Opera Paralèlle’s “Les Enfants Terribles” is a Jean Cocteau novel-inspired multimedia cocktail of nearly equal parts opera, filmed images, ballet,…
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.
Christopher Wheeldon’s co-production with Dutch National Ballet of “Cinderella” is dance theater, conceived of in that genre’s finest tradition, but…
Helgi Tomasson created “Trio” in 2011. It proceeds from a sixth sense of what Tchaikovsky’s piece “Souvenir” proposed about the…
You know you’re in for a treat when among the opening scenes of a film is one where two mature…
My father broke with the religion of his birth, Judaism, when he was 14. Three factors drove his apostasy, two…
Dissemble: (per the OED) Conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs. Dissemble: A word I have never understood. Why…
An argument favoring bilingual education: When a child whose first language is not yet well-established is placed in a classroom…
In late February, I had a chance to sit down with playwright Lisa Loomer (“The Waiting Room,” “Girl Interrupted”) to…
Stagers Bart Cook and Maria Calegari return as Balanchine Trust emissaries to transmit the particularities signaling George Balanchine’s momentous break…
Sparks flew at Friday evening’s San Francisco Ballet performance of Liam Scarlett’s “Frankentstein.” Unfortunately, they produced more light than heat….
Raoul Peck takes a unique approach to documenting the meditations of the late Harlem-born author James Baldwin, who lived as…
Diablo Ballet presented a program of four works. Two were pas deux excerpts, short in duration. The first of these…
Using the device of a play within a movie, Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) this time brings us a whodunit set…