The idea was to review SFDanceworks Season 4, but as I left the Cowell Theater that sits on the dock…
Dance
“Movement itself is the weaving, gathering threads into fabric, they dive into each other, a pool of pools, swimming through…
“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…
The seven-year-old Los Angeles dance troupe BODYTRAFFIC careened into Philly for three performances at the Annenberg Center last weekend, were…
Five soldiers are waiting; Cadet Luke Bradshaw casually adjusts a transistor radio playing mostly static interference and portions of a…
Kun-Yang Lin’s journey as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher began in his native country of Taiwan over 25 years ago,…
Following the holiday run of Rudolf Nureyev’s Cinderella in December, the Paris Opera Ballet season offered another classic by its…
Few can stride across a floor, arms raised to usher in festivity, as convincingly as Val Caniparoli, San Francisco Ballet’s…
It’s informative to read in ODC Artistic Director Brenda Way’s program notes that motivation on her part for mounting Kate…
To usher in the new year, and not just any year–2019 marks the 350th anniversary of the institution’s inception under…
The much-anticipated premiere of Jessica Lang Dance in San Francisco arrived bittersweetly. For the Bay Area’s first real glimpse of…