Month: April 2018
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San Francisco Ballet wraps up ‘Unbound: A Festival of New Works’
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Bringing to an end San Francisco Ballet’s amazingly innovative festival of contemporary works are choreographers Edwaard Liang, Dwight Rhoden and Arthur Pita, with a program of three works written specifically for Unbound. Taipei-born Edwaard Liang grew up in Marin, and quite obviously has a great affinity for San Francisco Ballet. He says that having watched…
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San Francisco Ballet’s Festival of New Works – creativity given free rein
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This third program of San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound festival features works by Stanton Welch, Trey McIntyre and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa – who have taken inspiration for their creations from an eclectic range of sources. Stanton Welch has links with San Francisco Ballet which go back a few years, for – following his basic training in…
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Three more world premieres from San Francisco Ballet’s ‘Unbound’ festival
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San Francisco Ballet swings into the second program of its Unbound festival with three more very individual world premieres, by three very different choreographers – the company’s own Myles Thatcher, and two British choreographers, Cathy Marston and David Dawson Myles Thatcher, a member of the company’s corps de ballet, has had a fascination for choreography…
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San Francisco Ballet presents Unbound: A Festival of New Works
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Never a company to be left behind when descriptives like “entrepreneurial” and “enterprising” are being used, San Francisco Ballet embarks on a completely new initiative this week – 12 new ballets, created by 12 contemporary choreographers, specifically for the company, in a program entitled Unbound: A Festival of New Works. This celebration of contemporary choreography…
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San Francisco Symphony plays Debussy & Ravel with Tortelier & Graham
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The San Francisco Symphony celebrates the musical heritage of France this week, paying homage to two of the country’s finest 20th century composers – Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. In a program led by French conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, the guest soloist is mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performing Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade, and the program also…
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Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet celebrates 35th Anniversary
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Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet celebrates it 35th Anniversary this year, with a range of highly creative and unusual presentations including a World Premiere in collaboration with tabla master Zakir Hussain, the creation of a new work for San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival with a score by jazz composer Jason Moran, an exhibition of photographs by…