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San Francisco Ballet completes tour with shows in Manhattan - Copenhagen and Minneapolis with NYC ballet performances, Oct. 20-25 - Brief Article
Dance Magazine, Oct, 1998 by Rita Felciano
NEW YORK CITY--San Francisco Ballet winds up its three-city fall tour to Copenhagen, Minneapolis, and New York City with a six-day (October 20 to 25) appearance at City Center in Manhattan. The four different programs the company performs in New York are, not surprisingly, drawn from SFB's past season, although the company decided against scheduling two of its major San Francisco premieres, Jerome Robbins's Glass Pieces and George Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer, as the sets were judged unsuitable for the City Center stage.
SFB is bringing three of its other recent Bay Area premieres, however; Robbins's The Cage, which is scheduled to feature the debut of the company's stunning new principal, Lucia Lacarra, formerly of Roland Petit's Ballet National de Marseille, and Harald Lander's demonstration of the danse d'ecole, Etudes. William Forsythe's 1996 The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude is a fast and furious tutu ballet, set to the allegro movement of Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major. It was first presented on SFB's "Discovery Program" along with world premieres by James Kudelka and Val Caniparoli.
Two of artistic director Helgi Tomasson's recent creations, the 1997 Criss-Cross, which highlights the dancing of SFB's younger members, and Silver Ladders, premiered in April, are also on the program. The two works show the choreographer at his musically most adventurous. Criss-Cross is set to a gloss by Charles Avison on Scarlatti keyboard sonatas and another by Arnold Schoenberg on a Handel concerto grosso. Silver Ladders is choreographed to the eponymous orchestra piece by contemporary American composer Joan Tower.
Also on the program is Balanchine's Agon; Christopher Bruce's Sergeant Early's Dream, which traces the immigrant's experience from the British Isles to America; and the deliciously sinister The Lesson, by Flemming Flindt, about a sadistic ballet master and his hapless student, based on the Ionesco play.
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