San Francisco Ballet offered something for the funny bone and something for the heart in its fourth program offering of the 2009 season. First the heart. Antony Tudor’s 1936 masterpiece “Jardin aux Lilas” (“Lilac Garden”) stepped out on the San ...
Ohad Naharin , the artistic director and choreographer for Batsheva Dance Company of Israel, is, in a word, a genius. The dance he unleashes in “Three”, performed in San Francisco Performances engagement October 26, looks like the work of no ...
Houston Ballet's annual Jubilee presented a sampling of repertory snippets and shorter full-length works designed to whet the appetites of ballet lovers and resistors alike. The piece that reminded all of us why, no matter how bad it gets out ...
Most things in life suffer from an excess of anticipation. But the long-awaited, much ballyhooed visit of the Paris Opera Ballet to San Francisco exceeded anything you might have expected. Sponsored by the home team, which travels to France ...
Balanchine and the Bible, not to mention composer Serge Prokofiev and the great painter Georges Rouault – how could it miss? And, in truth, The Prodigal Son has been knocking them out since its 1929 premiere with Diaghilev’s famed ...
Many choreographers are adept at placing bodies in space but few besides the late George Balanchine have moved them to music as does Mark Morris. Particularly in his 1988 tour de force L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato there ...
An Evening With The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Divining/Revelations (1986) DVD Music: Grace is danced in part to Duke Ellington's Come Sunday which is included in The Best Of The Duke Ellington Centennial ...
Making its second appearance in San Francisco, the Eifman Ballet, which first appeared in the U.S. in 1998, has brought its production Russian Hamlet by the company�s founder Boris Eifman, who is responsible for everything in this production except ...
Michael Smuin, who was director of the San Francisco Ballet from 1973 until 1985, later established his own company, now celebrating its fifth anniversary season. Smuin Ballets/SF is a company expressing the singular artistic vision of its choreographer ...
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 ...
