Fall Dance
What a pleasure to talk up my top ten dance picks in this fall arts preview for KQED’s website. I’m particularly eager to see Batsheva and Sasha Waltz. Click here for enticing photos and video. Hope to see you at some of these...
What a pleasure to talk up my top ten dance picks in this fall arts preview for KQED’s website. I’m particularly eager to see Batsheva and Sasha Waltz. Click here for enticing photos and video. Hope to see you at some of these...
Busy spring/summer of writing and reading! –I finished an extensive revision of my novel-in-progress thanks to a deep reading from the ever-wise Ethel Rohan. –I joined a writing group with marvelous Bridget Quinn and Kate Folk...
Next week I drive to Santa Barbara for the second of three “Friday Clubs” with New York choreographer Mark Dendy and his dancers. This is a new offering from DANCEworks, a residency program that gives choreographers a full month to...
I think only a Russian could have choreographed Shostakovich as Alexei Ratmansky has, capturing the music’s inner current so subtly and chillingly. Or perhaps a Czech, because seeing Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy is like being...
Whether the moneyed tech population of Silicon Valley will support the reinvented Ballet San Jose remains to be seen, but whether Jose Manuel Carreno was the right choice to lead this company’s upgrade was perfectly clear Saturday night at the...
I’ve been doing a lot of dance/performance writing lately, and thought I would collect it here: Interview with Korean Shaman-singer Dohee Lee. This was a special encounter for me, and I wish I’d had at least twice the space to profile...
January 26, 2014 War Memorial Opera House It was good to discover much more about new San Francisco Ballet principal Mathilde Froustey in her “Giselle” debut here Sunday. She certainly drew instant adoration from the sold-out matinee audience—the...
War Memorial Opera House January 22, 2014 A wonderfully substantive, often serious, season-opening gala at the San Francisco Ballet last night. I appreciate the risk artistic director Helgi Tomasson took in the full U.S. premiere of Hans van...
FRESH FESTIVAL 2013 POV Performance Series January 11, 2014 KUNST-STOFF arts, San Francisco San Francisco’s Fresh Festival mostly lived up to its name last Saturday with the second installment of its POV performance series. I was particularly...
I’m feeling good about 2014. Perhaps finishing a major revision of your five-years-in-the-making novel four days before January 1st will do that for you. I’ve got the glow of New Year promise. –I’ve hopped on board that Elena Ferrante...
The revelation of Ballet San Jose’s gala Saturday was Joseph Gatti and Adiarys Almeida in the Le Corsaire pas de deux-—any balletomanes out there know these two? What a sight he was: exotic passion and perfect form. And she spun through a perfect...
Thoroughly enjoyed Jerome Bel’s “The Show Must Go On” (2005) at Stanford University last night. Interesting to see how the piece is an extension of the Judson-era innovations (mix of “professional” and...
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