REMARKABLE CAREER = GREAT BALLET WITCH
A veteran ballet dancer in her late 70s still stealing the show as the malevolent Witch casting spells and curses? My apologies to the ever-youthful roster of S.F. Ballet performers, but this “La Sylphide” show and its whole bubbling cauldron of vermin belong to Anita Paciotti, hook, line and sinker. I had first encountered her as the sole leading lady of the newborn Oakland Ballet’s precarious venture “Hansel und Gretel” in 1964, 58 years ago—-then playing Gretel rather than the…