New Works Festival A

My review in today’s Chronicle: “It’s tempting to treat San Francisco Ballet’s gargantuan New Works Festival as a sporting event: 10 choreographers unveiling 10 world premieres over three days. Who will win? Who will lose?...

Project Bandaloop

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Second Thoughts

Critics have second thoughts. All the time. But of course, writing dance reviews overnight, it’s our first thoughts that make it into print. Sometimes the second thought is simply a change of heart–a piece that didn’t speak to...

Gravity Rising

For about five years now, the choreographer Jess Curtis has divided his time creatively between San Francisco and the more arts-funding-progressive Berlin. The arrangement is allowing him to do beautiful new things with his work, I discovered...

Visiting Companies at SF Ballet

My review for the Chronicle: “The grandly titled “International Salute to San Francisco Ballet” has a practical purpose: As the National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo pay tribute to the...

Balanchine in San Jose

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Golden Memories at SF Ballet

I scoped out the emotional San Francisco Ballet alumni reunion Saturday for the Chronicle: “Louise Lawler Pynchon had just finished gawking at a 1956 photo of herself with the San Francisco Ballet corps in “Concerto Barocco.”...

World Premieres at ODC

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