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Bella Notte: San Francisco Ballet gala
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco — January 19, 2012 Last Thursday night I went to the San Francisco Ballet opening night gala performance. What an entertaining and inspiring evening of dance! I...
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Dancing through a prism
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco — February 17, 2012 On Friday night I saw San Francisco Ballet’s Program 2, which consisted of Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Mark Morris’s world premiere Beaux, and...
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War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco — March 23, 2012 I went to see San Francisco Ballet‘s Program 6 last Friday night: Raymonda Act III (Nureyev), RAkU (Possokhov), and the world premiere of Guide...
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‘Dunas’ and ‘Spinae’
City Hall, San Francisco — April 6, 2012 Sounds like a pair of mythological creatures, no? These are the names of two pieces danced by students of the San Francisco Ballet School trainee program at a...
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Tweeting at the ballet
Sometimes when I watch performances I write down notes in the program during intermissions, but more often than not… I tweet. (Hat tip to Carla Escoda of Ballet to the People and her bite-size...
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‘Masha': A portrait of Maria Kochetkova
San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova is certainly a ballet star, and the Vogue Theatre was packed last week with local balletomanes (as well as several dancers) for a preview of...
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Light and dark: San Francisco Ballet Program 7
War Memorial Opera House — April 21, 2013 Here are my collected tweets from last Sunday’s performance of San Francisco Ballet Program 7, which included Criss-Cross (Helgi Tomasson), Francesca da Rimini...
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Infinite Romance: San Francisco Ballet gala 2015
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco — January 22, 2015 Just a quick recap: last week Thom and I went to San Francisco Ballet’s opening gala, which celebrates Helgi Tomasson’s 30th year as artistic...
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Serenade, RAkU, Lambarena: SF Ballet Program 1
War Memorial Opera House — San Francisco, January 30, 2015 When I go out to watch ballet, my first question of course is… which bow tie to wear? As Serenade was on the program, the clear answer is:...
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Interesting: according to my site stats, someone came to my blog via the search string “length of sf ballet program 1.” Good question! The running time including intermission(s) for San Francisco...
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