Contemporary Voices in San Francisco

Von Terez Rose, 13 März 2017

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“an evening of dance that stretched out from the sinister to the sublime”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, am 9 März 2017

Fusion (Val Caniparoli, Myles Thatcher, Yuri Possokhov)

Salomé (Arthur Pita)

Fearful Symmetries (Liam Scarlett)

San Francisco Ballet

Frances Chung, Tanz

Dores André, Tanz

Anita Paciotti, Tanz

Diego Cruz, Tanz

Steven Morse, Tanz

Lonnie Weeks, Tanz

Vitor Luiz, Tanz

Joseph Walsh, Tanz

Jennifer Stahl, Tanz

Luke Ingham, Tanz

Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

*****

North American premiere of Caniparoli's Jekyll & Hyde is gripping

Hilary Stroh, 13th October

Enthralling, intense and terrifying, yet compellingly watchable. It may send chills down the spine but it is quite brilliantly portrayed.

*****

Charm and wit abound in San Francisco Ballet's Don Quixote

Terez Rose, 26th February

Helgi Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov's restaging of the 1869 Petipa classic brings a sunny smile to faces in San Francisco.

****1

Visions of Classical (Re)Vision in San Francisco

Jaime Robles, 11th February

“Your love affair with ballet, your time with ballet, is short,” explains Welsh about his ballet Bespoke, “Eventually you lay down, and dance keeps moving. It’s a bittersweet thing.”

****1

Distinctly SF

Terez Rose, 15th February

San Francisco Ballet delivers the distinct and the relevant in a mixed-bill program of choreographic works that includes Ghosts in the Machine.

****1

Ballet West, The Joyce

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 13th October

Once again, kudos to Adam Sklute and Ballet West for putting on a program of mostly new or recent works created for the company.

***11

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Terez Rose

Terez Rose is a writer and former dancer whose work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and online publications. She is the author (as Terez Mertes Rose) of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles (Off Balance, Outside the Limelight, Ballet Orphans, Other Stages) and A Dancer’s Guide to Africa. Visit her at The Classical Girl where she blogs about classical music and the performing arts.

Arthur Pita’s Salome for San Francisco Ballet is both sexy and sinister