Fairy tales can come true; it can happen to you …especially if you’re in the audience at San Francisco Ballet’s lavish production of The Sleeping Beauty. First presented in St. Petersburg in 1890, this collaboration between Pytor Ilyitch ...
Visions of sugarplums beginning to clog up your head? The perfect antidote is Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut which is quickly becoming as much of a holiday tradition as department store Santas and Messiah singalongs. Created in 1991, televised ...
Joe Goode deserves to live. His Performance Group is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and if the average lifetime of a modern dance company is eleven months, you can bet that any group that stays together as long ...
Prepare For Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (1998), Steven Watson Cal Performances opened its season with the Mark Morris Dance Group performing the unusual double bill of Four Saints ...
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 ...
