“All across the nation such a strange vibration, People in motion, There’s a whole generation with a new explanation, People…
Dance
In July, BalletX kicked their return to in-person performances with a program of premieres in the open-air Mann Center in…
Opening weekend at the 2021 Vail Dance Festival featured torrential rain, real dancers in a real (outdoor) theater with a…
Near the end of Jerome Robbins’ 1969 piece, “Dances at a Gathering,” the six dancers begin to merely walk, after…
The Pennsylvania Ballet is the largest dance company in Philadelphia and as most of the other smaller companies have been…
Program 03’s curator has posed several challenges as well as questions for the reviewer. Three contemporary story ballets overload one…
BalletX has been confronted with an industry shutdown of theaters and venues with a slate of specific limitations to work…
It’s rare to see a Balanchine-choreographed story ballet, let alone one featuring a plotline as serpentine as Shakespeare’s impishly comic…
Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas commissioned Julia Adam to locate her “Nutcracker Suite” in a hotel suite—San Francisco’s Hotel…
“Move,” a new, five-part documentary on Netflix which began streaming on October 23, offers portraits of a half-dozen working dance…
James: You spoke about Joffrey having been cutting edge. Is today’s Joffrey in step with the original company? Toba: It’s…
When the Paul Taylor Dance Company last appeared in San Francisco in 2017, it was just months before the dance…
We are inclined to follow Johnny Eliasen anywhere. In his staging of this special delivery rendering of “Études,” our devotee…