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SF Ballet Nutcracker dates and reviews
Photo by Erik Tomasson
I'll be performing in San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker on the following dates:
Friday December 9th (Opening Night), 7pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Saturday December 10th, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Tuesday December 13th, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Thursday December 15th, 2pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Joan Boada)
Saturday December 17th, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Pascal Molat)
Tuesday December 20th, 2pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Wednesday December 21st, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Pascal Molat)
Saturday December 24th, 11am - Grand Pas de Deux (with Joan Boada)
Tuesday December 27th, 7pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Reviews:
"The pinnacle of the evening, as it should be, was the grand pas de deux essayed by Maria Kochetkova and Gennadi Nedvigin... Kochetkova, for her part, is both exquisitely refined and remarkably believable as a recently transformed woman-child dancing with wonderment in her eyes." San Francisco Chronicle
"The evening closed with an immaculate performance of the Grand Pas by Maria Kochetkova, the tiny, Russian-born, Bolshoi-trained great-hearted ballerina who came to SF several years back and has made herself a star here in record time. Her variation ends with a diagonal line of sharp-cut steps that sprang to pointe and streaked back upstage like diamonds in a bracelet." Bay Area Reporter
"What sets Kochetkova apart, though, is her interpretation of the solo variation. She hears the Russian folk tunes inherent in the music, picking out the delicate rhythms and channeling her inner Tsar Maiden. A pure delight." California Literary Review
San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker - my dates
Saturday, December 11th, 2pm - Sugar Plum Fairy
Sunday, December 12th, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Pascal Molat)
Tuesday, December 14th, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Pascal Molat)
Wednesday, December 15th, 7pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Joan Boada)
Thursday, December 16th, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Friday, December 17th, 7pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Joan Boada)
Sunday, December 19th, 7pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Tuesday, December 21st, 7pm - Sugar Plum Fairy
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2pm - Sugar Plum Fairy
Wednesday, December 22nd, 7pm - Snow Queen (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Friday, December 24th, 11am - Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
Monday, December 27th, 2pm - Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin)
If you can't make it to San Francisco you can also watch my performance on PBS between 17th and 25th December
3rd week casting of The Nutcracker
Wednesday matinee, December 23rd - Sugar Plum Fairy
Thursday matinee, December 24th - Snow Queen with Gennadi Nedvigin
Saturday matinee, December 26th - Grand Pas de Deux with Gennadi NedviginBuy ticketsAfter my matinee on Saturday I'm off to the airport to go to St. Petersburg for a gala with Gennadi here is information
Nutcracker 2nd week casting
Wednesday night, December 16th - Snow Queen with Gennadi Nedvigin
Thursday night, December 17th - Sugar Plum Fairy
Friday night, December 18th - Snow Queen with Gennadi Nedvigin
Nutcracker Grand Pas de Deux, Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen
Photo ©Erik TomassonWednesday night, December 9th - Grand Pas de Deux with Davit Karapetyan
Thursday night, December 10th - Sugar Plum Fairy
Friday night, December 11th - Snow Queen with Gennadi Nedvigin (premiere)
Sunday Matinee, December 13th - Grand Pas de Deux with Davit Karapetyan
San Francisco Ballet 'Nutcracker' Performances
Upcoming dates for my Nutcracker performances:Grand Pas de Deux (with Gennadi Nedvigin):
Sunday 14th 2pm
Tuesday 23rd 7pm
Friday 26th 7pm
Sunday 28th 7pmSugar Plum Fairy:
Saturday 13th 2pm
Friday 26th 2pm
Saturday 27th 7pm
San Francisco Ballet's 'Nutcracker' on TV and DVD
"Having three tries at perfection didn't alleviate the extra pressure on 24-year-old principal Maria Kochetkova, who found herself cast in the climactic Grand Pas de Deux opposite hunky, buoyant Davit Karapetyan as one of her first assignments with a brand-new company."It was a new stage, a new audience, a new ballet to me," said Kochetkova, who trained at Russia's Bolshoi School and joined the San Francisco Ballet from the English National Ballet. "I found out I was cast for this two weeks before. In that pas de deux, you have to walk right into the spotlight, you have to dance right away."Taking a break after the daily company class, the doll-faced Kochetkova was critical of her sparkling performance after seeing the video a few days earlier. "The film is really beautiful, though of course for myself I see things I would do better," she said. Still, she was full of praise for the choreography - "It's really big, and I like big movements" - and gratitude to Tomasson: "He really believes in me and believes I can do it better onstage than in the studio," she said. "I felt before him I hadn't realized the things I can actually do.""
San Francisco Chronicle
SFB's Nutcracker playing in European Cinemas
Sunday 14th December, 11am and 4pmDavid Lean Cinema, Croydon (Dec 29/30/31st)Filmhouse Edinburgh (Dec 28th)Macrobert, Stirling (Dec 30th) UK and European Arts Alliance screening locationsCanada and UK DigiScreen screening locationsCasting on IMDBMore information about San Francisco Ballet's 'Nutcracker'
