SF Ballet’s Unbound dances on

The second program of San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound: A Festival of New Work presented work by choreographers Myles Thatcher, Cathy Marston and David Dawson. Marston and Dawson trained at the Royal Ballet, and Thatcher was trained at SF Ballet, where he currently dances with the company while developing his choreographic skills. Thatcher’s Otherness opened the evening, tackling the difficult question of how social roles affect and distort an individual’s identity, narrowing...

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San Francisco Ballet’s reawakening of “The Sleeping Beauty”

San Francisco Ballet opened its season last week with performances of the classical masterpiece of Imperial Russian ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. The company, showcasing many of its young principal dancers during the run, which continues to February 7, showed that this quintessential classical ballet still ignites the imagination, presenting a soul-lifting mix of charm and grandeur. The ballet was choreographed by Marius Petipa to Tchaikovsky’s score in 1890, and SF Ballet’s...

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