“Ernesto,” a fictionalized account of a true story, opens in Tokyo, where a team of Cubans headed by Ernesto Che…
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.
On a rainy night in 1980, Robert Shafran’s father realized he’d left his umbrella behind. He and his wife were…
Gabriel Ledón is Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company Cuarto Fractal, and has also been Executive Director of Brazeros…
“¡Socorro!” in Spanish means “Help!” of the kind that begs for succor, comfort, a poultice for one’s wounds. If the…
It’s a dominoes game of unrequited love that begins with a deathbed alarm sounded by the household staff at the…
At the San Francisco Ballet Gala earlier this year, Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson predicted that the Unbound Festival would locate…
When my son was six and a student at Mountaineer Montessori School, he learned the Shaker hymn, “’Simple Gifts.” “I…
To mark its 85th anniversary, San Francisco Ballet added “Unbound,” to this year’s season, a series of four programs, A,…
For its yearly mixed rep program, English National Ballet brought an all-American barnburner of a lineup. William Forsythe, after a…
“There’s only one thing worse than being in a Robbins work, and that’s not being in one,” a veteran New…
“Until, Until, Until . . . is a play accompanied by a multi-media video installation. It’s an interrogation of the…
All three works on this evening’s program are locally sourced archived ballets. Those who have seen them in other seasons…
It is hard to name a work that creates otherworldliness all of one piece as does George Balanchine’s sky blue…