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New Works Festival.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08 		Format: Online
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New Works Festival

San Francisco Ballet

April 22-May 6, 2008

War Memorial Opera House

San Francisco, CA

This festival of 10 world premieres celebrated SFB's 75th anniversary by putting its faith in contemporary ballet. Almost all the works had elegant sets and live music (hallelujah!). Naturally some ballets were less striking than others, but I would wager that six will have a long life.

The three pieces that were about sheer movement and music also happened to be the three that I would travel great distances to see again: Jorma Elo's Double Evil, Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour, and Stanton Welch's Naked.

The combination of tutus and drums in Double Evil thrust this piece into a mode that could be called tribal/classical. The snaking heads; undulating bodies; and big wheeling, slicing lifts that have become Elo's signature moves were put to propulsive use here. Inventiveness flowed, momentum mounted, and the dancers reveled in Elo's supremely quirky movement. In the...

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