“Touchy Subjects” …”Keith Hennessy told Scott Wells that he didn’t like the gay joke in Wells dance. Scott said, okay….
Dance
Menlowe Ballet, Michael Lowe, Artistic Director (formerly of the Oakland Ballet), celebrated five years of its founding with a lively…
. Contemporary Dance: Past and Present Christy Funsch and her remarkable group of dancers, musicians, actors, and lighting designers have…
It has been a good fifteen years since I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the inside of Oakland’s Paramount Theatre,…
“The Embodiment Project,” directed by Nicole Klaymoon, brings together dancers, singers, actors and lecturers to focus on the very contemporary…
Ritual Exuberance Krissy Keefer, the director of Dance Brigade has staged “The Great Liberation…” at least twice since 1999. This…
Past/Present Deborah Hay “belongs to a group of choreographers who were behind the Judson Church Movement in New York in…
“The Bridge Project: Ten Artists Respond to Locus” is an elaborate and somewhat heady vehicle for a multidisciplinary exchange of…
Q: In ten years of running the festival, what have you learned? A: I’ve Learned to plan both more and…
James Sofranko, San Francisco Ballet soloist, will introduce his new company, SFDanceworks, to Bay Area audiences, June 23—25, at ODC…
Joanna Berman’s staging of Val Caniparoli’s “Hamlet and Ophelia” was just right. Caniparoli has a gift for perspective. He tends…
Seeing Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company is like watching a newborn foal rise on spindly legs to find its footing. Young…
Alonzo King’s “Sand” premiered in this program. It’s redundant to speak of breakthroughs when it comes to King’s choreography. With…