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[Helene]

San Francisco Ballet opens on Friday (14 September) at Sadler's Wells.  I hope our London Ballet Alerters will report back on this thread:

SFB London Tour -- September 2012

Thanks to a heads up from Bruce Marriott's DanceTabs short interview with Helgi Tomasson, Tomasson and Mark Morris will be interviewed for about 20 minutes on the two-hour "In Tune" show on BBC Radio Three tomorrow, 12 September, at 4:30pm London time, or 11am EDT/8am PDT, and the show will appear in the archives in about a week.  (There's a "Listen" link in the top right of the Radio Three page.)

[Helene]

They are there!

https://www.facebook...23251292&type=1

[Paul Parish]

Thanks, Helene. I'm very curious how Londoners will respond to "Beaux," and to the company as a whole. Thanks for word of the intterviews. When you say they are there, do you mean the interviews are up on the site or that the dancers are in london?

[Helene]

The dancers are in London -- that was a photo of Tan in front of an ad in the Tube.

[Quiggin]

There's also an interview with Helgi Tomasson in the Financial Times. It focuses on San Francisco Ballet being a leading model of a post-Balanchine company in the States. Tomasson says that the curatorial choices that Robert Joffrey made were a great influence on him.

Steps in the right direction:

http://www.ft.com/in...l#axzz26I1u1enq

[lion]

The all-embracing San Francisco Ballet bring their eclecticism and passion to London

http://gramilano.com...n/#.UFStOHZ9mkI

[lion]

San Francisco Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Sepember 2012.
Programme A:
Divertimento No. 15 (Mozart) - Balanchine
Symphonic Dances (Rachmaniov) - Edwaard Liang
Number Nine (Torke) - Christopher Wheeldon

[lion]

San Francisco Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre

Programme B:
Trio (Tchaikovsky) Helgi Tomasson
Ghosts (Kip Winger) - Christopher Wheeldon
Guide to Strange Places (John Adams) - Ashley Page

[Helene]

Marc Haegeman is in the house and has begun to publish photos of SFB's London visit to Facebook:

https://www.facebook...20429554&type=3

[lion]

San Francisco Ballet – Programme A: Balanchine, Liang, Wheeldon – London

By Jann Parry on September 17, 2012 in Reviews
http://www.dancetabs...heeldon-london/

[lion]

Brilliant Balanchine Divertimento from San Francisco Ballet

September 17, 2012
http://www.seenandhe...ancisco-ballet/

[lion]

For ballet lovers only

All photographs © 2012 by Marc Haegeman.

The San Francisco Ballet in London, 14-23 September 201
http://www.for-balle...allet-2012.html