DANCING TO THE DESPOTS
Modern ballet at its most effusive marks the all-Ratmansky evening dubbed “The Shostakovich Trilogy.” In the modern mode, dancers bend, twist, lean, and go upside down, quite beyond classical ballet. And the San Francisco Ballet’s ensemble is impeccable in spinning an entire evening of Russian émigré Alexei Ratmansky’s choreography—-truly a winning combination to finish off a very rich SFB season. If at one extreme these performers can be compared to a well-tuned high-performance sports car, at the other they have…