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Tulsa Ballet's Alfonso Martin Looks Back on His Stellar Career in Dance --- and Previews "Dracula"

We are pleased to welcome to ST Alfonso Martin, a Principal Dancer with Tulsa Ballet who first joined the company in 1998 as a Demi-Soloist. This season, Martin's 14th with TulsaBallet, will be his last; he's decided to "go out while still on top" in terms of his retirement from dancing. Martin's professional career, which has also included stints with Boston Ballet and Ballet de Monterrey in Mexico, has given the chance to dance in all of the leading roles in the classical repertory; he's also been featured in works by John Cranko, Val Caniparoli, Birgit Cullberg, George Balanchine, Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Robert North, Nacho Duato, John Butler, Twyla Tharp, Fredrick Ashton, Christopher Wheeldon, Edwaard Liang, Jorma Elo, and Ma Cong. This coming weekend, from October 26th (Friday) through the 28th (Sunday), Tulsa Ballet will present a popular (and seasonally appropriate) work by Ben Stevenson, "Dracula" (with music by Franz Liszt) --- and Martin will appear in the lead role. Martin reflects on his career, and his fondness for playing a certain well-known vampire, on this edition of our show. (You can learn more about Tulsa Ballet's upcoming "Dracula" --- including details about show times and tickets --- and this link.)

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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