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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Harris Theater for Music and Dance celebrated the opening night of their fifth anniversary season to great fanfare last week, hosting a gala on Thursday night in Millennium Park to kick off their week-long engagement with the San Francisco Ballet while raising nearly $1.4 million to benefit the theater . We absolutely love the Harris Theater. It’s a beautiful venue in a great location, and the 2008/2009...
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Civic Center (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
My favorite box-office person in the Civic Center, Meredith Clark (above), has set up shop in the lobby of Davies Symphony Hall and it was a joy as usual to see her on Sunday afternoon. It's too bad the San Francisco Ballet, where she worked for 17 years, has decided that the internet should be the only way people get tickets rather than providing a fully staffed box office. (Note to Ballet: It doesn't...
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Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
NEW YORK, NY (PRNewswire) — In fall 2008, as part of its 75th Anniversary Celebration, San Francisco Ballet — America’s oldest professional ballet company — will embark on a four-city national tour with 30 performances total. Yuan Yuan Tan and Tiit Helimets in Tomasson’s The Fifth Season (PRNewsFoto/San Francisco Ballet (c) Erik Tomasson) The Company’s American [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
If you'd like reassurance that worthy talent is on occasion rewarded with generous patronage, consider Yuri Zhukov. For the last five years, the former Kirov and San Francisco Ballet dancer's choreographic efforts have premiered mostly at the student...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The two recipients of this year’s Jerome Robbins Award for excellence in dance, prizes that are worth $100,000 each, will be the choreographer Twyla Tharp and the San Francisco Ballet.
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Art's Place (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
(San Francisco Ballet in the 21st century, advertised on sleek MUNI buses.) I recently found these thoughts about San Francisco Ballet's New Works Festival in my drafts folder - from all the way back in May! I brushed it up and decided to finally post it, for even though the New Works Festival has long gone, many of the ballets will be touring the country when SF Ballet visits Chicago, New York, Washington...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
San Francisco Ballet -- America's Oldest Professional Ballet Company --
Embarks on a Four-city American Tour as Part of Its Year-long 75th
Anniversary Celebration
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In fall 2008, as part
of its 75th Anniversary Celebration, San Francisco Ballet - America's
oldest professional ballet company - will embark on a four-city national
tour with 30 performances...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Tan Yuanyuan announced Monday she has accepted a guest position in Hong Kong, saying she wants to give back to her country.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
An astonishing thing happens every year during the class demonstrations that begin the San Francisco Ballet School Student Showcase. As the tentative tendus of tottering 8-year-olds cede the stage to testing passés from the bigger girls and double pirouettes...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Friday night at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts, I ended up sitting next to a mother and her 10-year-old girl. The little girl liked ballet, and the mother regularly bought tickets for Diablo Ballet at her daughter's urging. San Francisco Ballet...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
"The company didn't envision its ambitious New Works Festival, the centerpiece of the San Francisco Ballet's 75th-anniversary season, as a microcosm of what's wrong with the ballet world. But the fact that this large outlay of money, time and talent -- unprecedented in its scope -- produced more mediocrity than revelation points to a big problem for ballet. Self-renewal is not its strong suit."...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Toe shoes are a major budget expense for ballet companies. The San Francisco Ballet provides 120 pairs of pointe shoes for each of its 40 female dancers. The American Ballet Theatre in New York City sets aside $350,000 for pointe shoes per season, about $7,500 per ballerina....
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
San Francisco Ballet announces its 76th season today, a lineup including a new "Swan Lake," works by Mark Morris and a reprise of six dances featured in this year's New Works Festival.
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Google VP Marissa Mayer attended the San Francisco Ballet's New Work's Festival on Friday and she brought along all her favorite friends. These included Mayer's manfriend, real-estate fund manager... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
