Go to any San Francisco Ballet show and, near the back of the War Memorial Opera House, you can often see young students of the San Francisco Ballet School lurking in the standing room, garnering inspiration from the company's performances. In early 2001, somewhere in the darkness, that's where Kayoko Everhart fell in love with Nacho Duato's intimate and emotional "Without Words."
"I was crazy about it," says Everhart, now 24. "That was my first experience with a Nacho ballet and I absolutely loved it."
But little did she dream that, years later, she would return to the city as a member of Duato's own Compañía Nacional de Danza, when San Francisco Performances presents the company's San Francisco debut this week at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Read more on the SF Chronicle site.
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