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Courtney Elizabeth: versatile and daring, the SFB dancer loves new challenges.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-NOV-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Courtney Elizabeth: versatile and daring, the SFB dancer loves new challenges.( )

Article Excerpt
"No, I just don't aspire to dance Odette," declares the San Francisco Ballet's Courtney Elizabeth, puncturing the notion that for budding ballerinas Swan Lake remains the apex of a dancing career.

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What Elizabeth does seek is artistic challenge and participation in the collaborative process. She found those qualities and then some in last spring's New Works Festival. Suddenly, after five years of respectable, even thrilling, work on the SFB corps roster, the public noticed her--big time.

Indeed, you couldn't miss Elizabeth in Paul Taylor's Changes last April. Her corona of free-floating chestnut hair seemed emblematic of the tumultuous, liberated, and druggy 1960s evoked by the choreographer. Two nights later, the dancer glowed in another part made for her temperament, the enigmatic Hilda...

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