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 ...
“Kagemi”, the new evening-length piece by Sankai Juku, the 31-year-old Japanese Butoh company touring the US, is about mirrors, water, and a lotus leaf carpet. It is also about white light, transcendance, and the fact that a 57-year-old dancer-choreographer has ...
Houston Ballet Houston Ballet launched its 37th season with 'Simple Elegance,' a trio of works that included two contemporary masters along with Stanton Welch's world premiere, Brigade. The title speaks to the clarity of thought of each ...
Falling, Rubies, Artifact Suite Afternoon of a Faun, Other Dances, Dybbuk, Glass Pieces Romeo & Juliet In the Night, Rush, Prism Dybbuk, Symphonic Variations, Lambarena Meistens Mozart, Concerto Grosso, Study in Motion, The Four Temperaments Reflections, Square Dance, Gross ...
The second program of the San Francisco Ballet season featured three premieres and a welcome revival, adding up to a very satisfying evening in the theater. Choreographer Val Caniparoli, whose career began as a dancer with the company, ...
"Nutcracker" Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World (2003), Jennifer Fisher Tis the season -- the season for Santa and Scrooge and those ubiquitous dancing nutcrackers. And, of all ...
Ballet: Carmina Burana Choreographer: Stanton Welch Dancer(s): Amy Fote and Connor Walsh Photographer: Drew Donovan Houston Ballet Jubilee of Dance: A Celebration of Movement December 1, 2006 Houston Ballet throws an on-stage dance bash ...
Program of various works by George Balanchine, Jorma Elo, William Forsythe, Yuri Possokhov, Helgi Tomasson, and Christopher Wheeldon Orchestra conducted by Martin West War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco January 21, 2009 http://www.sfballet.org/performancestickets/2009season.asp Whatever hard times loom, they were banished ...
