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PragueLiliom

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

EdimbourgMere Mortals

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Shepherd (Floating Points): Mere Mortals
Aszure Barton; San Francisco Ballet; Martin West; Hamill Industries; Michelle Jank; Jim French

LondresSan Francisco Ballet – Mere Mortals

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Shepherd (Floating Points): Mere Mortals
Aszure Barton; San Francisco Ballet; Hamill Industries; Michelle Jank; Jim French

ChicagoLiliom – Joffrey Ballet

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Legrand: Liliom
John Neumeier; Joffrey Ballet; Ferdinand Wögerbauer; Jim French
Critiques récentesEn voir plus...

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.

Philosophy amid movement in San Francisco Ballet’s Dance Innovations

The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.