Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Is classical ballet dead? A good way to test this patient’s viability is to stage Helgi Tomasson’s “Haffner Symphony” in an outdoor setting, where living things abound in the lush splendor of orange poppy-fringed trees and meadows. See how it ...
Michael McDonaghMusicSan Francisco,
President Trump proudly extolled the virtues of western civilization in a speech he gave in Warsaw, Poland, in 2017, but colonization, which is one of its biggest and sometimes most virulent by-products continues to drive it, as ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
In the first scholarly museum exhibit to use hats and the millinery trade as a metaphor for the progression of art and women during the height of the Impressionist era, (from start of the Third French Republic until the outbreak ...
West Coast Premiere
37th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
Who is Bobbi Jene?
Most dance documentaries are produced on the heels of a landmark in a dancer’s career. Usually that milestone comes somewhere between the middle or end of a long career--the completion of a major body of ...
Renata PoltFilmSan Francisco,
When I wrote an article on Jewish film festivals for Hadassah magazine 14 years ago, the San Francisco Jewish film festival was the oldest and the largest anywhere.
Of course it's still the oldest; and--guess what?--it's still the largest.
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David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
A choreographer’s anniversary is always a tricky subject. It would be easier for everyone, including the choreographer, if the Mayor would just present him or her with a key to the city. The pressure to create something knew ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
In the works of Christopher Bruce, there is never the slightest whiff of the counterfeit. Pieces he creates tend to circumnavigate a family of themes whose touchpoints include abuse of power, loss, or simple-seeming but significant transformations—comic or tragic--within a ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
From only 45 remarkable paintings in this astounding exhibition of the important Norwegian Modernist artist Edvard Munch (1863 –1944), one can appreciate his robust 60 years as a working artist. Throughout his career, which spanned from ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
A cross between a musical profile and a rock and roll show, Randy Johnson’s “A Night with Janis Joplin” is undoubtedly entertaining. The best aspect of the evening is Kacee Clanton, who does a fabulous Janis. She has the deep ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
ODC has sponsored the “Walking Distance Dance Festival” June 2-10 to “offer us the opportunity to experience the juxtaposition of different choreographic voices.” (Quote from program notes by Marie Tollon, ODC Writer-In-Residence.) The pieces are short (usually one-hour works) that ...
