Nutcracker
Sometimes, a gift isn’t just a gift. It’s a key to a new world. A young heroine. A Nutcracker-turned-prince. The small but mighty army of mice. The beautiful conclusion of a sugar plum celebration. It’s a story so good, it…
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San Francisco Ballet
Snowblind
In her first work for San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet), British choreographer Cathy Marston zeroes in on the heart of Edith Wharton’s 1911 novella Ethan Frome. Her ballet, Snowblind, tells a story of repression, love, desperation, and dependence—the forces underlying…
The Little Mermaid
John Neumeier‘s multi-cultural fantastical rendition of Han’s Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid has returned in a beautiful production at the San Francisco Ballet in the War Memorial Opera House. Created in 2005 for the Royal Danish Ballet and revised in…
Björk Ballet
There might be no better combination of artists than choreographer Arthur Pita and Icelandic music superstar Björk. If you’ve never seen a ballet rave – and who has? – get ready. Pita delivers that and more with his second piece…
Bound To
The curtain rises on Christopher Wheeldon‘s new ballet, Bound To©, to reveal the dancers mesmerized by their cellphones. For viewers the moment of recognition is instantaneous—we are bound to technology. In this ballet, Wheeldon comments on what happens to us…
Anima Animus
ANIMA ANIMUS is physically emotional virtuosity combined to make something human. In making this ballet, Dawson found himself responding to the idea of opposition – light and dark, humanity and architecture, individual and group – but wanted to explore the…