Gabriel Ledón is Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company Cuarto Fractal, and has also been Executive Director of Brazeros…
Dance
“¡Socorro!” in Spanish means “Help!” of the kind that begs for succor, comfort, a poultice for one’s wounds. If the…
Walking, stillness, head spins and one-armed balances. Emotion, b-boying, Philip Glass. When Cirque du Soleil and the Cirque Noveau movement…
At the San Francisco Ballet Gala earlier this year, Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson predicted that the Unbound Festival would locate…
To mark its 85th anniversary, San Francisco Ballet added “Unbound,” to this year’s season, a series of four programs, A,…
For its yearly mixed rep program, English National Ballet brought an all-American barnburner of a lineup. William Forsythe, after a…
This season marks the 50th Anniversary of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s return to Cal Performances. This sustained and…
Berlin – based dancer-choreographers Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez are partners onstage and off and their company Wang Ramirez has…
“There’s only one thing worse than being in a Robbins work, and that’s not being in one,” a veteran New…
How do they do it? The Joffrey Ballet has two simultaneous gigs in LA: the Gluck opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,”…
On an empty smoked-filled stage, Jacob O’Connell’s solo began the fifteen-part “Autobiography.” His movements were reptilian and articulate, his développé…
Company Wang Ramirez leaped across Berkeley Saturday evening with their in-the-buzz style of dance and livewire troupe. Its choreographers, Honji…
Netta Yerushalmy made a stunning San Francisco debut with an abridged version of her “Paramodernities.” This sophisticated six-part series will…