Lynette H Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 San Francisco Ballet in Stanton Welch's Bespoke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliewise Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere but San Francisco Ballet are currently uploading a video each week - this week it's Anima Animus choreographed by David Dawson with music by Ezio Bosso - well worth watching, I think it's absolutely sublime (for me it was the highlight of their visit to London last year). https://www.sfballet.org/sf-ballet-home/ The ballet changes on Fridays (overnight UK time). The filming is superb (I think because the recordings are for the archives) - the camera only zooms in and out depending on how many dancers are on stage and the shot is always full length - some other directors could take note! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Thanks, charliewise. If they're doing this regularly, I may convert this into a separate thread which we can keep updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janite Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 20 hours ago, charliewise said: Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere but San Francisco Ballet are currently uploading a video each week - this week it's Anima Animus choreographed by David Dawson with music by Ezio Bosso - well worth watching, I think it's absolutely sublime (for me it was the highlight of their visit to London last year). https://www.sfballet.org/sf-ballet-home/ Thank you charliewise I have had a hard week, as I am sure many others have, and this was just what I needed. My donation is winging it's way to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninamargaret Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Have just watched this and a real treat it was! Hope there's more from them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I thoroughly enjoyed this. San Francisco Ballet and NY Theatre Ballet seem to be the only USA companies streaming films of complete ballets during this period...rather than little rehearsal snippets or exercises/classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I thought this was just gorgeous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Another item from SFB's Unbound Festival (this one not seen in the SFB programme at the Wells) - Trey McIntyre's Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Another SFB Unbound Festival ballet - also you can see an interview about it with the choreographer (Edwaard Liang) here. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 San Francisco Ballet's Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by Helgi Tomasson. Mathilde Froustey as Juliet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 17 hours ago, Naomi M said: San Francisco Ballet's Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by Helgi Tomasson. Mathilde Froustey as Juliet. And that's in addition to the cinema broadcast with Maria Kochetkova. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaC Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Well worth watching the San Francisco streaming. Mathilde Froustey is wonderful as Juliet, her dancing is musical and very expressive, her acting utterly convincing. She was one of my favourite dancers at Paris, I was disappointed when she got permission to move for a period to San Francisco and even more when she later decided not to return to Paris;, but she hadn't been promoted to Etoile and the rep at SFB is fantastic so who can blame her. Helgi Tomasson's production is fairly similar to other versions, but gives the nurse a slightly bigger role. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
now voyager Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, SheilaC said: Well worth watching the San Francisco streaming. Mathilde Froustey is wonderful as Juliet, her dancing is musical and very expressive, her acting utterly convincing. She was one of my favourite dancers at Paris, I was disappointed when she got permission to move for a period to San Francisco and even more when she later decided not to return to Paris;, but she hadn't been promoted to Etoile and the rep at SFB is fantastic so who can blame her. Helgi Tomasson's production is fairly similar to other versions, but gives the nurse a slightly bigger role. Sheila, Froustey is another favorite we have in common! I, too, loved her performances in Paris (did you by any chance see her DonQ with Alu?), but thought her move to SFB a wise one, as it looked like her career in Paris was stalled.. I thought her Juliet was beautifully etched and danced, and also enjoyed Gennadi Nedvigin's Mercutio and Joe Walsh's Benvolio. Edited May 10, 2020 by now voyager 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 I will join in with the Froustey fan club. Thought her Juliet was delicious! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 (edited) Another cast in HT's production of R&J for SFB just shown via Lincoln Center At Home. This was filmed at the Kennedy Center and featured Kochetkova/Karapetyan Edited May 11, 2020 by Bruce Wall 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Ah, that's the one for the cinema broadcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Another SFB work Unbound ... This time a sneaker round by Justin Peck ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Here is Christopher Wheeldon's Unbound ballet, 'Bound To' .... This was one that was featured in the SFB sojourn at the Well's last year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Loved Bound To! In a preview clip, Wheeldon explained that it was his first ballet without ladies in pointe shoes, as he was opting for a grittier realism. Well, Yuan Yuan Tan is an ethereal sylph without pointes! Oh, goodness...what an exquisite ballerina. The most fluid, liquid, pliant, weightless, etc, etc, etc. (sigh) A highlight among the many gems of this COVID streaming season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Just now, Jeannette said: Yuan Yuan Tan is an ethereal sylph without pointes! Oh, goodness...what an exquisite ballerina. Can't possibly disagree with you there! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 20 hours ago, Jeannette said: Not sure if already posted on a separate ROH webstreams thread: Cathy Marston’s The Cellist on May 29! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi54BRJ05GY May 29 will be quite a day/night of streams, with this, NYCB, SFB, the start of Lincoln Center dance week, Miami Firebird, etc. We can add yet another Cathy Marston work to our Virtual Dance Card on May 29, when San Francisco presents her Snowblind, from the 2018 festival. https://www.sfballet.org/sf-ballet-home/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Oh good. I thought I'd like to have another look at that one sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 For a little something different... San Francisco Ballet In Arthur Pita’s Bjork Ballet, yet another offering from the 2018 Unbound Festival. They’ve already set-up the YouTube link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98yI2LT26lw These usually remain up for a week or so...so June 12-18 or 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Jeannette said: For a little something different... San Francisco Ballet In Arthur Pita’s Bjork Ballet, yet another offering from the 2018 Unbound Festival. They’ve already set-up the YouTube link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98yI2LT26lw These usually remain up for a week or so...so June 12-18 or 19. possibly the weirdest ballet I've ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 (edited) Here's the link to Arthur Pita's Bjork Ballet - yet another piece in the fascinating fabric that was SFB's Unbound Festival. Kindly courtesy of BA a listing ... CASTING Carmela Mayo, Elizabeth Powell, Dores André Joseph Walsh, Ulrik Birkkjaer, Luke Ingham Kamryn Baldwin, Gabriela Gonzalez, Ellen Rose Hummel, Elizabeth Mateer, Norika Matsuyama, Skyla Schreter, Miranda Silveira, Ami Yuki Diego Cruz, Daniel Deivison-Oliveira, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez, Alexander Reneff-Olson, Henry Sidford, John-Paul Simoens, Hansuke Yamamoto Björk songs: “Overture”, “All Is Full of Love”, “You’ve Been Flirting Again” “Bachelorette”, “Vokuro”, “Frosti”, “The Gate”, “Hyperballad”, and “Anchor Song” Edited June 13, 2020 by Bruce Wall 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) San Francisco Ballet’s complete Jan 2020 Opening Night “Spellbound Gala” premieres today at 1pm est (6pm London) and stays up for just a few hours...not even a whole day. It begins & ends with Balanchine and includes a lot of new choreography in between...with a Corsaire pdd and Grand Pas Classique thrown in for good measure! link to the Gala on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAoVP6N_o0uhnxMsZiIigcA Edited June 30, 2020 by Jeannette 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Jeannette said: San Francisco Ballet’s complete Jan 2020 Opening Night “Spellbound Gala” premieres today at 1pm est (6pm London) and stays up for just a few hours...not even a whole day. It begins & ends with Balanchine and includes a lot of new choreography in between...with a Corsaire pdd and Grand Pas Classique thrown in for good measure! link to the Gala on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAoVP6N_o0uhnxMsZiIigcA Thanks so for letting us know about Spellbound, Jeannette. If you hadn't I would have missed it ... and it really made my day. So totally refreshing ... Such a glorious mix of styles and music ... It swept along ... with me in total thrall to those stunning dancers' enchantment ... much as they had me transfixed a year ago at the Wells. So pleased to see they had a capacity audience at their home base. So wished they could have had the same here There is no question but that they totally deserved it. Edited June 30, 2020 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Indeed, a magnificent gala from San Francisco! Love all dancers but...I just can’t get enough of that Yuan-Yuan Tan...in the special intermission piece by Possokhov, then The Bells on stage...dancing with Vitor Luiz ar his farewell (though not announced here). Was it really Yuan-Yuan’s 25th anniversary with the company? She must have started at age 5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 6 hours ago, Jeannette said: San Francisco Ballet’s complete Jan 2020 Opening Night “Spellbound Gala” premieres today at 1pm est (6pm London) and stays up for just a few hours...not even a whole day. It begins & ends with Balanchine and includes a lot of new choreography in between...with a Corsaire pdd and Grand Pas Classique thrown in for good measure! Thanks for the heads up! 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 SFB continues producing product - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 The SFB film above includes Madison Keesler, who dance for 4 years with ENB. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 (edited) Another thread in the intriguing SFB output, Guernica. This one od based around a piece Annabelle Lopez Ochoa did for the Unbound Festival. Of local interest will be Solomon Golding, an ex-RB dancer (now an ex-SFB one also). Thought the cinematography employed by Kate Duhamel was quite electrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SsCdMtZwfQ Edited August 15, 2020 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Experts from San Francisco Ballet's Virtual benefit gala. Hosted by SF Ballet Soloist Madison Keesler, the evening's performance, curated by Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson, features excerpts from newly-captured ballets. In this special selection from Leap into the New Year, enjoy an excerpt from Harmony, a new work by Helgi Tomasson; Principal Dancer Yuan Yuan Tan in Yuri Possokhov's Dedicated To...; Principal Dancers Misa Kuranaga and Angelo Greco in the Pas de Deux from Coppélia; a prelude to Mrs. Robinson (scheduled to be part of SF Ballet's 2022 Season) by Cathy Marston featuring Principal Dancers Sarah Van Patten and Joseph Walsh; and the SF Ballet performance debut of two of the Company's new Principal Dancers, Nikisha Fogo and Julian MacKay in the Act III Pas de Deux from Don Quixote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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