve the public’s access to archival
> records of dance.”
> 
> — Imogen Smith, Director of Archiving and Preservation, Dance/USA




ABOUT THE RONN GUIDI FOUNDATION FOR DANCE

After Guidi’s retirement from Oakland Ballet in 2001, he formed the Ronn Guidi
Foundation for Dance. Its mission was to support performances of the Sergei
Diaghilev Ballet Russes era ballets, early 20th century masterworks, and
original ballets created by him and by dancers from the Company. 

Upon Guidi’s death in 2021, the foundation’s newly appointed, President, Ron
Thiele, realized the historical and magical gift of dance that was hidden away
in boxes, closets and storage facilities. Ronn Guidi had bequeathed a treasure
trove of OBC’s history to the foundation.   

To help preserve these past works and utilize them to build on the historic
legacy of OBC, the foundation has updated its goals: 

 * To realign the Ronn Guidi Foundation for Dance with the Oakland Ballet
   Company.
 * To support OBC alumni with artistic resources and information to restage
   historic works from the Guidi Foundation repertoire.
 * To digitally preserve the OBC Legacy Archive as a living and accessible
   resource for the restaging of works, training, and inspiring the public’s
   understanding of this American ballet company, its impact on our community,
   and the power of its legacy to enhance our community and all of its arts.



> “The launch of the Oakland Ballet Company Legacy Project is pivotal to this
> dance history-making organization, its countless friends, researchers, fans,
> artists, students, and supporters. Together, with ChromaDiverse as guide, we
> will memorialize, record, and perpetuate OBC’s extraordinarily rich legacy by
> architecting a vibrant living archive for all time.”
> 
> —Laird Rodet, Oakland Ballet General Manager, 1988-1993




PARTNERING WITH CHROMADIVERSE




Ron Thiele reached out to Judy Tyrus, former Oakland ballet dancer. He sought
her expertise and guidance to organize and make the OBC collection digitally
accessible. After learning of the cloud-based digital archive management system
developed by her company, he knew he had found a solution to meet the many
challenges the Foundation and the Oakland Ballet are facing to help continue the
empowering impact of the arts in our community. 

ChromaDiverse’s CD DigitalVault™ is a digital asset management system that not
only captures the past but is developed to be a “living archive” that has the
capacity to grow with each performance year. Once in place, it provides digital
preservation and easy access to assets for everyday marketing, fundraising,
training, restaging choreographic works and research.   




SUPPORT THE OBC LEGACY PROJECT

Donations made to the Oakland Ballet Company Legacy Project are managed by
ChromaDiverse and will be used for:  

 * Setting up the OBC Legacy Project CD DigitalVault™  
 * Archival assessment  
 * Digitization 
 * Onboarding and Training of Staff  
 * “Smart Capture” of historic content in performance programs 
 * Creation of the OBCLP website for internal and public access  

The Ronn Guidi Foundation and Oakland Ballet Company are very excited to work
with ChromaDiverse to protect the legacy of the Oakland Ballet Company – now and
into the future. 


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