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Apr 11, 2011
SF Ballet - Program 6, A Power Packed Triple Feature
San Francisco Sentinel Review by Sean Martinfield
PROGRAM 6 is one of the finest triptych's ever assembled by San Francisco Ballet. It is a tempting three-course banquet of dance that is complex in flavor, rich in texture, and bold in presentation. Beginning with Christoper Wheeldon's Ghosts, an encore delight from the company's 2010 world premiere, the ballet is a reverie on unresolved hopes and fears, delayed passions and scattered longings. The images seem all at once cohesive, as if moving toward a narrative, then melting away into hazy impressions - the fleeting remnants of things certain and the vagueries of what might have been. The music is from composer and instrumentalist C.F. Kip Winger - of the hard rock band Winger and one-time member of Alice Cooper. The textures are dense and provocative, sometimes poignantly sweet, riddled with sudden shocks and elongated streams of scrambled tensions - as seen particularly in the pas de deux of Maria Kochetkova and Vitor Luiz. As with all ghostly tales, the evidence is unsettling, the energies are turbulent and fleeting, but the adventure remains in the heart and preys on the imagination.
