San Francisco Ballet launch their London season at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre this evening, and until September 23 they will be presenting three mixed-bill programs. That’s 10 works over nine performances, featuring works by George Balanchine, Edwaard Liang, Mark Morris, Ashley Page, Christopher Wheeldon, SF Ballet chief Helgi Tomasson, as well as their Choreographer in […]
Lorena Feijoo
José Manuel Carreño and the Feijoo sisters on Dancing with the Stars
As part of Classical Week on America’s Dancing With The Stars, the season’s first “Macy’s Stars of Dance” performance featured three of the most famous ballet dancers in America today, though all three are Cuban. They danced a specially choreographed segment from “Swan Lake.” Lorena and Lorna Feijoo, principles for the San Francisco Ballet and […]
Christopher Wheeldon’s new creation “Number Nine” scores a 10 in San Francisco
Allan Ulrich leads the cheers for Wheeldon’s ballet in the San Francisco Chronicle: Nineteen minutes have rarely passed so quickly. In comparison with Wheeldon’s more meditative, more luxuriously phrased “Ghosts” (on the alternate Ballet program), “Number Nine” discloses no subtext, flies through stage space at high velocity and, in its phrasing, often gives the impression […]
