Larry Campbell
The American premiere of Joachin Schlomer’s La Guerra d’Amore: Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi (The War of Love: Bellicose and Amorous Madrigals) is the first time an evening-length work by this choreographer has been presented in this country. Previously, he ...
Suzanne Weiss
Fasten your seat belts! The Car Man just drove into town and it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Matthew Bourne, the British choreographer/director who set the dance world on its ear with his gender-bending Swan Lake a ...
Suzanne Weiss
The Pygmies of the Central African rain forest may be small in stature but they make a mighty sound. The music of these primitive people, representing one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on Planet Earth, is central to their ...
Suzanne Weiss
For a long time the embargo on Cuban goods deprived people on this side of the water of more than cigars. From 1979 to 1998, some of the finest dancers in the world were not allowed to perform in ...
Larry Campbell
The prospect of seeing a modern dance company from Portugal is like opening a gift from a distant relative. What will it contain? Portugal lies outside the mainstream of European culture. Other than Great Britain, which shares a strong ...
Suzanne Weiss
It’s not easy being green, as Kermit the Frog will tell you and Platee, the protagonist of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s 18th Century comic opera learns it the hard way. An unattractive nymph, who resembles something you might have dissected in ...
Suzanne Weiss
Artistic director Kevin McKenzie has wrought a renaissance in the 60-plus year old American Ballet Theatre which had lost some of its former luster following the Baryshnikov regime in the 80s. Exciting, good-looking young dancers and new works from ...
Larry Campbell
Some of the Gershwin music: Orchestral Works & Piano Solos Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Gershwin Songbook Someone to Watch over Me: Songs of George Gershwin Susannah McCorkle The Ultimate Collection G. Gershwin Gershwin Standard Time: The George Gershwin Centennial ...
Mixed repertory: “Prism” by Helgi Tomasson, “Diving Into the Lilacs” (world premiere) by Yuri Possokhov, and “The Four Temperaments” by George Balanchine. Orchestra conducted by Martin West War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco January 27, 2009 (program continues through February ...
Joanna G. Harris
Thanks to Kendra Kimbrough Barnes and Laura E. Ellis, festival diretors, the Bay Area continues to celebrate the annual Black Choreographers Festival. These women, and the talented artists and performers they have gathered, have produced an amazing series of events, ...
