NEW BALLET: NOVEL AND NIMBLE BOTS?
The new ballet “Blake Works I” appeals most strongly to those in teens and twenties. Its James Blake songs are stripped down and quirky, and the moves are in very modern ballet, with a lot of hip wiggling and squiggling rarely encountered at the San Francisco Ballet. To say nothing of marionette-like parading. But this opus is far more, with the angular, novel and nimble nonstop of hands and arms, as fast as the eye can follow and sometimes knotted…