Smuin Ballet Performs in the 2004 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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Smuin Ballet Performs
in the 2004 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Mission Street between 3rd and 4th Streets
San Francisco, CA. July 19, 2004. The internationally acclaimed Smuin Ballet comes to the Yerba Buena Gardens Sunday, August 29th, 2004 from 2pm to 4pm to perform two pieces from its stellar repertoire.
This free Sunday afternoon performance, a highlight of the 2004 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, is presented in partnership with Smuin Ballet.
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 more than 30 years.
The program for the afternoon performance in the Gardens consists of two pieces choreographed by Michael Smuin: Come Dance Me A Song and Tango Palace.
Come Dance Me A Song is set to Elton John's epic ballads including "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Candle in the Wind," "Tiny Dancer," and more. The ballet, which features jazz, tap, and ballet, was called "an entertaining confection," by the S.F. Chronicle when first performed in 2002. Tango Palace is a seductive fantasy of possession and passion, jealousy, loss and love. The brothel, the barrio, and the barroom become sultry playgrounds of grace and vulnerability - rooms in a "Tango Palace" where sexual urgency and delayed longing collide. Tango Palace creates a feverish vision of desire through dance.
Linda Lucero, Interim Director of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival said, "We are pleased to welcome back to our Festival such a distinguished dance company."
Free Artistic and Cultural Programming in Yerba Buena Gardens is made possible through the generosity of The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, The National Endowment for the Arts, MJM Management Group, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The W.A. Gerbode Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The Fleishhacker Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Walter & Elise Haas Fund, and individual contributions. Media sponsors for the 2004 Festival are WB20, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, KDFC, JC Decaux, Laser.Com, and San Francisco Downtown Magazine. 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
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