Another show worth seeing during a busy dance week–my review in today’s Chronicle: “Those who think postmodern dance sounds about as fun as a root canal need to get themselves to ODC Theater tonight to see the final performance...
Worth a trip to the airport: My latest review in today’s Chronicle: “A few years ago, Joanna Haigood named one of her entrancing installations “Ghost Architecture.” The title could easily describe her entire body of work...
My Chronicle report on the newly unveiled plans for San Francisco Ballet’s 75th season: “San Francisco Ballet will crown its 75th anniversary season with a New Works Festival of 10 world premieres in 2008, as well as an international...
Muriel Maffre’s adieu at SF Ballet–my review in today’s Chronicle: “Muriel Maffre raised her impossibly long arms toward the War Memorial Opera House ceiling Sunday night, then let them drop — clunk —...
Gonzalo Garcia gives his last performance in San Francisco with SF Ballet this Saturday. I interviewed him for the Chronicle: “Gonzalo Garcia rises on tiptoe, brown eyes wide, chest reaching. He opens his arms for his ballerina, Tina...
My review of SF Ballet’s “Don Quixote” in today’s Chronicle: “Committed San Francisco Ballet fans will want to know this first: Lorena Feijoo and Joan Boada aren’t performing in the current run of “Don...
I’m already receiving quite a few emails from SF Ballet fans about last night’s “Don Quixote.” The disappointment is that Lorena Feijoo and Joan Boada won’t be dancing the leads in this run–for reasons which I...
Last week was subsumed by the sudden death of Michael Smuin. A populist and popular choreographer, former co-director of the San Francisco Ballet, and founder of his wildly successful chamber troupe Smuin Ballets, Smuin was teaching company class...
I’ve got a review in the Chronicle today: “For those who don’t know, it’s worth stating plainly: Alonzo King is the real deal as a choreographer, one of the few bona fide visionaries in the ballet world today, and we are...
Don’t you love it when your not-so-clever lead gets mangled into something absolutely stupid? The second sentence of my review of San Francisco Ballet’s program seven used to read: “a name as unknown in these parts as it is...
Catching up . . . My interview with SF Ballet soloist Rory Hohenstein in the Chronicle yesterday: “Rory Hohenstein sets down his coffee and raises his arms, and suddenly it’s as if he’s a different person. “It’s...
I’ve got an on-the-scene little ditty in the Chronicle today: “Forget the Big Game. A new rivalry was raging in San Francisco on Thursday night, and you could hear bloodlust and trash talk in the air. Dance, dance, baby. You know, you...