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April 30, 2016

SF Ballet’s Onegin

Why is it that shy, bookish girls always fall for self-absorbed and vain men? So the sweet Tatiana falls for the arrogant Onegin, leading to disaster. Pushkin’s classic story in verse has been the basis of opera and ballet, plays and films. As well as being translated...

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April 16, 2016

Oakland Ballet’s 2016 Season

The voice has a body ... The garden is an often-used motif in the songs of the medieval German visionary and saint, Hildegard von Bingen. So it is no wonder that “Divining”, which had...

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March 19, 2016

Trajal Harrell at Cal Performances

At the beginning of the performance the choreographer Trajal Harrell announces that what will be presented is not The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the...

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March 15, 2016

San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5 opens

The incredible lightness of ballet San Francisco Ballet opened its Program 5 on Wednesday with two repertory pieces: Jerome Robbins’ lovely Dances at a Gathering and Yuri Possokhov’s Swimmer. Pieces...

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February 20, 2016

San Francisco Ballet’s “Swan Lake”

Mythic Swan Lake As part of its program of outreach San Francisco Ballet presented a weekend-long symposium along with the opening of its current production of Swan Lake this past weekend. There were...

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January 24, 2016

San Francisco Ballet’s Program 1

San Francisco Ballet opens the season fresh and snappy On Sunday SF Ballet opened its 2016 season with three short pieces by three of its favorite choreographers – Helgi Tomasson, Yuri Possokhov and...

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