NEWS
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Oct 06, 2012
Feature Review: San Francisco Ballet at Sadler's Wells
The Classical Source - Written by G. J. Dowler
The strongest work was Wheeldon's Edgar Allen Poe-inspired Ghosts to C. F. Kip Winger's fine score (finely played too). Here, costuming is spot on - dancers clad in diaphanous, floaty white over-garments - and Wheeldon deftly evokes the image of spirits at play, aided by Mary Louise Geiger's superbly atmospheric lighting. His choreography is eerie, inventive, haunting; it is a decidedly impressive essay in themed movement. Both Sofiane Sylve and the season's star Maria Kochetkova were superb but all praise to the entire cast, fully in style, working as one to create the impression of the beyond. A work that needs to be seen again.
