Emilia

Likes ballets that taste like 85% cocoa: pure, extra bitter, dark or intense. Her favorites are La Sylphide, Manon, Mayerling, Ondine, Symphonic Variations and McGregor's Chroma. Her favorite Ratmansky ballets are: The Little Humpbacked Horse, Russian Seasons, Cinderella and The Shostakovich Trilogy. She is always ready to chase new Ratmanskys around the globe. Non ballet: literature, theatre, opera, rock, art, food, travel, fashion, translating and interpreting.

Ballet Around the World, Going to the Ballet, Review November 15, 2019

A week of dance movies in San Francisco

By Emilia

Earlier this month, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival celebrated its 10 year anniversary. Featuring full movies and curated collections of short films, the festival…

Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Thiago Soares, Yuhui Choe and Artists of The Royal Ballet.

Review July 22, 2019

The Royal Ballet in Los Angeles: Mayerling

By Emilia

This summer, Linda and I pulled a switcheroo with our home companies, seeing that San Francisco Ballet visited London in June, and that The Royal…

Mathilde Froustey, Sasha de Sola, Yuan Yuan Tan and Ulrik Birkkjaer in Alexei Ratmansky's Chamber Symphony.

Dancers, Interviews May 27, 2019

An interview with SFB’s Ulrik Birkkjaer

By Emilia

This week, San Francisco Ballet returns to London after a 7-year absence. On display at Sadler’s Wells are many of the new works premiered last year…

Ballet & Culture, Ballet Around the World, Contemporary Dance, Review October 17, 2018

Fury: a Mad Max Ballet

By Emilia

Last time I reported on the ballet scene in San Francisco, SF Ballet’s Unbound Festival had just taken place. I know that seems ages ago, but…