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 […]
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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 […]
San Francisco Ballet’s The Little Mermaid to be recorded in May
San Francisco Ballet has announced that it will record Hamburg Ballet Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid live, during two performances at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House (May 3 and May 5, 2011). It will be filmed in high definition using eight cameras, and both performances will be edited […]
