Walk: SF Ballet
Distance: 5 miles
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| San Francisco Ballet Broken Wings |
Sometimes Ciwt forgets how important costumes can be to a performance. Not today! Today the supremely superior dancing of the San Francisco Ballet corps actually took a visual second place to the vividly spectacular costumes they were wearing. All enhanced by color-saturated lighting and a musical score steeped in Mexican folk idioms. Broken Wings was an entertaining feast for the eyes and ears from its beginning with the opening of a box a group of by skeletons to its ending with the same box being closed by them but now painted in Frieda Kahlo's iconic colorful butterflies.
This might sound overdone in writing, particularly since Broken Wings follows and life, love and art of the (to Ciwt) overdone in coffee cups and refigerator magnets Mexican artist. But with its splendiferous costumes and headdresses, lightly melodious score and delicate dancing it was a lovely tribute to Frieda Kahlo and the ardent, vividly colorful, self-portraits she produced as antidote to her constant pain and restricted mobility and left to the world after her death at age 47.
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