Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Opera Paralèlle’s “Les Enfants Terribles” is a Jean Cocteau novel-inspired multimedia cocktail of nearly equal parts opera, filmed images, ballet, spoken word, and live piano accompaniment. Plot lines derivative of the 1972 Franco Zeffirelli film, “Sister Sun, Brother Moon,” and ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
Eve Mutso defines her work “Unknown” is the following words:
“It is said that creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
I sometimes see life itself as a performance full of uncertainties. The roles we play ...
Films from Poland, the UK, Italy, the USSR, Japan, Sweden, and the USA.
Renata PoltFeaturesSan Francisco,
Father's Day, wedding day, graduation--all important June occasions. And, of course, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, June 1st to 4th. This year, as in the 21 preceding years, the festival will feature a ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
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Liss Fain and her dancers, Sonia Dale, Katherine Hawthone, Megan Kurashige, Shannon Kurashige and Sarah Dionne Woods-Ladue have created an evening of story telling and dance within a unique setting at Z Space. The stories are ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
You will have to make a choice. There should be no dilly-dallying, told the audience Kyle Abraham at the beginning of his premiere, “Dearest Home.” You should either watch his new work with the headsets and ...
Prize-winning dancer and San Francisco's only Gaga instructor.
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
James Graham is a dancer/performer/choreographer/teacher and a consistently rising star in the Bay Area’s dance community. He received an Izzie (Isadora Duncan Award) for Outstanding Achievement in Performance as an Individual for an "Entire Season" (2013-2014) This was the same ...
Michael McDonaghMusicSan Francisco,
What do we expect when we go to hear a pianist play a famous dead composer's work? Do we want a radically "new " take on it, or do we want it served straight? And if that composer ...
ACT presents an excerpt from Peter Brook's nine-hour "Mahabharata"
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
“Battlefield,” prodigious director Peter Brook’s unusual new offering, presents a small portion of the “Mahabharata," the ancient Sanskrit epic poem about the disastrous war between two branches of a large ruling family.
In 1987, Brook famously ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Christopher Wheeldon’s co-production with Dutch National Ballet of “Cinderella” is dance theater, conceived of in that genre’s finest tradition, but by no means limited by it. A marvelous scenic design team headed by costume and set designer Julian Crouch, ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
Dancers often collaborate with musicians as composers, accompanists and performers. We have seen many dances accompanied by pianists onstage, and sometimes small chamber groups. But Jaroslow/Mezzacappa’s “Touch Bass” brings three bass instruments together with three ...
