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Article: Lucia Lacarra: Spain's Gift to San Francisco.
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 1999
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Spain's Gift to San Francisco Lucia Lacarra has become an instant favorite at San Francisco Ballet.
Lucia Lacarra has, quite unintentionally, become something of a tease at San Francisco Ballet. The Spanish ballerina arrived in 1997 as the company's newest star, fresh from triumphs in her home company, Roland Petit's National Ballet of Marseilles. Cast for virtually every first night of SFB's repertory programs and scheduled for several important premieres, Lacarra was a quick, tantalizing vision that left everyone wanting more. She danced, conquered--and then suffered a stress fracture.
By being sidelined for most of the spring 1998 season, she whetted ...