Stories By Toba Singer
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Presents The Rite of Spring, Beaux and Guide To Strange Places
September 11, 2024At the first sensual strains of a bassoon made to sound like an archaic oboe in...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Offers Scotch Symphony, Within the Golden Hour and From Foreign Lands
September 8, 2024One of the benefits of having enrolled in San Francisco Ballet’s Ballet 101, a six-part course...
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Dance
Dance Review: Onegin, Performed by the San Francisco Ballet
September 5, 2024It is as if this pas de deux was made so that Onegin could teach Tatiana...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Offers Raymonda Act III, Ibsen’s House and Symphonic Dances
August 28, 2024It was a pleasure to see such a splendidly danced and produced Rudolf Nureyev version of...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Presents Criss-Cross, Francesca da Rimini and Symphony in Three Movements
August 26, 2024Vilanoba leads Zahorian in a promenade on bent knee. They exchange coy glances, and one surmises...
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Dance
Don Quixote, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, April 27, 2012
July 20, 2024Let the ballet snobs pound sand in the corrida if they find neither rhyme, reason, nor...
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Dance
An Interview with San Francisco Ballet Soloist Clara Blanco
July 19, 2024But dancing a character both fulfills and exhausts you. After Artifact, I felt dead, but it...
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Dance
Dance Review: Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Triangle of Squinches
July 17, 2024Act I of Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Triangle of Squinches plays out in front of a...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet’s Program 7, an All-Balanchine Affair
July 14, 2024Top honors for the program go to the company’s interpretation of The Four Temperaments, to music...
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Performing Arts
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Presents The Fifth Season, Symphonic Dances and Glass Pieces
July 7, 2024Frances Chung is as resilient as bundled cable. Davit Karapetyan partners her with genteel correctness. They...