Toba SingerSan Francisco,
According to Lines Ballet’s current program at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the propelled heart locates a voice for the body in motion. Artistic Director Alonzo King is famous ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
“Simply put Preludes and Fugues is the world as it ought to be, Yowzie as it is. The Fanfares celebrate both.”--Twyla Tharp, 2015
Twyla Tharp's much anticipated 50th Anniversary Tour opened at Zellerbach Hall this ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
“Golden in time, cities under the sand. Power, ideas, and beauty fading in everyone’s hand…” Joni Mitchell
A stream of sand falls from heaven like smoke descending to earth. It continuously cascades in ...
St. Petersburg's renowned company stars in Alexei Ratmansky's updated production, played by an orchestra worthy of Prokofiev's score.
Suzanne WeissSan Francisco,
You know the drill. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl loses slipper, boy finds girl and she gets, not only a husband, but a complete pair of shoes.
Everybody’s favorite fairy tale came to graceful and exuberant life ...
Joanna G. HarrisSan Francisco,
Ernest Delight
Under the direction of Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, the Black Choreographers Festival has been mentoring, training and presenting black choreographers since 2005. This most ...
Michael Wade SimpsonSanta Fe,
The first dance Twyla Tharp choreographed for her new modern dance company in 1965 was called, “Tank Dive.” Tharp walked out in a pair of heeled shoes and vigorously hurled a yo-yo toward the floor as Petula Clark’s pop hit, ...
Michael Wade SimpsonSanta Fe,
Every little girl should have a chance to stomp. Emmy Grimm, known onstage as “La Emi,” has been dancing flamenco since she was 3. Her mentor is Maria Benitez, an internationally known powerhouse of a dancer, ...
Donya Feuer, Director
Gunnar Kallstrom, Photography
Toba SingerSan Francisco,
“Feet, feet, feet!” is the universal battle cry. Anyone who has taken ballet or modern dance class, and has heard it shouted from the front of the studio knows that first, last ...
The virtuoso dancers of Seiwert's company brought expressive dimensions to three works.
Joanna G. HarrisSan Francisco,
Amy Seiwert brought three amazing pieces to the ODC Theater for this engagement: “Traveling Alone” (2012); “Starting Over at the End” (2015 — a collaboration with ODC’s KT Nelson); and “Back To" (2015). All three works displayed the virtuosity of ...
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 ...
