Whether onstage or off, Joanna Berman has always exuded a generous warmth. It was at the San Francisco Ballet where she drew in audiences in roles from Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty" to the sassy girl-next-door in "Sandpaper Ballet." And you feel it when she takes your hand and fixes you with a limpid gaze as if you're the most important person in the world at that moment. Now, a decade after she retired from the Ballet, Berman is back in the Bay Area after a two-year sojourn to Canada, and she's bringing the benefits of that warmth and experience to a new group of dancers as she stages a duet from Christopher Wheeldon's "Mercurial Manoeuvres" for Diablo Ballet's performances at the Shadelands Arts Center in Walnut Creek this weekend.
A balancing act in world of the ballet
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