San Francisco Ballet at Sadler's Wells: Programme C

By Margaret Willis, 21 September 2012

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Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 19 September 2012

Beaux (Mark Morris)

Classical Symphony (Yuri Possokhov)

RAkU

Within the Golden Hour (Christopher Wheeldon)

San Francisco Ballet

Damian Smith, Dancer

Pascal Molat, Dancer

Yuan Yuan Tan, Dancer

Maria Kochetkova, Dancer

Sarah van Patten, Dancer

Vanessa Zahorian, Dancer

The dance is not going away party: Mark Morris’ new Northwest

Carla Escoda, 22nd July

Mark Morris Dance Group’s second week at the Joyce Theater in New York unveiled a world premiere in a mixed bill that represented a narrow range of Morris’ dazzling creativity.

***11

Dancers come and go, The Hard Nut fresh as ever

Carla Escoda, 12th December

It's 33 years since its premiere in Brussels, and in its eighth season in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this irreverent American classic is still firing on all cylinders.

*****

Mark Morris’ dance-intensive Orfeo ed Euridice returns to the Met

Susan Stempleski, 16th May

The latest revival of the company’s 2007 stylish production of Gluck’s operatic take on the Orpheus myth is enlivened with superb singing and dancing.

*****

Kansas City Ballet: Barminess in Bliss Point

Hilary Stroh, 12th May

Alexander Ekman's Cacti is the zany highlight of the evening!

*****

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

At the Met, a revival of Orfeo ed Euridice

Edward Sava-Segal, 4th November

Jamie Barton's rich, mellifluous mezzo is ideal for singing Orfeo.

****1

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Margaret Willis

Margaret studied ballet in Moscow for five years and later was a member of London City Ballet. A reviewer since 1978 for many newspapers and magazines including Dancing Times and Dance Magazine, Margaret is a specialist on Russian Ballet, and has written books on Russian Ballet and Carlos Acosta.