You can actually click here to read the full text of my in-depth profile of San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson for San Francisco Magazine. I really do recommend picking up the hard copy issue, though; the photographs and the...
My review of San Francisco Ballet’s gala for the SF Chronicle is now online: ” “Maestro!” Pascal Molat shouted with a mischievous grin before launching himself into a dizzying whirl of jetes. Soon Nicolas Blanc rushed the...
I’m back–back from graduate school residency in North Carolina at
I’m in Asheville, North Carolina for my graduate school residency in the Warren Wilson College writing program all week. Meanwhile, my list of dance performances to look forward to in the first half of 2008 is in tomorrow’s SF...
My look back at the year in Bay Area dance for the San Francisco Chronicle is now online. In addition to a Top 10, the Chronicle asks its critics to choose a High, Low, Most Improved, and Most Valuable Player. My picks: “HIGH: Gonzalo...
Catching up after travels. The San Francisco Ballet “Nutcracker” is underway, and I reviewed Maria Kotchekova’s delightful debut in in for the Chronicle: “News flash for you lingering holiday dance Grinches: The fusty, old...
I reviewed Margaret Jenkins’ newest for today’s Chronicle: “In the inevitable ebb and flow of a long, rich dance-making career, Margaret Jenkins is reaching high tide. She just finished a piece to premiere as part of San...
It’s that time of year when the Chronicle asks me to look back on 2007, and ahead to 2008. I’m just starting to assemble a “forecast” of dance events in the first half of 2008, to appear in the Chronicle’s Pink...
The Chronicle asked me to check out the live tour of the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance?” Friday, and I gamely obliged: “It was an astonishing sight Friday: Oakland’s Oracle Arena packed with screaming fans who had...
My review of American Ballet Theatre at Berkeley: “There was a moment at American Ballet Theatre on Wednesday night when everything changed. Herman Cornejo came tearing out of stage left at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall and launched...
My SF Chronicle review of the Faustin Linyekula: “Pain is all-consuming, but the intensity doesn’t always translate. Ken Foster, executive director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, has brought us a steady series of African...
My review of the Lines Ballet fall season, in Monday’s Chronicle: “Lines Ballet threw itself a big party Friday night, and for a big occasion. The troupe is officially 25 years old, but longevity is just the start of what’s...
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