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Arthur Pita’s Salome for San Francisco Ballet is both sexy and sinister

By Terez Rose, 13 March 2017
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“an evening of dance that stretched out from the sinister to the sublime”
Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 9 March 2017
Programme
Fusion (Val Caniparoli, Myles Thatcher, Yuri Possokhov)
Salomé (Arthur Pita)
Fearful Symmetries (Liam Scarlett)
Performers
San Francisco Ballet
Frances Chung, Dancer
Dores André, Dancer
Anita Paciotti, Dancer
Diego Cruz, Dancer
Steven Morse, Dancer
Lonnie Weeks, Dancer
Vitor Luiz, Dancer
Joseph Walsh, Dancer
Jennifer Stahl, Dancer
Luke Ingham, 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.