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 ...
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 ...
