• Vanessa Ringor
• DNCE 3A Ballet I - SECTION 03, Professor T’Sani
The performance title is Onegin. The attendance date was May 7, 2016. The location was located at 455 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102.
The name of the company that was performing is the San Francisco Ballet.
The performance was an evening length work. There was a 20 minute and 15 minute intermission. The genre was unknown (that I know of).
Choreographer(s):
• Cranko
Composer(s):
• Tchaikovsky
The dance concert was very strong and powerful and it showed meaningful passion within 2 hours.

• Who is Onegin?
At first, I did not know who Onegin was because in the very beginning of the concert there was a couple who danced and at that moment I thought that it was him. It actually was a different man with an unknown name that I do not know. There was a second dance piece after the first couple who danced, and I had a strong feeling that man was absolutely Onegin. He was wearing formal clothes and looked very sophisticated rather than that other man. I could have just looked at the small book and figured out that was Onegin and not someone else. (104 words)
• Why were people in the background not talking from the first dance piece, even though people were talking in the background with the other dance pieces?
In my opinion, I think people were not talking in the background for the first dance because they were not involved with the dance concert just yet. They looked that they were really frozen and could not set up any emotion but happiness. After Princess Tatianna and Onegin danced the first time, the maids started dancing right then and there. The minor dancers became a part of the show now and seeing how well they dance is very inspiring. It may be difficult to dance at the same time with a variety of people, but their dance moves are magnificent! (100 words)
• Why did Onegin kill Ulga’s (one of the main dancers) “ex-boyfriend?” In my opinion, Ulga first like the man that she danced with from the first piece of dance. Princess Tatianna liked Onegin very much, but he did not like her because he thought that she was only a “kid,” and for her not to be with him. He showed Tatianna a paper (perhaps dealing with marriage and not getting any of his money if they do not want to be with each other anymore) and she kept on saying no towards that conflict. So then he decided to rip it up and threw it on the ground. In the very end, Onegin made a decision about how mature Tatianna was now and he now wanted to be with her but she said no and she was dancing with someone else instead. Onegin was probably over her after, and he decided to get with Ugla. Ulga chose to be with Onegin instead of that other man, and that other man and Tatianna were trying to get back with Ugla and Onegin back. That other man was really pushing on getting Ulga back, but he went too far to push Onegin’s buttons. Out of nowhere there in the woods, Onegin decided to kill him with a matter of serious revenge. (208 words)

* It would be really easy for me to understand if the music was verbal and not being played by music, but Cranko (the choreographer) made it very easy to understand what the story of Onegin was all about. In front of the stage on the ground, there was a variety of people playing music using numerous instruments. It may be difficult to play that type of music and the dancers dancing to that music, because they all need to get the things on point and on key. I do not think I would ever do that, because I am bad on keeping the beat going whenever I listen to a song that is being played with words or even to regular instruments. The music was very powerful and the music went along with scenes from all of the three acts. (140 words) * Before the ballet concert began at 8:00 pm, I went to the expensive gift shop at the San Francisco Ballet hat was very miniature and small. I spotted a few ballet shoes that were inside the gift shop, and they had autographed names on the shoes. I am not sure if they were really their shoes, but I think that is a good sales item to merchandise with the customers. I like seeing my first name from just everywhere, and I saw my name on a shoe and the surname was Zahorian. I looked her up and she looks somewhat old to me. She joined the San Francisco Ballet in the year of 1997. I finally looked at the booklet they handed me as I went inside the structure, and Zahorian was a part of the “Onegin” dance piece and she was Princess Tatianna. She was an amazing dancer and is able to dance with her tippy toes which is very hard to do. She is one of the people that inspire me to keep forward on doing ballet still outside of class in the future. (186 words) * Every dancer in every act danced amazingly fantastic. I was looking for if anyone would mess up (not to be rude), but I did not think anyone messed up at all. They had such great technique with their posture and aiming for a great dance from the beginning towards the end. I wonder how long it would take for them to remember what to do for every step for all three acts. The dnacers were doing grand battlements, chaine turns perfectly, and a variety of lifts that are unspeakably perfect. All of them are strong, but most importantly their legs are the strongest for them being that flexible. (108 words)