Summerdance Santa Barbara Aszure and Artists Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara July 27, 2006 A decade ago, I cut my teeth as an upstart dance critic writing about a new festival called Summerdance Santa Barbara. (Thankfully, those were the days...
I wrote about artistic director Helgi Tomasson’s transformation of the San Francisco Ballet for today’s New York Times: ” “SAN FRANCISCO BALLET is the best ballet company in North America,? Mark Morris, the choreographer...
I’m in the midst of putting together the Fall Dance Preview for the SF Chronicle. If you’ve got a dance event coming up in the Bay Area between September and December, please send details ASAP to rachel at rachel howard dot com...
As the San Francisco Ballet prepares for the Lincoln Center Festival, and Yuri Possokhov prepares to give his final performances, I talked with him about his new role as the Ballet’s choreographer in residence: “Yuri Possokhov rushed...
I reviewed the first three programs of the WestWave Dance Festival for today’s Chronicle: “Must the WestWave Dance Festival feel like such a slog? Now in its 15th year, it’s the anchor of the slow summer dance calendar and a...
I reviewed Erika Shuch’s new “Orbit” in today’s Chronicle: “What makes Erika Shuch’s work so arresting isn’t the way she intuitively melds movement and theater, or the knack she has for attracting...
Last night at an art opening, a woman who?s been disappointed by one too many undercooked Bay Area dance shows asked me what I?d recommend in town, and I was happy to have an enthusiastic answer on the tip of my tongue. Scott Wells and Dancers?...
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s latest touring project, Hell’s Kitchen Dance, is an absolute delight, mostly thanks to the talent of young Canadian-born choreographer Aszure Barton. From my review in today’s Chronicle: “It used to...
The feedback I’m already receiving on this article in today’s Chronicle just further confirms how beloved Remy Charlip–choreographer, founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, children’s book author and...
The good news about the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company?s latest show is that it contains some of the best dancing I have ever seen in San Francisco: Heidi Schweiker with her unfailing clarity of shape and intense doll face; Levi Toni with his...
No, I’m not returning to full-blown blogging (she doth protest too much?), just popping in to highlight a show flying low under the radar. With so many Bay Area choreographers gaga over arts-funding conditions in Germany, the gutsy San...
The San Francisco Ballet season is coming to an end, and I can’t help blogging about it. The season closed with a farewell gala, which I reviewed for the Chronicle: “Cheers and confetti rained upon the Opera House stage Friday as...
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