SF Ballet

In typical BAYA fashion, the beginnings of an event fell into play at about 4:45pm today when I received a voicemail about 4 San Francisco Ballet tickets for tonight's 7:30 performance. Our friend, Ruth, is a cellist for the SF Ballet Company and has mentioned before that she gets complimentary tickets for shows, but we have never been able to go in the past. Within 30 minutes we had organized and planned to meet for dinner and the ballet! Thank goodness for cell phones!

We arrived at the entrance and the bell chimed, telling us to hurry up and scarf down the dinner burritos because they were closing the doors. Soon we were seated in the balcony watching dancers gracefully glide across the stage and point their toes in a manner that didn't look humanly possible! (see photo)

This was the perfect ballet performance for me to watch because there were three ballets in one! The first one was a jazzy little ballet with great music and choreography titled Elemental Brubeck. The second was Concordia, in its World Premiere, which I think is a big deal because the dancers were given these huge bouquets of flowers when they took their final bows. This ballet had contemporary dancing contrasted with the traditional ballet which was very cool to watch together. The third, and most AMAZING, was Symphony in C choreographed by George Balanchine. This ballet seemed to have every dancer from the company on stage dancing their buns off. What a unexpected and wonderful evening in San Francisco! Thanks, Ruth!