Best of You: Part Deux
June 24, 2010 · Posted by The Ballet Bag ·
In addition to boosting their presence on social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, leading ballet companies have also taken to blogging regularly. Company blogs have radically changed the face of communication within the arts sector. Before them organisations were more dependent on regular media/art pages to pick up on their stories but now they publish their own content, sharing news and features directly with audiences and developing their own “internet voices”.
Hoping to recruit new ballet goers and engage the public, official company blogs focus on what happens behind ballet curtains. Some also leverage off their insider knowledge to ...
Review: 2010 San Francisco Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet
May 3, 2010 · Posted by Saturday Matinee ·
Sarah Van Patten and Pierre-François Vilanoba in Tomasson's Romeo & Juliet. © Erik Tomasson
Saturday night was the opening night of San Francisco Ballet’s last program of the year, Helgi Tomasson’s Romeo and Juiet. It’s a beautiful production of a classic love story, full of sumptuous details in the sets and costumes by Jens-jacob Worsaae and lighting by Thomas R. Skelton. In a story that’s freely moved around to different locales or to no location at all, San Francisco Ballet’s production reminded us of its original setting in Verona, Italy. The Capulets party in a setting that looks like the Sistine ...
Review: 2010 San Francisco Ballet’s Program 6
April 26, 2010 · Posted by Saturday Matinee ·
Tomasson’s Haffner Symphony
Renato Zanella’s Underskin
Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons
Lorena Feijoo and Pascal Molat in Zanella's Underskin. © Erik Tomasson
San Francisco Ballet’s Program 6 was an important one for the company, despite looking like the calm program before the storm before its grand finale of Tomasson’s Romeo and Juliet that will close out the season. It included yet another world premiere built on the company by choreographer Renato Zanella – would it be appropriate to call him up and coming? His work is mainly been Europe-centered with occasional forays elsewhere, and his name is new to my ears. It also reprised a ...
San Francisco Ballet’s 2010-2011 Repertory Season
April 21, 2010 · Posted by Saturday Matinee ·
Lorena Feijoo and Pascal Molat in Forsythe's Artifact Suite. © Erik Tomasson
Below is the season announcement for San Francisco Ballet’s 2011 season. Pieces to look out for – Giselle, McGregor’s Chroma to the music of White Stripes, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite, and Balanchine’s Coppelia, a co-produciton with Pacific Northwest Ballet, and world premieres by Possohkov and Wheeldon.
What are you looking forward to?
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ANNOUNCES 2011 REPERTORY SEASON
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE NEW CO-PRODUCTION & SF BALLET PREMIERE
OF GEORGE BALANCHINE’S COPPÉLIA; WORLD PREMIERES BY POSSOKHOV & WHEELDON; PLUS THE RETURN OFGISELLE & THE LITTLE MERMAID
SF Ballet Honors 100th Anniversary of Fokine’s Petrouchka
With an Encore Presentation
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Review: 2010 San Francisco Ballet’s Program 7
April 16, 2010 · Posted by Saturday Matinee ·
Damian Smith and Katita Waldo in Wheeldon's Rush. © Erik Tomasson
Program 7 at the San Francisco Ballet was all about the pretty. After the alien exoticism of the Little Mermaid, this program was a welcome breath of fresh air to San Francisco audiences eager to watch what San Francisco Ballet does best. Two out of the three pieces in Program 7 were created for the SF Ballet, including a world premiere of Possohkov’s Classical Symphony. There’s nothing like the sense of organic flow that comes from a piece built around the strengths of the company. The adoring audience seemed to ...
Review: 2010 San Francisco Ballet’s The Little Mermaid
March 30, 2010 · Posted by Saturday Matinee ·
Yuan Yuan Tan in Neumeier's The Little Mermaid. © Erik Tomasson
San Francisco Ballet presented the U.S. premiere of John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid starting last weekend. Largely marketed as an adult story not intended for children, this production was an abstract psychodrama using the familiar tale of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid as a launching point. Although closer to the original Andersen tale than the more ubiquitous Disney version, the Andersen tale still serves as a rather distant inspiration, as the emotions of unrequited love and character development are more salient features than storytelling plot points. The strangely hypnotic ...
DancePlug Dish Episode 18
March 25, 2010 · Posted by DancePlug's blog ·
The DancePlug Dish, your weekly newsflash channel on all things dance. This week: Mia Michael gets her own TV show, The Little Mermaid is not a children story, and check out the human alphabet.view the full episodeThe DancePlug Team
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Preview: John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid with the San Francisco Ballet
March 22, 2010 · Posted by Saturday Matinee ·
San Francisco Ballet’s The Little Mermaid arrived with a bang this past weekend. Choreographed by John Neumeier with music by Lera Auerbach, this production promises to be a visual feast of dramatic storytelling. This story is based more on the original Hans Christian Andersen story, rather than the more child-friendly Disney version. In an interview with the SF Chronicle, John Neumeier responds to a question regarding dance and drama:
Because I don’t think dance is intellectual. It’s more related to the experience of dreams than actuality. I believe you don’t understand a ballet; you have an experience of it.
I’m not sure ...
10 Questions With…Luke Willis
March 22, 2010 · Posted by 4dancers ·
This week we have 10 questions with Luke Willis of San Francisco Ballet….enjoy!
Please tell me your name and your current job title.
Luke Willis, San Francisco Ballet, Corps de Ballet
1. How did you get into ballet and what made you decide to do it for a living?
Well I’ve always danced. I remember when I was a kid my dad was always very proud because I could do any dance moves that the fly girls did when we all watched in living color together. I used to create shows with my little brother and I ended up going to an arts high ...
Spring is here! New life, new rules.
March 20, 2010 · Posted by You Dance Funny, So Does Me ·
How better to celebrate my 100th post than on the vernal equinox? I didn’t plan it this way, and although I don’t have any specific vernal equinox traditions it is a most meaningful day to me. I love the spring…it’s my favorite season and it’s a time where there we’re surrounded by reminders of renewal, youth, greenery and freshness. Although we cannot reverse the aging process, spring does inspire opportunities to reinvent thyself. Perhaps, even more so than New Year’s, when it’s still dreary and cold and really the only thing that tells us it is indeed a new year ...
