There are two ballets to talk about here, Artifact Suite, by William Forsythe (seen on Program 1), and Yuri Possokhov’s new Firebird (Program 2). Both were splendid. The other four ballets on the first two programs of the season may ...
Name recognition did not sell tickets to Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on June 7. Indeed, the half-empty house was actually watching a performance of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Dachenko Theatre Ballet. Try putting ...
As the Houston Rodeo rolled out of town, it may have seemed that the gay rodeo rolled in with the arrival of Joe Goode Performance Group. When it comes to sexuality, America seems to be as 2010 as it is ...
Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco February 9-10, 2007 Denied their drums, enslaved Africans in the Americas reinvent- ed their spiritual dance traditions as a soulful art form that white authorities ...
Society for the Performing Arts Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Houston, TX Tania Pérez-Salas spins images to make dances. This is not to say her movement isn’t memorable; it is. But the take-home dreamscape of her work lies in its ...
Works by Mark Morris: “A Garden,” “Joyride,” and “Sandpaper Ballet” Orchestra conducted by David LaMarche and Martin West (for “Joyride”) War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco March 13, 2009 (program continues, with alternating casts, through March 24) http://www.sfballet.org/performancestickets/2009season/program5.asp Mark ...
Martha Graham Dance Company Popejoy Hall The New Mexico Center for the Performing Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico March 13, 2009 http://popejoypresents.com/ http://marthagraham.org/center/ http://clytemnestraproject.com/ It gets tricky keeping a dance company’s repertoire fresh when the one and only choreographer died ...
TooT & Noces Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal Precision, energy, athleticism, humor, and a fine sense of graphic design are the hallmarks of Gradimir Pankov's Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. In 2000 the Macedonian, Pankov, ...
The Paul Taylor Dance Company has an astoundingly busy tour schedule which means that they very well may be dancing somewhere near you this year. If so, you won't want to miss them. This company showcases the beautiful, intelligent, ...
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 ...
