Category: San Francisco Ballet
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observations 1/12
The choice of Tamara Rojo as San Francisco Ballet's next artistic director makes a lot of artistic sense. Whether it makes cultural and managerial sense remains to be seen. Putting aside the anticipated controversies…
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Balanchine: The City Center Years 11/1 and 11/4
When the Americans’ loudest complaints about Russian ballet dancing are the smiles and the rich operatic bows, you know their asses have been whooped. Apparently, no one should dare not dance Balanchine exactly as…
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Simply stunning
https://d3ss7t324mvief.cloudfront.net/res/2018%20Sleeping%20Beauty%20Background.mp4 and with audio: https://www.facebook.com/sfballet/videos/10155685529236293/ Five years after her startlingly brilliant debut as Princess Aurora in Peter Martins' gorgeous Sleeping Beauty at New York City Ballet, Ana Sophia Scheller will again dance the title…
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Happy World Ballet Day!
http://worldballetday.com/ Australian Ballet Bolshoi Ballet Royal Ballet National Ballet of Canada San Francisco Ballet Let's keep this tradition going strong.
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YAGP Honors Julio Bocca at Lincoln Center 4/14
It Was A Good FridayLiterally. YAGP’s 2017 Tribute to a Dance Legend honored Julio Bocca, the beloved star of ABT for twenty years who is now Artistic Director of Uruguay’s national company SODRE which he has buffed…
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Livestream events upcoming
Per the Wall Street Journal, Lincoln Center will run a livestream all-day event on its Facebook page and its constituents' FB pages next Friday, October 7th. The broadcast called From Sunup to Curtain Down…
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Sarah Lane to guest in SF Ballet’s Nutcracker
What a tremendous opportunity and honor for Sarah who will dance in Helgi Tomasson's charming Nutcracker production on December 22nd at 2PM and on December 23rd at 7PM with the San Francisco Ballet. She…
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Sweeping out 2014
Let’s start with a few final Nutcrackers. Haglund caught yesterday’s NYCB matinee which was the second performance for a crew of newbies. Emilie Gerrity as Sugarplum, Taylor Stanley as Her Cavalier, and Ashley Hod…
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Thanks to the Royal Ballet for organizing
this remarkable collaborative event!World Ballet Day coming at you in a few hours
Beginning tonight at 7PM Pacific Daylight Time U.S. (10PM Eastern Daylight Time U.S.), the San Francisco Ballet will begin broadcasting the whole 20 hour shebang on its YouTube channel. What a terrific thing to…
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observations 1/26
Oh my goodness. Oh oh oh. If you did not catch Sterling Hyltin in last night’s Rubies at New York City Ballet, you missed another one of NYCB’s raise-the-bar performances. Holy mosquito legs, Batman.…
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San Francisco Ballet 10/24
Cinderella – All dressed up with somewhere
to go, but. . .. . . not enough horsepower pulling the old carriage to get there. To be perfectly frank and utterly truthful – yes, rare as that is – whenever Haglund comes face-to-face with a brand…
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SF Ballet – Suite en Blanc pure pleasure 10/20
When a ballet performance leaves you walking out of the theater feeling more happy, energized, and appreciative of life than when you walked in, you know that it's been money well spent. But after…
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San Francisco Ballet – 10/16 & 10/17
America's oldest ballet company has some pretty springy legs. San Francisco Ballet's first two performances of its two-week visit to Lincoln Center included seven works never before seen in New York. That's not to…
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observations 9/22
Fall For Dance opens at NY City Center on Wednesday. There is much to look forward to during the ten day festival which this year marks its tenth anniversary. On September 30th and October…
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observations 7/24
Maria Riccetto will dance Odette/Odile in four performances in a span of two weeks – including her career debut on opening night – when Julio Bocca's Ballet Nacional del Sodre premieres its Swan Lake…