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SF Ballet's Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

By Jaime Robles, 26 April 2018
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Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 24 April 2018
Programme
Bespoke (Stanton Welch)
Your Flesh shall be a Great Poem (Trey McIntyre)
Guernica (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)
Performers
San Francisco Ballet
Benjamin Freemantle, Dancer
Jaime Garcia Castilla, Dancer
Lonnie Weeks, Dancer
Sasha De Sola, Dancer
Jennifer Stahl, Dancer
Isabella DeVivo, Dancer
Steven Morse, Dancer
Esteban Hernandez, Dancer
Alexandre Cagnat, Dancer
Dores André, Dancer
Vitor Luiz, Dancer
Julia Rowe, Dancer
Myles Thatcher, Choreography
Angelo Greco, Dancer
Carlo Di Lanno, Dancer
Mathilde Froustey, Dancer
Frances Chung, 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.