Ernest Delight Under the direction of Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, the Black…
Dance
The first dance Twyla Tharp choreographed for her new modern dance company in 1965 was called, “Tank Dive.” Tharp walked…
Every little girl should have a chance to stomp. Emmy Grimm, known onstage as “La Emi,” has been…
“Feet, feet, feet!” is the universal battle cry. Anyone who has taken ballet or modern dance…
Amy Seiwert brought three amazing pieces to the ODC Theater for this engagement: “Traveling Alone” (2012); “Starting Over at the…
Making a ballet to a single piece of music is so last century. Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo makes playlist dances—he creates…
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Panama Pacific International Festival (which took place even then in the same Palace of…
Fort Mason (setting of the 2015 San Francisco International Arts Festival) is a beautiful site jutting out into the San…
By appealing directly to Bay Area ballet-goers, Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley Artistic Director José Manuel Carreño, with…
The simplicity of the three-theme Prokofiev score can beguile us into believing that Helgi Tomasson’s “Romeo and Juliet,” running…
“Swimmer,” the latest work by Yuri Possokhov, San Francisco Ballet’s choreographer in residence, looks more like dance theater than true…
Program C, performed during Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s annual residency at Cal Berkeley, featured three dances first performed…
With 142 dances under his dance belt, produced within a 61-year career, seeing any of Paul Taylor’s dances is always…
San Francisco Ballet danced Liam Scarlett’s “Hummingbird,” this season for the second year running, the piece having been set on…