Smuin Ballet in Yerba Buena Gardens
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Smuin Ballet in Yerba Buena Gardens
Sunday, August 24
2pm - 4pm
Esplanade Gardens
San Francisco, CA. July 28, 2003. The internationally acclaimed Smuin Ballet comes to the Yerba Buena Gardens Sunday, August 24th, 2003 at 2 p.m. to perform two pieces from its stellar repertoire.
This free Sunday afternoon performance, a highlight of the San Francisco summer arts season, is presented by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in partnership with the Smuin Ballet.
The Smuin Ballet was founded in 1994 by Michael Smuin, formerly the Co-Director of the San Francisco Ballet. The company quickly established itself not only as one of the Bay Area's most eagerly watched performing arts companies, but also as "one of the country's most entertaining, original ballet troupes" (Dance Magazine). At the heart of the company is Mr. Smuin's singular ability to create pieces that merge the diverse vocabularies of classical ballet and contemporary dance forms. The winner of several Emmy Awards as well as a Tony Award (for Anything Goes), Smuin has been active in film, on Broadway, and on the ballet stage for nearly 20 years.
The program for the afternoon performance in the Gardens consists of two pieces choreographed by Michael Smuin: To the Beatles Revisited 2001 and Carmina Burana.
To the Beatles is a hip, entertaining celebration of the most influential and beloved group in the history of pop, set to the Fab Four's immortal recordings. From bravura acrobatics to moments of enlightened stillness, the evening visits the many moods of the Beatles and their history-altering music. Carmina Burana is a ballet whose powerfully ritualistic movement and sexuality is set to the richly dramatic music of Carl Orff. Written by Orff based on a series of 12th-century secular poems, Carmina Burana explores religious, political, moral, erotic, Bacchic, and Satirical material with driving rhythms and exultant hedonism. Smuin matches this lush, lascivious, brashly vibrant style with his signature choreography.
Mario Garcia Durham, Executive Director of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival said, "We are honored to include such a distinguished dance company in our Festival this year. We invite San Franciscans and visitors to bring a picnic, a blanket and a sunhat and sit back and enjoy this very special free performance of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival."
Free artistic and cultural programming in Yerba Buena Gardens has been made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, KTB Management Group, the San Francisco Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the W.A. Gerbode Foundation, and other sponsors. Media sponsors for Festival 2003 are KDFC, San Francisco Downtown Magazine, Dance Magazine, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Yerba Buena Arts & Events, organizer of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, is located at 760 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone (415) 543-1718; Fax (415) 543-1755; e-mail: ybgf@ybgf.org
http://ybgf.org
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