Watching the creation of a new work on Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Michael Wade SimpsonSanta Fe,
Making a ballet to a single piece of music is so last century. Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo makes playlist dances—he creates sound collages, sometimes disparate mixes of music which inform the movement for him. “Then I go into the studio and ...
The beat goes on (along with the drumming) for this eclectic sampling of companies from around the world.
Joanna G. HarrisSan Francisco,
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Panama Pacific International Festival (which took place even then in the same Palace of Fine Arts), the Ethnic Dance Festival, now in its 37th year, presented its usual widely varied program of music and ...
A glimpse at what troupes outside the Bay Area are offering.
Joanna G. HarrisSan Francisco,
Fort Mason (setting of the 2015 San Francisco International Arts Festival) is a beautiful site jutting out into the San Francisco Bay. Boats sail by, birds fly, islands and mountains loom in the distance. And then the fog comes in.
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Toba SingerMountain View,
By appealing directly to Bay Area ballet-goers, Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley Artistic Director José Manuel Carreño, with help from Chief Executive Officer, Alan Hineline, and Interim Director of Development Millicent Powers, dodged the depredations of ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
The simplicity of the three-theme Prokofiev score can beguile us into believing that Helgi Tomasson’s “Romeo and Juliet,” running at warp speed to conclude before the accomplished musicians go on overtime, loses complexity, much in the way Cinderella ...
Wading into the current fascination with 1960s culture, "Swimmer" dives and bobs along, neither drowning in excess nor floating as a completely coherent work.
San Francisco,
“Swimmer,” the latest work by Yuri Possokhov, San Francisco Ballet’s choreographer in residence, looks more like dance theater than true ballet. In the style of Martha Clarke, the piece draws on the panoply of modern stage technology — projections, lighting ...
“Uprising” (2006)
“Suspended Women” (2000)
“After The Rain Pas de Deux” (2005)
“Revelations” (1960)
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
Program C, performed during Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s annual residency at Cal Berkeley, featured three dances first performed by the company in 2014. This program marked the increasing inclusion of guest choreographers, a few West Coast Premieres, ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
With 142 dances under his dance belt, produced within a 61-year career, seeing any of Paul Taylor’s dances is always a combination of a modern dance history lesson and retrospective. Programs C was no exception with works created from 1961 ...
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
San Francisco Ballet danced Liam Scarlett’s “Hummingbird,” this season for the second year running, the piece having been set on the company last season. The following is an interview with Scarlett, conducted via email in April, 2015.
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A year after its West Coast premiere, Ratmansky's homage to the Russian composer continues to excite dancers and audiences alike.
San Francisco,
When San Francisco Ballet undertook “Shostakovich Trilogy” in 2014, many observers held their breath. Could the company pull off this evening-length work by in-demand choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, the artist-in-residence at American Ballet Theater (which got to premiere the piece, even ...
