Ballet West, The Joyce

By Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 15 October 2017

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“well worth going out of your way to see”

Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 13 October 2017

Fox on the Doorstep (Nicolo Fonte)

Dances for Lou (Val Caniparoli)

Ballet West

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

Richmond Ballet

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 9th May

Richmond Ballet's dancers are an engaging bunch who aim to please and their goodwill radiated from the stage.

**111

Contemporary Voices in San Francisco

Terez Rose, 9th March

Set to Frank Moon’s moody, thematic score, the curtain rises on a foggy night scene as a shiny black stretch limousine glides onstage—the real deal, dazzling to behold, like a noir film come to life.

****1

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Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Andrew is currently a professional chef in New York City but he began life as a ballet dancer with the Hartford and Ohio Ballet companies. His writing also appears on the Huffington Post Blog and BroadwayWorld.com. His latest work, nominated for a James Beard Award, is “Return to the Rivers”, a Himalayan cookbook.

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