Robbins: Ballet & Broadway

San Francisco,

San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' The Cage. (© Erik Tomasson)

Robbins: Ballet & Broadway

Dance San Francisco,
“There’s only one thing worse than being in a Robbins work, and that’s not being in one,” a veteran New York City Ballet dancer remarked recently. Circling ’round the New York ballet world in eighty minutes, this all-Robbins program offers ...
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Vietgone

Theater San Francisco,
”Vietgone,” an unusual blend of broad comedy with ending touches of sentiment and insight, focuses on the travails of a South Vietnamese man and woman who separately immigrate to the U.S. during the 1975 fall of Saigon, and meet ...
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Company Wayne McGregor

Dance San Francisco,
On an empty smoked-filled stage, Jacob O’Connell’s solo began the fifteen-part “Autobiography.” His movements were reptilian and articulate, his développé effortless, quickly dissolving into something gritty, as Lucy Carter’s stark white lighting washed down like a heavy mist. He danced ...
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Music With Changing Parts

Music San Francisco,
Philip Glass @ 80ish When “Music With Changing Parts” premiered in New York in1970 it was at once revolutionary, persistent, repetitive, annoying, hypnotic, challenging, and otherworldly. People walked out while others were completely mesmerized. The future had arrived and ...
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Until, Until, Until . . .

Theater San Francisco,
"Until, Until, Until . . . is a play accompanied by a multi-media video installation. It's an interrogation of the facts and misinformation surrounding the controversy about the famous 1981 televised performance by Broadway actor and dancer Ben Vereen, that ...
San Francisco Ballet in Thatcher's Ghost in the Machine. (© Erik Tomasson)

Distinctly SF Ballet

Dance San Francisco,
All three works on this evening's program are locally sourced archived ballets. Those who have seen them in other seasons can reflect on how they stand the test of time and a new call-up of dancers takes on the tasks ...
San Francisco Ballet in Balanchine's Serenade. (Choreography by George Balanchine © The Balanchine Trust; Photo © Erik Tomasson)

Bright Fast Cool Blue

Dance San Francisco,
It is hard to name a work that creates otherworldliness all of one piece as does George Balanchine's sky blue "Serenade." To do justice to the Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky score, dancers must arrive floaty, swift, and punctual, contradictory though those ...