World Premiere:
February 25, 2023
Event:
Company:
San Francisco Ballet
Venue:
War Memorial Opera House
Location:
San Francisco
,
CA
,
USA
Choreography:
Nicolas Blanc
Music:
Anna Clyne
Costume Design:
Katrin Schnabl
Scenic Design:
Katrin Schnabl
Lighting Design:
Jim French
Sound Design
Projection Design:
ARTICLES & CRITICAL ACCLAIM
Broadway World
April 4, 2024
To celebrate its 90th season in 2023, San Francisco Ballet created a wildly ambitious festival of nine world premieres by a diverse group of celebrated choreographers. As exciting as such events are, though, it can be hard to discern in a single viewing the actual, lasting merits of that many new works.
ArtsSF
January 28, 2023
There’s hope for us all when a lead dancer here moves on to choreography and finds his inspiration with 13thcentury Persian poets. The Frenchman Nicolas Blanc, a principal here shortly after the Millennium, turned to the poet Rumi in creating his new “Gateway to the Sun” for the San Francisco Ballet.
”The program kicks off with Nicolas Blanc’s mesmerizing Gateway to the Sun, which I found to be the most rewarding ballet on the program.“
”Blanc’s unusual holds and lifts in his choreography make this a work crying out to be revived long after the festival of nine premieres is packed away.“
Photos by:
Lindsay Thomas
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