Tuesday, March 9

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A review of San Francisco Ballet's new online mixed bill by Janice Berman for San Francisco Classical Voice.

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There’s an old saying, “Don’t take any wooden dimes.” If that sounds familiar, don’t blame the land down under for upping the ante. Here, it’s nickels, and there, it’s been adjusted for inflation. Same meaning — don’t trust in common currency. Don’t believe everything you hear. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

And so it goes with Wooden Dimes, the new film by choreographer Danielle Rowe, the premiere on the third program of the San Francisco Ballet’s all-virtual season, available for viewing until March 24 through the Ballet’s website.

 

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A review of Pacific Northwest Ballet's "The Intermission Project" by Sondra Forsyth for Broadway World.

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The work has nine short segments making up three Acts that you can view as often as you like and in any order, or you may choose to watch the entire 35 minutes in one sitting. The settings are various locations ranging from backstage to a boat dock in Washington State with the dancers sometimes in dance clothes and pointe shoes and at others in street clothes and sneakers, devoid of stage makeup. The videography and editing, by Suddarth himself, are superb.

 

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A review of San Francisco Ballet by Heather Desaulniers for DanceTabs.

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Swimmer was not the only source of nostalgia and circumstance on program 3. Danielle Rowe’s world premiere Wooden Dimes championed both. The highly anticipated film takes its audience back to the 1920s and introduces a chorus dancer (Sarah Van Patten) who has been singled out from the line as the next potential star. As Dimes progresses, duets, group dances and fantasy sequences demonstrate how that opportunity affects her, her marriage and her work environment. What is the cost of stardom?