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Legrand: Liliom
John Neumeier; The Czech National Ballet; Ferdinand Wögerbauer; Jim French; Prague State Opera Orchestra

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John Neumeier; Joffrey Ballet; Ferdinand Wögerbauer; Jim French
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Mere Mortals: a triumph for San Francisco Ballet in Edinburgh

San Francisco Ballet in Aszure Barton’s Mere Mortals © Andrew Perry/Edinburgh International Festival
With its dazzle of exploding background (Hamill Industries) and breathtaking electronic music/soundscape from Sam Shepherd (aka Floating Points), Mere Mortals was truly an onslaught on the senses.

A timely new Eugene Onegin opens the San Francisco Ballet season

Katherine Barkman and Joseph Walsh in Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin © Lindsey Rallo
Yuri Possokhov’s reimagining of the classic based on Alexander Pushkin’s iconic 19th century novel, succeeds brilliantly in a masterful season opener and world premiere for the San Francisco Ballet.

Broken Wings soars in SF Ballet’s Dos Mujeres

San Francisco Ballet in Arielle Smith's Carmen © Reneff-Olson Productions
Annabel Lopez Ochoa's Broken Wings is a ballet you’ll want to see again and again, one that illuminates, empowers and soars.

Mere Mortals explores the Pandora myth in a sensory extravaganza

San Francisco Ballet in Aszure Barton and Sam Shepherd's Mere Mortals © Chris Hardy
Mere Mortals, an immersive sensory-experience ballet that merges dance, lights, visuals and sound, is clever.

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

Kansas City Ballet in Val Caniparoli's Jekyll and Hyde © Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios
Enthralling, intense and terrifying, yet compellingly watchable. It may send chills down the spine but it is quite brilliantly portrayed. 

Royal Ballet Flanders: it's either bemusing or brilliant!

Royal Ballet Flanders in Jermaine Spivey's Extant © OBV/Filip Van Roe

Three linked works of contemporary ballet provoke a very mixed response.