sf_herminator Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 San Francisco Ballet gave its annual performance at the Stern Grove Festival on Sunday 7/31. I'll post more later about the performance, but it was a wonderful afternoon. The first part of the performance were two pieces performed by former and current dancers in the trainee program. Hopefully other people can give their views. Stern Grove Festival Matinee Sunday, July 31, 2011, 2:00 PM ANDANTE SOSTENUTO Choreographer: J. Francisco Martinez Composer: Franz Schubert Conductor: Martin West Piano: Natal'ya Feygina Elizabeth Powell^ Francisco Mungamba Lacey Escabar* Trygve Cumpston* Shion Yuasa^ Henry Sidford^ *SF Ballet School Trainee ^SF Ballet Company Apprentice TIMEPIECE Choreographer: Myles Thatcher Lacey Escabar*, Ellen Rose Hummel^, Lauren Parrott*#, Shion Yuasa^, Sean Bennett^, Trygve Cumpston*, Francisco Mungamba, Alexander Reneff-Olson*, Henry Sidford^ *SF Ballet School Trainee ^SF Ballet Company Apprentice # denotes premiere in work INTERMISSION 7 FOR EIGHT Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Conductor: Martin West Piano: Michael McGraw Maria Kochetkova, Ruben Martin Cintas Vanessa Zahorian, Gennadi Nedvigin Dores Andre, Elizabeth Miner, Joan Boada, Jaime Garcia Castilla INTERMISSION SYMPHONY IN C Choreographer: George Balanchine Composer: Georges Bizet Conductor: Martin West Lorena Feijoo, Vitor Luiz Sofiane Sylve, Vito Mazzeo Frances Chung, Isaac Hernandez Nicole Chiapponi, Lonnie Weeks * Denotes premiere in role. Link to comment
Quiggin Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I went back and forth all morning about going – but slippery fog and the long streetcar trip out decided me against it. And "Symphony in C," the most artificial of ballets, in daylight, open to the full green of the nature, the green of golfcourses, "the smell of English lawns". But the casting looked great, with young dancers of the company ... look forward to any comments. Link to comment
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