West Coast visit.Absent from Manhattan for four years, the San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. bows at the Lincoln Center Festival with four New York premieres, three of them commissioned by the mighty company from the West. Mark Morris' full-evening Sylvia is the modernist's ingenious but respectful take on a 19th-century ballet classic, encased en·case tr.v. en·cased, en·cas·ing, en·cas·es To enclose in or as if in a case. en·case  ment n. in Delibes' wondrous score and dressed in Martin Pakledinaz's spectacular decor. Artistic director Helgi Tomasson's 7 for Eight draws its inspiration from assorted Bach pieces and the company's incomparable array of international dancers. Christopher Wheeldon's Quaternary quaternary /qua·ter·nary/ (kwah´ter-nar?e)1. fourth in order. 2. containing four elements or groups. qua·ter·nar·y adj. 1. Consisting of four; in fours. plumbs Bach, John Cage, and Steven Mackey for an urgent "four seasons" abstraction. William Forsythe's incendiary Artifact Suite reworks the choreographer's signature 1984 Artifact. A gala celebration that includes Yuri Possokhov's Reflections launches the week-long run. July 25-30, New York State Theater The New York State Theater is part of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza (at Columbus Avenue & 63rd Street) that it shares with the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall (home of the New . www.lincolncenter.org. |
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