San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Tamara Rojo and choreographer Aszure Barton will be presented  at Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum on Sunday, October 15 at 3 and 7:30 pm. In her first-curated season as artistic director, Rojo will center cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations, celebrate the artists and histories of San Francisco, and spotlight women’s voices on stage and off. The Works & Process program will offer a behind-the-scenes look at Rojo’s vision and illuminate the creative process of the newly commissioned ballet Mere Mortals, with music by Floating Points and choreography by Barton, which opens SF Ballet’s 2024 Repertory Season in January. Aiming to provide an immersive and visceral experience for the audience’s senses, Mere Mortals will recontextualize the classic parable of Pandora’s box and marks the first full-length work SF Ballet has commissioned from a female choreographer. Rojo and Barton will discuss Mere Mortals’ creative process and how the work will take on the possibilities and consequences of artificial intelligence, and SF Ballet dancers will perform excerpts.
Romeo and Juliet
Dance Company: Philadelphia Ballet
Romeo and Juliet
Experience this reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous tale of star-crossed lovers, set to the renowned score of Sergei Prokofiev. Reimagined by Philadelphia Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Juliano Nunes, Romeo and Juliet follows the story of two young lovers from feuding families whose intense passion leads to their untimely tragic end.
