Smuin Contemporary Ballet is currently bringing Dance Series 1 to stages around the San Francisco Bay Area, in Mountain View,…
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.
O Canada! (specifically Quebec) Your “Passengers” gifts us with the very best in circus arts. Company top-drawer bona fides explain…
“This Much I Know” bewilders its public by immersing it in the broth of cognitive illusion. Three major plotlines and…
It doesn’t take long for a ballet student to grasp that dance is a bundle of contradictions: you go up…
Evelyn Reed, the Marxist anthropologist author of “Women’s Evolution,” was debating the existence of cannibalism in Africa, when she took…
To justify passing herself off as white, Clare Bellew (Ruth Negga) observes that “everyone is passing as something or another.”…
How far would you go to avenge the death of your best friend following the trauma of gang rape? Screenwriter…
Academic “Wokery” undergoes top drawer peer review in the new Netflix Original Series created by Amanda Peet and Amanda Wyman….
Program 03’s curator has posed several challenges as well as questions for the reviewer. Three contemporary story ballets overload one…
It’s rare to see a Balanchine-choreographed story ballet, let alone one featuring a plotline as serpentine as Shakespeare’s impishly comic…
Peabody Award winner Abby Ginzberg’s documentary film, “Waging Change,” tells a compelling story exposing the sordid working conditions in the…
In the unlikely event that there’s an overabundance of merriment in your life under COVID, and nobody in your pod…
Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas commissioned Julia Adam to locate her “Nutcracker Suite” in a hotel suite—San Francisco’s Hotel…
The documentary film, “Dos Hermanos/Two Brothers,” captures the personal and professional relationship of two Cuban-born brothers and award-winning musicians, Ilmar…