Thanks to everyone who answered my call for performances to include in the Chronicle’s fall dance preview. The response was tremendous and tremendously helpful, not just for making the preview as complete as possible, but for alerting me to...
Oakland Ballet founder Ronn Guidi is back full tilt. My report in the Chronicle today: “Ronn Guidi rises from the restaurant table, leg suddenly stretching into full d?velopp? as he recounts a rehearsal with the famous choreographer Leonide...
The new and improved West Wave Dance Festival is underway. My review of Week One in the Chronicle: “The standing ovation for Amy Seiwert’s ballet troupe Im’ij-re had a movie-moment sense of triumph Sunday. More than a handful of...
memo to the Bay Area Dance Community
My deadline for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Fall Arts Preview is August 8. If you’d like your show to be included, please email information to rachel at rachelhoward dot com by August 1. Thanks!
I’m just back from ten days at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, where I’ve started the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program in writing. The program requires at least 25 hours a week, which means I won’t be writing...
Must-See: Scott Wells and Dancers
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Pity the dance critic who raises the ire of James Wolcott. From Wolcott’s Vanity Fair blog: “When Alastair Macaulay springs a leak, it’s a gusher. Gush–gushy praise and tender teardrops–has been Macaulay’s...
Back from Chicago, where I had a wonderful time meeting Dance/USA members from around the country and hearing Vanderbilt sociology professor Steven Tepper discuss his forthcoming book (co-edited with Bill Ivey) ?Engaging Art: The Next Great...
I’m at the Dance/USA Spring Council in Chicago, speaking on a panel titled “Connecting with Audiences Via the Press, Web and In-Person.” I’m the panel’s representative blogger, a role I find ironic since, although I...
The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, always one big happy party, starts this week. My preview in yesterday’s Chronicle: “Charya Burt fans her fingers like an exotic flower, lowers to her knees with her back leg bent skyward and...
Ballet etiquette makes it to Craigslist. Via Criticaldance. It’s June, the deadest dance time of the year, and though I’m off to Joe Goode’s latest tonight and Mary Carbonara Dances next week, I’m mostly seizing the...
Catching up on this week’s dance writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. First, Diablo Ballet: “The case for survival was in the dancing Saturday. Diablo Ballet needs half a million dollars by July 1 to carry on; the chamber-size...