Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Alonzo King’s “Sand” premiered in this program. It’s redundant to speak of breakthroughs when it comes to King’s choreography. With each new season and collaboration, there’s an epiphany and the refinements that make it sing its name. It usually originates ...
Celebrating Principal Dancers Joan Boada, Pascal Molat, and Gennadi Nedvigin
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
They call themselves “The Three Musketeers” because they have traveled a long road together at San Francisco Ballet, and before SFB, with Jeunes Ballets de France. The first one picked up the second to arrive at San ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Coney Island’s Cyclone was the scariest ride in Kings County (the jurisdiction more popularly known as Brooklyn), until 1960, when New York City fathers built something scarier: the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (the BQE). In the 1953 film “The Little Fugitive, we ...
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Behind the white picket fence is a home steeped in San Francisco history. The sellers state that at one time the house was owned by the grandparents of Beach Blanket Babylon creator Steve Silver. These current ...
Toba SingerTheaterSan Francisco,
God descends from the heavens to San Francisco’s Tenderloin Golden Gate Theater to announce the Good News: a post-modern, pre-apocalyptic update of the Ten Commandments. And who better to play God tossing out rewrites than Sean Hayes? Hayes was the ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
“Lauda Adrianna” is a contemporary liturgical dance with secular overtones; a ritual of movement based on longing, a wishing to believe in heaven, and the attempt to fill in the void, which accompanies loss—the loss of Adrianna. Left with ...
This funny, poignant production of the hit Broadway play keeps things light while touching on the existential.
Suzanne WeissTheaterSan Francisco,
There is a lot of depth to be found in banality. Especially if you dig under the dialogue of a Will Eno play. A master wordsmith, Eno keeps things simple, accessible and really funny, while hinting at the big questions ...
One of the loveliest works in the repertory gets a strong rendition with this company's dancers.
Suzanne WeissDanceSan Francisco,
I’ve been to many a party in my day but few can compare to “Dances at a Gathering,” Jerome Robbins’ 1969 homage to composer Frédéric Chopin. No cocktails, paper hats or streamers here, just a piano and beautiful dancing that ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
What do Sarah Jessica Parker, Laura Bush, Taylor Swift, Diana Vreeland, HRH Princess Maria-Chantal of Greece, and Rhianna have in common? Dresses and gowns they have worn are exhibited at the de Young Museum’s super-glam show, “Oscar de la Renta: ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
Analogy/Dora: Tramontane is the first installment of a trilogy, with the other two segments to premiere later this year. It is based on the oral history of a ninety-five-year old French-Jewish woman (Dora) who is both a French Legion of ...
