David E. MorenoBerkeley,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJASICbz3Gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfs-SEx1nCU
There is a room in Jonathon Young's mind created from trauma. It has an electrical box, a harsh fluorescent overhead industrial light, a wall phone, and a corner in which to hide and whimper; ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
Stagers Bart Cook and Maria Calegari return as Balanchine Trust emissaries to transmit the particularities signaling George Balanchine’s momentous break with traditional classical ballet to another generation of dancers. In three works, “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” “Prodigal Son,” and “Diamonds” ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
Sparks flew at Friday evening’s San Francisco Ballet performance of Liam Scarlett’s “Frankentstein.” Unfortunately, they produced more light than heat. By the end of the co-commission with London’s Royal Ballet, quantity turned to quality, and Vitor Luiz’s jolie-laid rendering of ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
Last Work (2015)
Batsheva Dance Company
By Ohad Naharin
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
February 15-17
Produced by S.F. Performances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTiq6uwYUo
A girl in a blue silk dress is running. Her long red ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
Whiz-bang choreographer and dancer James Graham just curated his 6th season of “Dance Lovers… duets by couples, crushes, and comrades.” It is his annual Valentine offering that allows husbands and wives, husbands and husbands, wives and wives, and just plane ...
Works by Marc Bamuthi Joseph,
Ibrahima Diouf, Phylicia Stroud and Deborah Vaughan
Joanna G. HarrisOakland,
The Black Choreographers Festival celebrated its 13th year by returning to the Malonga Casquelourd Center where it was performed in 2005. As Kendra Barnes, BCF co-producer suggests, ‘”it is like returning home.”
The unique program featured the special talents of ...
Joanna G. HarrisSan Francisco,
“…reestablish identity and place”
Nancy Karp and her company of six dancers have attempted a complex work, evoking “memory/place” as the title suggests. The three-part piece, accompanied by live music throughout, is complex, moving and often mystifying. Dealing with ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
Diablo Ballet presented a program of four works. Two were pas deux excerpts, short in duration. The first of these was from Christopher Wheeldon’s “Mercurial Manoeuvres,” itself a bit of a maneuver within a maneuver, given the eleventh-hour ...
A revival of a Lucinda Childs/John Adams collaboration in honor of the composer's 70th birthday
David E. MorenoBerkeley,
Cal Performances, at UC Berkeley, just celebrated minimalist composer John Adams’ 70th birthday. It did so with a revival of “Available Light” –-a 1983 collaboration with Lucinda Childs and Frank Gehry. Adams was only 37 when Childs selected him to ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
At intermission after Alexei Ratmansky’s “Seven Sonatas,” I overheard a sleekly coiffed and outfitted Gen-Xer turn to her companion and say, “That reminded me of when I was a little girl and had a jewelry box with a ballerina on ...
