Erik Tomasson's photographs from the San Francisco Ballet's recent performances of George Balanchine's JEWELS. Above, Sofiane Sylve and Pierre-Francois Vilanoba in DIAMONDS. Read about the production here.
Sofiane Sylve also danced in RUBIES (above).
Hansuke Yamamoto, Dana Genshaft and Frances Chung in the pas de trois from EMERALDS.
Damian Smith and Yuan Tuan Tan in EMERALDS.
Maria Kochetkova and Nicolas Blanc in EMERALDS.
Vanessa Zahorian and Pascal Molat in RUBIES.
Vanessa Zahorian and Davit Karapetyan in DIAMONDS.
All photographs are copyright Erik Tomasson/San Francisco Ballet.
I love that color of green on the girl's Emeralds tutus. It seems more vibrant and less subdued than what I'm used to seeing.
Sofiane looks ready to take off into the heavens with that pose.
Posted by: perky | April 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Hi Perky! Yes, these pictures of Sofiane really show us what we're missing since she left NYCB!
Posted by: Philip | April 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM