BALLET FESTIVAL AFTERMATH
There’s hope for us all when a lead dancer here moves on to choreography and finds his inspiration with 13thcentury Persian poets. The Frenchman Nicolas Blanc, a principal here shortly after the Millennium, turned to the poet Rumi in creating his new “Gateway to the Sun” for the San Francisco Ballet. The main character is the lonely, reflective Poet, presumably Rumi himself, separate but connected with the community around him. Max Cauthorn played that lead barefoot in a breakthrough dancing…
