Mostly Modernity Three contemporary choreographers take on Mozart in Boston The last three contemporary dance performances I saw in Boston featured scores by Mozart. One supposes that if the presenters (respectively, Celebrity Series of Boston, CRASHarts, and Boston Ballet) had ...
Paul Taylor is the best of contemporary American choreographers and his company among the finest groups of dancers anywhere. Nothing in the current San Francisco engagement has changed that opinion. Taylor, now 70, has just completed his 115th dance ...
The San Francisco Ballet concludes its repertory season with a program that aptly describes the company today. There were three works: a Balanchine classic, a dance by a master choreographer of today, and the work of a new choreographer. ...
Cancel those airline tickets! Smuin Ballets San Francisco circles the globe in its third program of the spring season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Audiences can visit Russia, Japan and Mexico – with a brief musical side ...
Perhaps it was the narrowness of the drab high school-like theater stage, that made the opening piece, “Jangle: Four Hungarian Dances”, appear a bit more like musical theater then it normally would. Or, maybe the peasant style costumes added to ...
The San Francisco Ballet's third program of the season brought the company premiere of Nacho Duato's Without Words set to an arrangement of Schubert songs (minus the voice) for cello and piano. First created in 1998 for American Ballet ...
From esteemed Japanese director Hiroshi Koike and his dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara comes “Ship In A View”, an ethereal spectacle that made its Bay Area premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on February 19th. Drawing on memories of ...
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 ...
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, ...
Planet Brooks Brain Brooks Moving Company again again Dance Theater Workshop October 7, 2006 If you are still in the doldrums about Pluto being voted out of the galaxy, have I got a new planet for ...
