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Day: April 11, 2022

NEW DANCES: WIGGLE, TWIDDLE AND FIDDLE

NEW DANCES: WIGGLE, TWIDDLE AND FIDDLE

Diversity of movement comes with modern ballet, far more than in classical counterparts. Such was the lesson from the San Francisco Ballet’s most recent program of moderns, invigorating works peppered with world premieres. It featured as choreographers the veteran Helgi Tomasson and two of the hot younger innovators he had snagged, Dwight Rhoden and the Englishman Christopher Wheeldon—-as different as night and day. Wheeldon stashed all the toe shoes in his jolly-up piece “Finale Finale,” a true joy joy (sic)…

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