Brian Brooks, Larry Keigwin, and DANCEworks
Tomorrow night, March 30th, I’ll be taking a dozen undergraduates from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina to see Larry Keigwin + Company at Asheville’s Diana Wortham Theater. On the other side of the ...Thursday, March 29th, 2012 · Dance · No Comments »
McGregor’s “Chroma” at SF Ballet
I reviewed programs six and seven for the San Francisco Classical Voice: "Wayne McGregor’s Chroma made a sensation when it premiered at England’s Royal Ballet in 2006: ticket lines down the block, a swift appointment of McGregor to choreographer in residence, ...Monday, April 11th, 2011 · Dance · No Comments »
Paul Taylor Dance Co in SF
I reviewed Wednesday and Sunday's programs for the San Francisco Classical Voice: "Paul Taylor is 80, and his Paul Taylor Dance Company is in its 56th season, and because of these facts — well, and because of his instantly recognizable muscular ...Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 · Dance · No Comments »
Balanchine’s Coppelia at SFB
I reviewed for the San Francisco Classical Voice: "Coppélia arrived at the War Memorial Opera House Saturday looking like it has always belonged there. And it’s true that this 1870 ballet — with its long-lost original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, and its ...Monday, March 21st, 2011 · Dance · No Comments »
Rory Hohenstein at Diablo Ballet
I reviewed for the Chronicle: "Ah, the conditions ballet dancers will work with to popularize their art. Watching Diablo Ballet at Walnut Creek's Shadelands Arts Center Auditorium, I thought of the greats who used to appear on the "Bell Telephone Hour": ...Sunday, March 6th, 2011 · Dance · 1 Comment »
Jess Curtis/Gravity
I reviewed Jess Curtis/Gravity's premiere of "Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies" for Dance Magazine: For the better part of a decade, Jess Curtis has been on a self-styled trajectory, presenting himself as an artist equally interested in theorizing about performance and practicing ...Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 · Dance · No Comments »
Giselle: Yuan Yuan Tan and Sarah Van Patten
I reviewed two casts of San Francisco Ballet's Giselle for the San Francisco Classical Voice: "Giselle might have seemed merely an ordinary start to the San Francisco Ballet’s 78th season — a nice, now-familiar staging of this Romantic-era warhorse by Artistic ...Monday, January 31st, 2011 · Dance · No Comments »
Rennie Harris Puremovement at Stanford
The Chronicle asked me to do a short Q and A. "Rennie Harris changed attitudes in the dance world when his "Rome and Jewels," a 2000 adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," proved that hip-hop could be presented as artistically ambitious ...Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 · Dance · No Comments »
‘Black Swan’ Hype
I've been silently watching the 'Black Swan' acclaim in befuddlement, and so was happy to receive this email from SF Chronicle reader James Pendergast, who shares an insightful review by his stepson Kurt Ackridge. (I requested permission from both ...Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 · Dance · 4 Comments »
Apollo’s Angels
I reviewed Jennifer Homans' new history of ballet for the San Francisco Chronicle: "Jennifer Homans begins and ends her weighty new cultural history of ballet with a provocative old claim: Ballet is dead. Let's set aside the obvious question of why ...Saturday, November 13th, 2010 · Books, Dance · No Comments »
