Guest ilive2danz Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Does anybody know if the SF ballet is going to be having any ballets in the month of july??? Thanx Link to comment
Francis Timlin Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Yes -- the annual performance at Stern Grove will be held on Sunday, July 27, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. [stern Grove is an outdoor venue in the Sunset District of San Francisco; admission is free, but crowds are enormous. Arrive well before noon to stake out territory.] The program will be Allegro Brillante, Waltz Project (Peter Martins) and Makarova's staging of Paquita. Link to comment
Guest ilive2danz Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 So it's ballet outdoors??? Link to comment
Francis Timlin Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Yes. If you are in The City that weekend, I highly recommend it. Link to comment
Guest ilive2danz Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Briefly, what is it about? Link to comment
Francis Timlin Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 The program is a triple bill -- comprised of three different ballets from San Francisco Ballet's repertoire. The opener is Allegro Brillante, a 1956 work by George Balanchine set to Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3. There is no plot; the work is brief (13 minutes). The middle work, Waltz Project, was premiered by SFB earlier this season. Choreographed by Peter Martins, it is a collection of 13 different waltzes by as many different composers. The final work on the program is Paquita, a surviving fragment of an otherwise lost work originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and staged for this production by Natalia Makarova. Does this information help? Link to comment
Guest ilive2danz Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Yes, that helped a lot. Im going to California on the 24 so I'm praying I can go. Do you think if I typed in Stern Grove into a directory I would get good directions? P.S sorry for bothering you. Link to comment
Leigh Witchel Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 We love google. I'm not a San Franciscan, but these look like the correct directions. http://www.thedragonscoils.com/schedule/stern.html And by the way, you WILL post about what you saw? Right? ;) Link to comment
lillianna Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Stern Grove is right off 19th Avenue in the Sunset District of San Francisco. It is easily accessible on the Muni bus line. A ride on the Muni is only 35 cents for people under 18 and $1.00 for those over 17. My daughter and I are planning to attend and really looking forward to it. Bring something to sit on, it is just a field from my understanding. There are a few chairs, but they fill up hours ahead of time and are usually reserved for the handicapped or senior citizens according to my daughter who has been there before for a SFB performance. Link to comment
Francis Timlin Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Here is a link to the Stern Grove website: http://www.sterngrove.org Note that there is a pre-performance lecture at 12:00 noon on performance day (July 27). Link to comment
Alexandra Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Thanks for this information, Francis -- it's much appreciated. And now that we know that at least two, if not three, people will be seeing this, I second Leigh's plea -- PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOU SAW AND WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT IT Thanks! Link to comment
Guest ilive2danz Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Thanks everyone for all the help. I'm really excited to go now and I will be sure to post what I saw but I'm sure it's going to be great! Thanks again, Kristina;) Link to comment
dirac Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Let me reiterate Francis' excellent point about arriving early. It can get very hairy. I won't be one of the people seeing it -- it's just a bit much for me nowadays. Maybe next year I'll have more stamina. Link to comment
Guest ilive2danz Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Hello everyone, I went to the Stern Grove Festival this summer and it was great! The only problem was we arrived a little late and we wound up sitting up on the hill covered in dirt. Still, I'm glad that I got to go. It was really cold that day so the dancers wern't able to perform Paquita(I think), I was really looking foward to because the costumes were so pretty. Well next time we're going to try to reserve a table because I didn't really enjoy sitting in the dirt.( If you were there I was one of the people slipping down the hill with sandals on!) Link to comment
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