San Francisco Ballet European tour summer 2014

[toursenlair]

In addition to spending three weeks at the Les Etes de la danse festival in Paris  in July (for program: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2013/12/san-francisco-ballet-tours-to-paris.html), San Francisco Ballet have just announced they will also be dancing at the Spoleto Festival in Italy:

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: Ciao! SF Ballet will be visiting the Spoleto Festival, July 4-6 for three performances featuring works by Alexei Ratmanksy, Hans van Manen, Sir Frederick Ashton and Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson. Tickets are available now!

Visit the Spoleto Festival Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/1peAru0

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Spoleto Festival

July 4-6, 2014

San Francisco Ballet will perform four works over three performances during this summer’s Spoleto Festival—the annual summer arts festival in Spoleto, Italy that offers a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, and visual arts.

From Foreign Lands, created by American Ballet Theatre Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, takes audiences on “a lyrical tour through Europe.” (The New York Times) Set to a score by Moritz Moszkowski, the work incorporates steps that hint at traditional dances from Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Hungary.

Variations for Two Couples by Hans van Manen, resident choreographer at Dutch National Ballet, had its American premiere on January 22, 2014 at SF Ballet’s Opening Night Gala. DanceTabs.com described the work “the best all-round piece of the evening…from the exquisitely concise choreography by this still-relevant master…”

Set to the music of Johann Strauss, Voices of Spring is a pas de deux ballet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, and was first performed as an independent ballet by The Royal Ballet in 1978.

Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight has become a cornerstone of SF Ballet’s repertory since its debut in 2004. Upon its premiere, the San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed that 7 for Eight “establishes [Tomasson] at a new level of development where his two artistic faces—the classical and expressive—merge… his ballet overflowed with spare and resonant poetry.”

- See more at: http://www.sfballet.org/tickets/ontour#sthash.gITeop8N.dpuf

Spoleto Festival

July 4-6, 2014

San Francisco Ballet will perform four works over three performances during this summer’s Spoleto Festival—the annual summer arts festival in Spoleto, Italy that offers a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, and visual arts.

From Foreign Lands, created by American Ballet Theatre Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, takes audiences on “a lyrical tour through Europe.” (The New York Times) Set to a score by Moritz Moszkowski, the work incorporates steps that hint at traditional dances from Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Hungary.

Variations for Two Couples by Hans van Manen, resident choreographer at Dutch National Ballet, had its American premiere on January 22, 2014 at SF Ballet’s Opening Night Gala. DanceTabs.com described the work “the best all-round piece of the evening…from the exquisitely concise choreography by this still-relevant master…”

Set to the music of Johann Strauss, Voices of Spring is a pas de deux ballet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, and was first performed as an independent ballet by The Royal Ballet in 1978.

Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight has become a cornerstone of SF Ballet’s repertory since its debut in 2004. Upon its premiere, the San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed that 7 for Eight “establishes [Tomasson] at a new level of development where his two artistic faces—the classical and expressive—merge… his ballet overflowed with spare and resonant poetry.”

- See more at: http://www.sfballet.org/tickets/ontour#sthash.gITeop8N.dpuf

Spoleto Festival

July 4-6, 2014

San Francisco Ballet will perform four works over three performances during this summer’s Spoleto Festival—the annual summer arts festival in Spoleto, Italy that offers a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, and visual arts.

From Foreign Lands, created by American Ballet Theatre Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, takes audiences on “a lyrical tour through Europe.” (The New York Times) Set to a score by Moritz Moszkowski, the work incorporates steps that hint at traditional dances from Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Hungary.

Variations for Two Couples by Hans van Manen, resident choreographer at Dutch National Ballet, had its American premiere on January 22, 2014 at SF Ballet’s Opening Night Gala. DanceTabs.com described the work “the best all-round piece of the evening…from the exquisitely concise choreography by this still-relevant master…”

Set to the music of Johann Strauss, Voices of Spring is a pas de deux ballet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, and was first performed as an independent ballet by The Royal Ballet in 1978.

Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight has become a cornerstone of SF Ballet’s repertory since its debut in 2004. Upon its premiere, the San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed that 7 for Eight “establishes [Tomasson] at a new level of development where his two artistic faces—the classical and expressive—merge… his ballet overflowed with spare and resonant poetry.”

- See more at: http://www.sfballet.org/tickets/ontour#sthash.gITeop8N.dpuf

 

[toursenlair]

SFB has made some programming changes to its Paris performances this July:

http://toursenlair.blogspot.com/2014/05/update-san-francisco-ballet-in-paris.html

[toursenlair]

Yet more programming changes for SFB in Paris:

http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2014/05/update-san-francisco-ballet-in-paris.html

[Bruce Wall]

Thanks for this Katherine.  You just sold me a ticket