Ballet has its stable of warhorses (Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty), but in every company’s manger, there’s just one…
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Whether it’s the Teutonic Giselle peasant girl or the Indian sub-continent’s Nikia temple dancer, the plight of the village virgin…
Stars of American Ballet touched down in Philadelphia October 18-19, a co-presentation of the Annenberg Center/NextMove. The ‘Stars’ tour conceived…
The shock of the unexpected. This is what viewers have come to expect from Sankai Juku – formidable tensions and…
Jess Curtis is an award-winning dancemaker and performer who has created and performed multidisciplinary works in the U.S and Europe. In…
Too many seasons have slipped by without my having caught up with Smuin Contemporary Ballet. It was heartening to see…
Mark Morris’ understated barefoot “Mozart Dances” (2006) launched the 2019-20 season for Cal Performances this weekend with three separate piano…
Even if your beat is strictly limited to ballet, you can’t write about dance in the San Francisco Bay Area…
The pieces chosen for the opener and closer of this year’s Stern Grove San Francisco Ballet program proved the best…
The Teatro Massimo Βallet (TMB) company is one of the remaining state-subsidised ballet companies in Italy that together with La…
The idea was to review SFDanceworks Season 4, but as I left the Cowell Theater that sits on the dock…
“Movement itself is the weaving, gathering threads into fabric, they dive into each other, a pool of pools, swimming through…