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

Par Jaime Robles, 29 mars 2019

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“There is a kind of purity... a very human sense of longing and loss”

Critique faite à War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, le 27 mars 2019

Your Flesh shall be a Great Poem (Trey McIntyre)

Bound To (Christopher Wheeldon)

Two united in a single soul . . . (Yuri Possokhov)

San Francisco Ballet

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Contre-ténor

Matheus Coura, Contre-ténor

Philosophy amid movement in San Francisco Ballet’s Dance Innovations

Terez Rose, 13th February

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.

****1

Pure dance with joyful power

Graham Watts, 7th June

An exciting London season closes with a glimpse of where ballet is headed, San Francisco style.

*****

Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

Jaime Robles, 24th April

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

****1

Harlem, Funk and a bit of Schubert

Hilary Stroh, 7th March

It’s not about being on the biggest stage that matters, but what you do on any stage at all – dance like there is no-one watching. But, happily in this case, we are.

****1

Bowie and Queen at the ballet

Hilary Stroh, 5th May

Dazzling pop-ballet 'Bowie and Queen' marks Company Director's grand finale

*****

Angel Corella’s Pennsylvania Ballet at the Joyce

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 29th March

Pennsylvania Ballet looked very good in this opening show, their first in New York since Angel Corella took over as Artistic Director

***11

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.