ODC Summer Dance Festival Sunday, August 18, 2024 Matinee Two Dance Events: Different Perspectives In my long history of attending dance events, I have pleasant memories of receiving a paper program, learning something about the event and waiting, well-informed, for…
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Alonzo King Lines Ballet & Peter Sellars
Alonzo King Lines Ballet & Peter Sellars – THE CONCERT June 7, 2024 7;30 PM San Francisco Symphony Hall Yes…but: Staging and Music Lack Correspondence The directors listed above, King and Sellars are both noted for their talents and many…
Smuin Contemporary Ballet
Smuin Contemporary Ballet Dance Series 2 Friday, May 10, 2024 Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco Amy Seiwert has now become the Artistic Director of the Smuin Ballet, succeeding Cecelia Fushille. Both welcomed the audience to the 24/25 season of the…
Mark Morris – Via Dolorosa, Socrates
Mark Morris Dance Group Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall April 19, 2024 “Via Dolorosa”(2024 World Premiere) Mark Morris has, for many years now, brought his dance company to Cal Performances every year. Audiences have delighted in the complexity of the technical…
San Francisco Ballet: Dos Mujeres
San Francisco Ballet April 4, 2024 Dos Mujeres San Francisco Opera House Women Choreographers: Women’s Stories in Dance An inventive and unusual evening of choreography was presented by San Frncisco Ballet with the “World Premiere” of “Carmen,” choreography by Arielle…
San Francisco Ballet: “Next @ 90” Curtain Call
San Francisco Ballet April 2, 2034 7:30pm “Next @ 90” Curtain Call Delightful Retrospective “Next@90” is a program presenting three works seen previously at the San Francisco Ballet. Each is delightful, worth seeing over and over, and especially the last…
Joffrey Ballet – Anna Karenina
The Joffrey Ballet “Anna Karenina” Friday March 15, 2024 UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall “Outrageous, Extravagant”…Excellent! The Joffrey Ballet brought its huge company to the Zellerbach Hall this past weekend to amaze us with Yuri Passokhov’s choreography for the famous Tolstoy…
San Francisco Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream San Francisco Ballet Opera House March 12, 2024 7:30 PM What dreams are made of… San Francisco Ballet has brought back Balanchine’s “Dream” after four years. At that time the production had to close…or be postponed…
Smuin 30
Smuin 30 Feb. 29, 2024 7:30. pm Yerba Buena Center San Francisco,CA Ballet as ‘show-biz’ Michael Smuin was founder of his company and director for thirteen years. Now the company is still going strong after 30 years, says Celia Fuschille,…
The Rite of Spring
common ground(s)* The Rite of Spring Zellerbach Hall UC Berkeley Friday, February 16, 2024 8 PM Sunday, February 18, 2024 3 PM École des Sables: dancing the work of Pina Bausch This event was danced by “a specially recruited ensemble”,…