Christopher Wheeldon gives us a complex “Cinderella,” absent even a soupçon of “The Cinderella Complex” that feminist therapists pride themselves…
Toba Singer
Toba Singer, author of “Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet” (University Press of Florida 2013), and “First Position: a Century of Ballet Artists” (Praeger 2007), writes for international dance journals and websites, and has served as an advisor to the San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design. She was the University Press of Florida author representative at the 2013 Miami International Book Fair. “Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet” was nominated for the Latin American Student Association Bryce Award, the de la Torre Research and Dance Scholars Award, and the Commonwealth Club California Book Award.
Whether it’s the Teutonic Giselle peasant girl or the Indian sub-continent’s Nikia temple dancer, the plight of the village virgin…
Salvador’s torso bears a vertical scar. We come upon him (Antonio Banderas) sequestering himself, holding his shallow breath while his…
Jess Curtis is an award-winning dancemaker and performer who has created and performed multidisciplinary works in the U.S and Europe. In…
Too many seasons have slipped by without my having caught up with Smuin Contemporary Ballet. It was heartening to see…
If you have a nose for power, drawing a deep inspirational breath from the approachable majesty of nature, the long…
The Tijuana [Mexico] Cultural Center merits a far more titillating acronym than CECUT! It stands out as one of my…
Even if your beat is strictly limited to ballet, you can’t write about dance in the San Francisco Bay Area…
The pieces chosen for the opener and closer of this year’s Stern Grove San Francisco Ballet program proved the best…
The idea was to review SFDanceworks Season 4, but as I left the Cowell Theater that sits on the dock…
Again with the Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh! This time it’s not a movie version of a work by the bard, but…
“Shostakovich Trilogy” is an evening-long tour de force by Russian-born choreographer Alexei Ratmansky. It’s outstanding for its theme: the tumultuous…
Diablo Ballet reaches beyond its San Francisco bedroom community setting to recruit dancers from a host of backgrounds, both personal…