alison Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Just catching up with the Links page, and it seems that a lot of change is afoot at SFB: http://www.sfchronicle.com/performance/article/Feijoo-taking-her-final-steps-at-SF-Ballet-11065862.php "Feijoo arrived here 18 years ago, and her retirement is yet another indication that the San Francisco Ballet is evolving rather dramatically these days. Consider that Vanessa Zahorian and husband Davit Karapetyan are also leaving this spring, while at least a half-dozen other principals and soloists, for various reasons, are rumored to be packing their bags. Last year’s retirement of three stellar males — Joan Boada, Pascal Molat, Gennadi Nedvigin — has left a gap." I've not kept up that well with SFB in recent years, but it does seem rather sad that so many of the dancers whose names I recognise will be - or have already - gone from the roster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 On 13/04/2017 at 20:18, alison said: "Consider that Vanessa Zahorian and husband Davit Karapetyan are also leaving this spring," http://www.sfchronicle.com/performance/article/SF-Ballet-s-royal-couple-retire-with-a-magical-11076912.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) I remember that when Helgi Tomasson arrived at San Franciso in the mid-eighties, he completely remade the company from the ground up, pretty much turning it into a neoclassical company from something that had been a lot more showy and based on story ballets under Michael Smuin. There was quite a bit of bad feeling about the change at the top, and several dancers left or were purged. Over the next decade or so, Tomasson brought in a lot of young dancers and based the repertoire on Balanchine and Forsythe, which was really different from how it had been previously. Maybe what we're seeing now is the retirement of a generation of dancers who arrived there as youngsters during the years of the changeover in the 1990s. Edited April 18, 2017 by Melody 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) This tends to happen though in any company when you have a cluster of dancers who are moving towards retirement around the same time. It happened a few years ago with BRB. (Posting at the same time as Melody) Edited April 18, 2017 by Jan McNulty Added final sentence 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betterankles Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 There are many beautiful young dancers at SF Ballet! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 From today's Links: https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-ballet/a-ballet-couples-loving-swan-song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 SFB has put online the video shown at Lorena Feijoo's farewell earlier this week it shows her virtuousity but doesn't really bring out the musicality and stage presence which made me a life-time fan within 10 seconds of the first time I saw her, dancing Balanchine's Tchaikowsky pas de deux at the gala that opened SFB's first Sadler's Wells season. She had a grown-up glamour and authority which made me think of the ballerinas of the Ballets Russe era, and of my great regrets is that I didn't see more of her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 A year on - and again courtesy of the Links page - another principal is leaving: https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Principal-dancer-Maria-Kochetkova-to-leave-S-F-12838330.php https://www.pointemagazine.com/maria-kochetkova-to-leave-san-francisco-ballet-2560654007.html She doesn't know where she's going yet, apparently, but I'm guessing she won't be severing ties with ABT. Wherever she goes, I wish her all the best. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assoluta Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 9 hours ago, alison said: A year on - and again courtesy of the Links page - another principal is leaving: https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Principal-dancer-Maria-Kochetkova-to-leave-S-F-12838330.php https://www.pointemagazine.com/maria-kochetkova-to-leave-san-francisco-ballet-2560654007.html She doesn't know where she's going yet, apparently, but I'm guessing she won't be severing ties with ABT. Wherever she goes, I wish her all the best. To me it seems that it is rather the Pointe magazine editor who doesn't know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 No one knows, so far she's not telling. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 18 minutes ago, MAB said: No one knows, so far she's not telling. .............. because, no doubt, the company she will be joining isn't ready to make its announcement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 maybe she won't be joining a company, perhaps she's just going to freelance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromthebalcony Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 20 hours ago, alison said: A year on - and again courtesy of the Links page - another principal is leaving: https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Principal-dancer-Maria-Kochetkova-to-leave-S-F-12838330.php https://www.pointemagazine.com/maria-kochetkova-to-leave-san-francisco-ballet-2560654007.html She doesn't know where she's going yet, apparently, but I'm guessing she won't be severing ties with ABT. Wherever she goes, I wish her all the best. She is not slated to dance at ABT for the Met season. I would imagine if she would be staying with ABT, she would at least be doing several shows. Speculation on the ballet boards over here is that she will go with Daniil Simkin to Berlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assoluta Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 9 hours ago, capybara said: .............. because, no doubt, the company she will be joining isn't ready to make its announcement. .............. or the company she will be joining isn't in habit of making public announcements of this kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I think that Staatsballett Berlin, ABT and Simkin himself announced his moving to Berlin on the very same day. So why should the Berlin company keep Kochetkova a secret now? Berlin also has Iana Salenko who is tiny and a perfect partner for Simkin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissBalletFan Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, assoluta said: .............. or the company she will be joining isn't in habit of making public announcements of this kind. To me it seems like assoluta knows....and is keeping us guessing.... no clues??? Edited April 18, 2018 by SwissBalletFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 11 hours ago, assoluta said: .............. or the company she will be joining isn't in habit of making public announcements of this kind. A company doesn't announce it's joiners, especially such a high profile dancer as Maria Kotchetkova? That's a new one on me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromthebalcony Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 My guess would be that when they announced Simkin, he had obviously already told ABT/Kevin his plans. If Masha is going to Berlin, but was not ready to tell SFB/Helgi that she was leaving. When leaving a company, many dancers wait until contracts are released and then tell their director they will not be signing their contract/returning the following season. I know that promotion announcements were just made at SFB and contracts were recently released. Usually, they give dancers a few weeks to return them. So, perhaps Masha just waited until contracts were due to make her departure known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Big companies normally synchronize their press releases about dancers who change from one company to the other, they publish them on the same day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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