Twenty-four dancers in white classical tutus descended the shadowed grotto into Solor’s opium-induced dream, stepping into grand arabesques ever high and in unison, an awesome vision to behold. The epochal Kingdom of the Shades from Act II …
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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet performed three dramatically different works at Zellerbach Hall on Saturday evening. Currently under the interim artistic direction of Alexandra Damiani, the company’s long-time ballet mistress, the New York City based company, with its daring …
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San Francisco Ballet’s latest mixed bill yielded the luscious, enigmatic Ghosts by Christopher Wheeldon, the otherworldly wraiths of La Bayadère‘s Kingdom of the Shades, and a curiously de-feathered Firebird, courtesy of SFB’s resident choreographer Yuri Possokhov. All revivals, though this was the first time they had …
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In January, San Francisco dance lovers had a rare glimpse of Robert Moses performing his own work, in a seven-minute solo entitled The Slow Rise of a Rigid Man. In a tight spotlight on the dark stage, against lyrics by the gruff-voiced David Worm that proclaimed that he …
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John Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is wacky, whimsical and occasionally maddening, yet his depiction of a ballet sci-fi world is so dazzling and absorbing, and his story-telling so enthralling, that it seems almost churlish to pick fault.
The daring score tacks on to Mendelssohn an ominous electronic drone …
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