ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by [January's] 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance...." The San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival received seven nominations apiece....
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
"Chinese ballet aficionados like the classics: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty are all routinely performed here." But they're "also used to uniformity, in the way their dancers look, dress and move." So when the company gave a mixed program, including modern ballets, for its first performance in Shanghai, viewers weren't sure what to make of it at first."...
oboeinsight (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
… on my way home from the opera dress rehearsal I heard my first ad for The Nutcracker. (For San Francisco Ballet.) I can’t tell you how sad that made me. It’s still September … right?
The Ambassador roams high and low (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
The coming week marks the end of what has been a listless summer. Wednesday night is the opening gala of the San Francisco Symphony , which I'll be attending for the first time courtesy of a kindly extended invitation. Lang Lang will perform Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto and MTT has programmed waltzes by Liszt, Ravel and Rodgers to round out the evening. I've only seen Lang Lang once before and I...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
"Leading the country's third-largest ballet company requires serious backup. Now instead of one right-hand man, San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson has two." Bruce Sansom and Ricardo Bustamante, "both 46, have just stepped into the 'ballet master and assistant to the artistic director' position vacated when Ashley Wheater became artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The company, which needs to raise $750,000 by the end of this month to avoid the risk of closure, has put together a major benefit, with top dancers from the likes of New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet, in record time - and with virtually zero in out-of-pocket costs. "Jon Ulsh (OBT's executive director) woke up one morning with the idea… and the next morning...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/13/2009
"Her longstanding partner fell to his knees in devoted homage before Tina LeBlanc during the extended, celebratory curtain calls, and one could sense the entire audience collectively joining in that spirit, as San Francisco Ballet said farewell to this most distinctive, exuberantly American ballerina Saturday night."...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/03/2009
"Among the larger companies, New York City Ballet has let 11 dancers go, Miami City Ballet has laid off seven dancers in addition to getting rid of live music, and San Francisco Ballet has laid off six dancers. American Ballet Theatre is not laying off dancers; instead, its dancers union agreed to substantial contract concessions."...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
"Ballet San Jose on Thursday announced the appointment of Stephanie Ziesel as its new executive director. Ziesel currently serves as associate director of development at San Francisco Ballet, where she has worked for nearly seven years."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Although I can revisit images from San Francisco Ballet’s performances of George Balanchine’s three-part “Jewels,” almost none of them exert any urgency in the mind.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
San Francisco Ballet star Lorena Feijoo was trained at the National Ballet of Cuba under the legendary Alonso, from whom she separated on less-than-amicable terms. "Now here was Feijoo, 38, and at the invitation of the young Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami, about to appropriate her former mentor's Carmen in front of what essentially was a Havana audience, made up mostly of the more-recently arrived."...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
Two women shared the individual performance honors at San Francisco's Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (the "Izzies") this week. One was San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova; the other was Circo Zero aerialist Emily Leap. Keith Hennessy, Circo's director, said this was probably the first time the award had gone "to a trapeze artist who did a three-man-high with two men standing...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/16/2009
Next to Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, has anyone other than Mark Morris played a more obvious role in making San Francisco Ballet the company it is today? Since 1994, he's given the Ballet seven commissioned works - more than any other ballet company. And...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
There are ballets that are good for the box office, and then there are ballets that are good for the soul. Two of the latter opened at the San Francisco Ballet on Thursday night, one tragic and one comic, both as richly acted as they are danced. Program 4...
Betty's List (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
San Francisco Ballet - A Great Nite Out - Special Offer Available Now! - 3/13 Note from Betty: We are very proud to once again this year bring you information about the exciting Nite Out events of the wonderful and amazing San Francisco Ballet. In addition to the pre-performance "Meet the Artist" interviews, you will also enjoy exclusive Nite Out cocktail receptions in the Dress Circle Lobby....
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