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Day: January 21, 2023

NEW BALLETS AS DRAMA, BUT ON SPEED

NEW BALLETS AS DRAMA, BUT ON SPEED

For the ballet’s 90th-season celebration, if you were looking for “A nice new white ballet,” forget it. The San Francisco Ballet came out with guns blazing, firing artistic six-shooters exuberantly in the air, and delving into deep drama where dance troupes often fear to tread. This was the new regime, loaded down with new thought-provoking works under new leadership, breaking with preconceived convention. It presented two story ballets as stormy as our the whirlwind winter  weather among the three world premieres….

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