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“Youthful High Jinks” and “Don Q” Lore!

By Carrie Gaiser Casey
PhD, San Francisco Ballet Guest Lecturer
April 24, 2012

On Monday, April 30 I will be giving a talk at the Museum of Performance and Design on the great nineteenth century ballet comedic masterpiece, Don Quixote, this season’s firecracker closer at San Francisco Ballet. This ballet has it all – a romantic storyline, a deliciously exotic Spanish setting, and some of the [...]

Musings from a Dance Scholar: What IS Contemporary Ballet?

By Carrie Gaiser Casey
PhD, San Francisco Ballet Guest Lecturer
February 9, 2012

Program 2 at San Francisco Ballet prompts one of those unanswerable questions that I see bandied about occasionally on internet ballet forums. With dances by three leading contemporary choreographers – Wayne McGregor, Mark Morris, and Christopher Wheeldon – the question inevitably arises, what IS contemporary ballet? Now this question of labels and aesthetic rubrics is, [...]

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