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Apr 10, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle Review - San Francisco Ballet Program 6
By Allan Ulrich, Chronicle Dance Correspondent
The evening opens with a revival of Christopher Wheeldon's enigmatic "Ghosts," enhanced with a romantic score by C.F. Kip Winger and well conducted by Martin West. The bodies leaping from the floor like dolphins and Laura Jellinek's descending abstract sculpture hint at a hidden narrative. But this is a piece that dispenses genuine pleasure in artful details, like the voluptuously phrased unison duets for the three corps couples or the volatile trio for Sofiane Sylve, Tiit Helimets and, in a fine role debut, Quinn Wharton.
San Francisco Ballet: Dances by Wheeldon, Tomasson, McGregor. Through April 20. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave., S.F. $20-$265. (415) 865-2000. www.sfballet.org.
