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Visions of Classical (Re)Vision in San Francisco

Visions of Classical (Re)Vision in San Francisco

Por Jaime Robles, 11 febrero 2020

“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.”

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Eifman Ballet in a strangely psychological Pygmalion Effect

Eifman Ballet in a strangely psychological Pygmalion Effect

Por Jaime Robles, 31 mayo 2019

Eifman has said he wants move dance back into theater and to use movement to explore the psychological. Both of these the company accomplishes.

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Alonzo King's LINES Ballet goes wild

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet takes a walk on the wild side

Por Jaime Robles, 12 abril 2019

A projection of green sky above shadowy mountains hovered behind their duet, and the curved bodies of the other dancers moved, barely visible, in the darkness of downstage.

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The solace of love in San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5: Lyric Voices

The solace of love in San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5: Lyric Voices

Por Jaime Robles, 27 marzo 2019

There is a kind of purity to Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem, and a very human sense of longing and loss.

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Xenos: The generous sorrow of Akram Khan

Xenos: The generous sorrow of Akram Khan

Por Jaime Robles, 02 marzo 2019

He turns and turns, elliptically and with the speed of a skater on ice. Sheer muscle defies gravity and the friction of feet on terra firma.

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Jessica Lang Dance, pleasing but disappointing

Jessica Lang Dance, pleasing but disappointing

Por Jaime Robles, 28 febrero 2019

Lang’s choreography lacks the hectic drollness and biting originality of Tharp’s, and while accessible it is also sweeter and blander.

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An alluring Common Ground

An alluring Common Ground in Lines Ballet / Kronos Quartet collaboration

Por Jaime Robles, 06 octubre 2018

Abstract ballet always asks the question of meaning, and Alonzo King Lines Ballet is one of the few companies that answers that question with existential exactness.

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No lonely hearts in MMDG’s Pepperland

No lonely hearts in MMDG’s Pepperland

Por Jaime Robles, 28 septiembre 2018

What makes this piece entirely Mark Morris is, even more than the dancing, the music.

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Preserving and making new the Smuin legacy

Walnut Creek

Preserving and making new the Smuin legacy

Por Jaime Robles, 22 septiembre 2018

McIntyre knows how to infuse ballet steps with an ironic angularity and kinetics that sit just on the other side of punchy.

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The final program in SF Ballet's Unbound festival

The final program in San Francisco Ballet's wonderful Unbound festival

Por Jaime Robles, 26 abril 2018

Most of the pieces were choreographed at a similarly demanding level, with speed, precision and immaculate timing as necessities.

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Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

SF Ballet's Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

Por Jaime Robles, 24 abril 2018

Benjamin Freemantle danced the opening solo, gorgeously, in the role of the grandfather as a dreamy young Adonis.

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San Francisco: a world of new works

San Francisco Ballet steps into a world of new dance

Por Jaime Robles, 20 abril 2018

Sneakers gave even the most challenging of balletic steps a freer, looser quality, as if the dancers were about to step into flight.

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Beauty and madness mingle in Nijinsky

Beauty and madness mingle in Nijinsky

Por Jaime Robles, 03 abril 2018

Neumeier has a real talent for stepping easily between the interior world of individual fantasy and the exterior world of reality.

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West Edge Opera’s Snapshots of the future

West Edge Opera’s Snapshots of the future

Por Jaime Robles, 25 febrero 2018

The program presented excerpts from five new works in a riotously diverse selection, from an adaptation of the unfinished Fitzgerald novel, The Last Tycoon, to Death of a Playboy, an imaginary reenactment of Hugh Hefner’s funeral.

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Wang Ramirez take Borderline to California

With Borderline Company Wang Ramirez explores dance on the ground and in the air

Por Jaime Robles, 24 febrero 2018

A cube hangs suspended at an angle and Ramirez, harnessed to a line above the stage, floats above it, fulfilling the promise of dance and the human desire to escape gravity – to fly in angelic weightlessness.

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San Francisco Ballet’s dazzling “Bright Fast Cool Blue”

Por Jaime Robles, 13 febrero 2018

From the ethereal to the galavanting, the program offered a spectrun of emotions delivered with precise technique and abandoned energy.

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Bright, Fast, Cool, Blue

Wendy Whelan / Brian Brooks: Some of a Thousand Words

Some of a thousand ... steps (Wendy Whelan & Brian Brooks)

Por Jaime Robles, 29 noviembre 2017

The body as it moves, in all its human vulnerability, is never free of emotion. Wendy Whelan and Brian Brooks collaborate on Some of A Thosand Words, performed in San Francisco.

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Reggie Wilson ans Fist and Heel Performance Group

The bold and beautiful Joffrey Ballet

Por Jaime Robles, 17 noviembre 2017

Eclectic and contemporary, The Joffrey Ballet reimagines human and kinetic beauty.

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Finding freedom with the Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group

Por Jaime Robles, 23 septiembre 2017

What the choreography of everyday movement creates in the viewer is a sense of nostalgia and poignancy.

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A storybook world of ballet

Por Jaime Robles, 13 agosto 2017

From La Sylphide To Morris' contemporary The Hard Nut, fairytales are often at the centre of ballets' libretti

A storybook world of ballet

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13 ago 2017

Dorrance Dance and The Blues Project

Londres

‘DESH’: Akram Khan’s luscious journey home

Por Jaime Robles, 31 mayo 2017

Fantastical, innocent and full of wonder.

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SF Ballet’s Program 7: Made to Dance

Por Jaime Robles, 08 abril 2017

Changes in pace for a brilliantly dynamic company.

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Tapping the planet’s heart beat: Dorrance Dance and The Blues Project

Por Jaime Robles, 16 marzo 2017

An unwavering pattern of sound, insistent in its energy and commitment.

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Must See Balanchine program in San Francisco

San Francisco Ballet’s Program 4 is a must see for Balanchine fans

Por Jaime Robles, 07 marzo 2017

It’s all there: flashy extensions whipped into ecstatic heights, bravura speed and precision, intricate entanglements of dancers, whimsical wit and the loving nod to an adulation of Woman.

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Cullberg Ballet: Figures a Sea

Frankenstein at San Francisco Ballet: Is traditional ballet enough?

Por Jaime Robles, 17 febrero 2017

Here technology breathes theatricality into vast architectural sets, where shadows haunt and light electrifies.

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The revival of Available Light

Por Jaime Robles, 03 febrero 2017

Repetition is central to the Available Light's formal elegance.

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The sea is a subtle dance: Cullberg Ballet's collaboration with Deborah Hay

Por Jaime Robles, 22 octubre 2016

“I sing a wordless song that arises from and combines joy and sorrow into a single melody that resonates through my bones.”

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Postcard from Los Angeles: extravagant, splendid, entertaining

Por Jaime Robles, 03 octubre 2016

Take a stroll on probably the most famous beach in the world or choose between a large variety of cultural performances. Read Jaime Robles' guide for a must do and see.

Postcard from Los Angeles

03 oct 2016

Mark Morris / Silk Road ensemble: Layla and Majnun

A fiery Layla and Majnun première by the Silk Road Ensemble and Mark Morris Dance Group

Por Jaime Robles, 30 septiembre 2016

The staging required that the dancers move through and around the musicians, and this intertwining gave the piece a coherent visual identity and a flowing energy.

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Merola's “Così fan tutte” is something to sing about

Merola's “Così fan tutte” is something to sing about

Por Jaime Robles, 04 agosto 2016

While updated from the 18th century, the Merola Opera Program’s version of Così maintained a gaiety and sly wit that depended on the singers’ beautiful and virtuosic voices for its success.

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Speak Angels, Garrett / Moulton

When Garrett + Moulton speak, the angels dance

Por Jaime Robles, 28 julio 2016

In the most subtle way, the two choreographers create a portrait of the forces of destiny by emphasizing the kinetic by using live music as the primary supporting element for the dance.

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Merola Opera Program presents Susa’s Transformations

Opera tranforms: The Merola Opera Program presents Susa’s Transformations

Por Jaime Robles, 21 julio 2016

Witty, edgy and full of Freudian insight, Anne Sexton’s libretto updates the dark and bizarre world of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Conrad Susa’s music is equally droll and contemporary.

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The old, the new: Avant-garde works at San Francisco Ballet

Por Jaime Robles, 07 abril 2016

What Wheeldon seems to have used from this musical concept for the formation of the choreography is the idea of a mechanical universe, overrun by the presence of time.

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San Francisco Ballet's Program 6: An homage to abstract ballet and the contemporary dancer’s talents

Por Jaime Robles, 05 abril 2016

A vast world of movement rose in celebration of the body’s athleticism and its subtle connection to emotions and personality.

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The sweetness of innocence: San Francisco Ballet's Coppélia

Por Jaime Robles, 08 marzo 2016

This version of Coppélia is a testament to Balanchine’s ability to accept the history of dance with equanimity and grace.

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Balanchine's Coppélia

Chitresh Das' Shiva : A Tribute

The final miraculous dance of Chitresh Das

Por Jaime Robles, 27 febrero 2016

Shiva draws in the audience, presenting the anguish and struggle of both the human and the divine as they are captured in existence, reeling in the universe in the midst of great pain and great joy.

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Singing The Heart of Darkness: Tarik O’Regan’s opera premieres in America

San Francisco Ballet's Program 2: Witty, Fun and Not So Witty or Fun

Por Jaime Robles, 27 enero 2016

San Francisco Ballet opens Program 2 of the 2016 season with pieces by two cornerstone American choreographers, George Balanchine and Mark Morris, and a world première by British choreographer Liam Scarlett.

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Singing The Heart of Darkness: Tarik O’Regan’s opera premieres in America

Por Jaime Robles, 02 mayo 2015

The effect was like raindrops falling on the surface of the world, transforming it from the dull white of fog and industry into saturated colors of fecund leaf and flower.

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Paul Taylor Dance Company in San Francisco

Paul Taylor Dance Company at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Por Jaime Robles, 16 abril 2015

The Paul Taylor dance company presents 10 pieces at the Yerba Buena Center, incuding the 1978 Diggity which is refreshingly simple in its movement, with a dollop of dearness and a dash of the absurd.

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San Francisco Ballet dances Swimmer

San Francisco Ballet’s Program 7 : Caprice,The Four Temperaments and Swimmer

Por Jaime Robles, 10 abril 2015

San Francisco Ballet's Program 7 features Tomasson's Caprice, Balanchine's The Four Temperaments and a new creation, Swimmer, by Yuri Possokhov.

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Transforming George Eliot's Middlemarch into opera

Transforming George Eliot's Middlemarch into opera

Por Jaime Robles, 19 marzo 2015

Shearer’s music is lush, elegant and witty. There is a playful irony that asserts itself.

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On composing choral music: An interview with Ann Callaway

Por Jaime Robles, 17 marzo 2015

An interview with composer Ann Callaway about the art of writing choral music.

On composing choral music: An interview with Ann Callaway

17 mar 2015

Los Angeles

Figaro Unbound in a charming, witty Barber of Seville in Los Angeles

Por Jaime Robles, 28 febrero 2015

Director Trevore Ross emphasized the silly and the madcap in Beaumarchais’ hectic plot to The Barber of Seville. The audience loved it.

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Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!

A five star Robbins - Scarlett programme in San Francisco

San Francisco Ballet contrasts two ensemble dances with piano

Por Jaime Robles, 26 febrero 2015

Jerome Robbins’ note to himself during the making of Dances at a Gathering reads, "Never make up a step. Always make a sequence of movement.”

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Dead Man Walking returns to the Bay Area

Dead Man Walking returns to the Bay Area

Por Jaime Robles, 20 febrero 2015

Opera Parallèle’s superb production of Heggie's Dead Man Walking reveals a prism of anger and forgiveness.

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Opera Medium Rare presents Rossini’s Zelmira

Opera Medium Rare (but well-done!) presents Rossini’s Zelmira in concert

Por Jaime Robles, 17 febrero 2015

West Edge Opera has come up with a means to engage and develop opera audiences in that home of West Coast radicalism, the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Les sept doigts de la main , Sequence 8

The emotional dynamics of Les Doigts de la Main's “Sequence 8”

Por Jaime Robles, 04 febrero 2015

The eighth and newest creation of Les 7 Doigts de la Main "contemplates the role of the ‘other’” in a breath-taking performance of mental and physical acrobatics.

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Lamplighters glitter in Bernstein’s Candide

Lamplighters glitter in Bernstein’s Candide

Por Jaime Robles, 31 enero 2015

The Bernstein operetta is a sassy summation of Voltaire’s classic in this alluring production by The Lamplighters.

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The power of music: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake reimagined for the screen in Aronofsky's Black Swan

Por Jaime Robles, 09 enero 2015

Jaime Robles looks at the use of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake score in Darren Aronofsky's 2010 film Black Swan, and builds bridge between the multifaceted script and the music's unarguable power in the ballet.

The power of music: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake reimagined for the screen in Aronofsky's Black Swan

09 ene 2015

The cinematic intimacy of Joe Goode’s site specific choreography

Por Jaime Robles, 18 diciembre 2014

San Francisco based choreographer Joe Goode talks to Jaime Robles of his upcoming site specific performance Poetics of Space at the Joe Goode Annex, of his attraction to text, voice and music, and of engaging audiences differently.

Joe Goode: Cinematic intimacy

18 dic 2014