If choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris and Twyla Tharp show us where dance may be going, the great Russians: Fokine, Massine, Balanchine, show us where it has been. But before any of them there was Marius Petipa. In ...
Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded by former New York City Ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell following the Martin Luther King assassination. His goal was to provide opportunity to young African-American dancers, often excluded from mainstream companies. DTH has grown ...
Japanese modern dance has been equated for many years with the movement aesthetic called butoh, an outgrowth of the devastation of World War II. It is a bare-bones, stark form of dance--more like theater, really, but probably called "dance" ...
Ballet in four acts by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky New production choreographed by Helgi Tomasson (after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) Orchestra conducted by Martin West War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco World premiere, February 21, 2009 (program continues, with alternating ...
Hin und zerück (There and Back) Review: Danceground Keriac Benefit performance February 28, 2009 Keriac Studio, San Francisco Hin Und Zerück is an opera by Hindemith that goes half way through and then reverses. I was reminded of ...
Hãlau o Keikiali`I is a Hawaiian Cultural and Dance Group based in San Francisco since 1994. Their goal is to educate the general public about Hawaiian Culture, with its traditional customs, values, and protocols. On paper this may sound a ...
Over the years a number of choreographers and performance artists have looked to the disciplines of science as a point of departure for creative expression on the stage. Recently Liz Lerman explored the ethics of human genetics research in “Ferocious ...
