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 & 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…

Ballet Around the World, Review May 25, 2018

Unbound Festival Roundup at San Francisco Ballet

By Emilia

From the end of April to beginning of May 2018, we welcomed the Unbound Festival at San Francisco Ballet. In addition to 12 brand…

Guillaume Côté in Nijinsky. Photo: © Aleksandar Antonijevic.

Interviews April 5, 2018

Guillaume Côté on Neumeier’s Nijinsky

By Emilia

The National Ballet of Canada is currently touring San Francisco with John Neumeier’s Nijinsky, a two-act ballet about the Ballets Russes icon who has long been a…

Ballet Around the World, Ballet History January 24, 2018

Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage

By Emilia

During Nutcracker season in California, we were lucky to catch Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the LACMA. This exhibition highlighted the principal role that…