Most things in life suffer from an excess of anticipation. But the long-awaited, much ballyhooed visit of the Paris Opera…
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Balanchine and the Bible, not to mention composer Serge Prokofiev and the great painter Georges Rouault – how could it…
Many choreographers are adept at placing bodies in space but few besides the late George Balanchine have moved them to…
An Evening With The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Divining/Revelations (1986) DVD Music: Grace is danced in part to Duke…
Making its second appearance in San Francisco, the Eifman Ballet, which first appeared in the U.S. in 1998, has brought…
Michael Smuin, who was director of the San Francisco Ballet from 1973 until 1985, later established his own company, now…
Mostly Modernity Three contemporary choreographers take on Mozart in Boston The last three contemporary dance performances I saw in Boston…
Paul Taylor is the best of contemporary American choreographers and his company among the finest groups of dancers anywhere. Nothing…
The San Francisco Ballet concludes its repertory season with a program that aptly describes the company today. There were three…
Cancel those airline tickets! Smuin Ballets San Francisco circles the globe in its third program of the spring season at…
Perhaps it was the narrowness of the drab high school-like theater stage, that made the opening piece, “Jangle: Four Hungarian…
The San Francisco Ballet’s third program of the season brought the company premiere of Nacho Duato’s Without Words set to…
From esteemed Japanese director Hiroshi Koike and his dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara comes “Ship In A View”, an ethereal spectacle…
Mixed repertory: “Prism” by Helgi Tomasson, “Diving Into the Lilacs” (world premiere) by Yuri Possokhov, and “The Four Temperaments” by…