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San Francisco Ballet's Program 6: An homage to abstract ballet and the contemporary dancer’s talents

By Jaime Robles, 07 April 2016
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“fascinating and intelligent”
Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 5 April 2016
Programme
Prism (Helgi Tomasson)
Seven Sonatas (Alexei Ratmansky)
Rush© (Christopher Wheeldon)
Performers
San Francisco Ballet
Maria Kochetkova, Dancer
Joan Boada, Dancer
Gennadi Nedvigin, Dancer
Frances Chung, Dancer
Mathilde Froustey, Dancer
Joseph Walsh, Dancer
Vanessa Zahorian, Dancer
Davit Karapetyan, Dancer
Sofiane Sylve, Dancer
Luke Ingham, Dancer
Taras Domitro, Dancer
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Jaime Robles
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.