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

By Jaime Robles, 29 March 2019

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

Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 27 March 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, Countertenor

Matheus Coura, Countertenor

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.