San Francisco Performances Presents - Wendy Whelan/Restless Creature
Organization:
San Francisco Performances - 35th Anniversary Season
Category:
Performing Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
1/15/2015
End Date:
1/16/2015
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
Thur-Fri, Jan 15-16, 2015, 7:30pm
Upholding its hallmark for presenting important artists often in their Bay Area debuts, San Francisco Performances is pleased to present Wendy Whelan for the first time in San Francisco, in her first independent creative project titled "Restless Creature." Performances will be given Thursday and Friday, January 15 and 16, 2015 at 7:30 pm at YBCA Theater in San Francisco.
Whelan, the internationally celebrated dancer whom The New York Times called "America's greatest ballerina," began thinking about new creative directions in 2012, well before her farewell performance with NYCB on October 18, 2014 (one of the most publicized retirements in NYCB history). Her interest in continuing to dance as well as pursuing a larger role in the creation and shaping of new works propelled her to develop new collaborations, the result of which was The Wendy Whelan New Works Initiative, with Restless Creature being its first project. The piece which premiered at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in August 2013, and internationally in London, UK for the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, July 2014, is a suite of four duets created for Whelan by - and danced with - some of today's most exciting young choreographers: 2014 MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham, Joshua Beamish, Brian Brooks, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo.
Whelan's leap from classical ballet to contemporary dance is a well-planned move, building on her already considerable experience serving as the favorite muse of modern choreographers including Christopher Wheeldon, William Forsythe and Alexei Ratmansky.
The New York Times Dance Critic Alastair Macaulay weighed in on Restless Creature, "It's hard to think of another woman who could dance these pieces, by four different choreographers, half so strikingly. Everything about her is riveting, interesting, unusual, intelligent."
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