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San Francisco Ballet opens repertory season with Wheeldon’s magical Cinderella

By Terez Rose, 23 January 2020
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“you’d swear Cinderella was in a carriage flying through the air, her cape billowing behind her”
Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 21 January 2020
Programme
Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Performers
San Francisco Ballet
Martin West, Conductor
Julian Crouch, Set Designer, Costume Designer
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Natasha Katz, Costume Designer
Daniel Brodie, Video
Basil Twist, Set Designer
Joseph Walsh, Dancer
Frances Chung, Dancer
Esteban Hernandez, Dancer
Sarah van Patten, Dancer
Elizabeth Powell, Dancer
Ellen Rose Hummel, Dancer
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Terez Rose
Terez Rose

Terez Rose is a writer and former dancer whose work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and online publications. She is the author (as Terez Mertes Rose) of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles (Off Balance, Outside the Limelight, Ballet Orphans, Other Stages) and A Dancer’s Guide to Africa. Visit her at The Classical Girl where she blogs about classical music and the performing arts.