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Tony Bravo February 23, 2021Updated: February 24, 2021, 11:46 am Dancer/choreographer Myles Thatcher, here with Olafur Eliasson’s “One-way colour tunnel” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, shot his piece “Colorforms” for the San Francisco Ballet digital season at SFMOMA. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle Imagine people dancing ecstatically through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s galleries, next to Ellsworth Kelly paintings and Alexander Calder sculptures. In choreographer Myles Thatcher’s newest work, “Colorforms,” part of Program 2 in the San Francisco Ballet’s digital 2021 season, you get that vision as dancers spin and leap through the museum, tracing the paths of paper airplanes they throw gleefully. ....
Rachel Howard February 11, 2021Updated: February 12, 2021, 7:13 am The San Francisco Ballet in the world premiere of Myles Thatcher’s “Colorforms.” Photo: Ezra Hurwitz, San Francisco Ballet Are audiences attracted by frenzied glamour and urgent escapism in these pandemic-beleaguered early days of 2021? That’s what San Francisco Ballet’s advertising has mostly served up, with tense music and all-caps headlines touting “world class ballet” brought to your living room. Fortunately for those of us needing relief from such intensity, the mood is quite different in Myles Thatcher’s new ballet, “Colorforms,” which premieres as part of the Ballet’s digital Program 2 on Thursday, Feb. 11, and shoots off the screen like a ray of sheer, unforced pleasure. ....
San Francisco Ballet s online opening night could have been cause for concern. Dance does not record well; how diminished a thing is this going to be? Would they be ready? Would the dancers be out of shape? Would their technique have gone ragged? Had they have lost stage presence? Show signs of strain? Would long-time favorites dancers still be here? Would they be wearing masks of forced gaiety? And also, will they answer the questions of diversity and inclusion? Yes they were ready. Yes, we have a Black ballerina, Nikisha Fogo, who danced ravishingly. Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson left Ms. Fogo s dancing to prove itself as the climax of the evening; but he set out to answer the readiness question immediately. ....
Rachel Howard January 15, 2021Updated: January 15, 2021, 6:21 pm The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Martin West. Photo: San Francisco Ballet Patrons prepared not by fastening their tuxedo cuff links but by downloading an app; the ribs bourguignon were served not piping hot in the War Memorial Opera House halls but reheated in the microwave after home delivery. Yet there we were on Thursday, Jan. 14, for the opening gala of San Francisco Ballet’s 88th season, connected through our computer screens. There were the dancers, some with their spouses, in little Zoom boxes at virtual “tables,” free to socialize because their performances had been prerecorded. ....