Compagnie Tchétché is a contemporary dance company from Abidjan, Ivory Coast founded by Béatrice Kombé in 1997 to “show that…
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The first program of the new San Francisco Ballet season really takes the cake. Not chocolate or vanilla but Hans…
Lin Hwai-min has created a dance company in Taiwan that is almost shockingly esoteric. Much more stripped-down and anti-narrative than…
"It’s like a truffle," I enthused to The Beautiful Companion at intermission of the Mark Morris Dance Group performance in…
Alchemy and Ghosts redevelop, (Death Valley) Brian Rogers The Chocolate Factory, NYC through February 28, 2009 http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org/home.html Doug Varone Dance…
Some of the music from the programs: Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is included on: Rattle Conducts Britten Biber’s Passacaglia for…
There are two ballets to talk about here, Artifact Suite, by William Forsythe (seen on Program 1), and Yuri Possokhov’s…
Name recognition did not sell tickets to Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on…
As the Houston Rodeo rolled out of town, it may have seemed that the gay rodeo rolled in with the…
Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco February 9-10, 2007 Denied their…
Society for the Performing Arts Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Houston, TX Tania Pérez-Salas spins images to make dances. This is…
Works by Mark Morris: “A Garden,” “Joyride,” and “Sandpaper Ballet” Orchestra conducted by David LaMarche and Martin West (for “Joyride”)…
Martha Graham Dance Company Popejoy Hall The New Mexico Center for the Performing Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico March 13, 2009…
TooT & Noces Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal Precision, energy, athleticism, humor, and a fine sense of graphic design…