I’m in the Chronicle today with a story on ODC’s inviting new Dance Commons: “The once-abandoned warehouse at 351 Shotwell St. teemed with life on a recent winter day, with amateur ballerinas springing onto pointe while down the...
Recommended This Week
The dance calendar springs back into action over the next few weeks with Bill T. Jones in Berkeley, the opening of the San Francisco Ballet season, and the official unveiling of ODC/Dance’s new building (and consequently my frequency of...
Looking Forward
I’ll be spending a lot of time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2006, and if you’re a San Francisco dance fan you should, too. Not only is it the venue of choice for many of the city’s major companies and for San...
The Dance Year That Was
Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, auld lang syne, and here’s to 2006. The Chronicle’s Pink section will run my list of 10 dance events to look forward to next Sunday. First, the paper looks back at 2005, asking each critic to pony up a...
From Tere O’Connor’s final thoughts over at Arts Journal’s discussion on New York as the dance capital of the world: “I am also an advocate for art as an area of existence that doesn?t have to be held up to the moral...
Dance Capital of the World?
Over at Arts Journal, the debate about whether New York is still the capital of the dance world–and why or why not, and what this means for the future of dance–is just warming up. The site has brought together key players on the dance...
I reviewed Janice Garrett & Dancers’ 2005 season, closing tomorrow at the Cowell, for the Chronicle this week: “Here was something rare for San Francisco: traditional American modern dance in the vein of Paul Taylor, dance that...
Levy’s Horror
I reviewed LEVYdance for yesterday’s Chronicle: “If you want to know what makes LEVYdance so sexy, it’s all there in “Holding Pattern,” the opener for the company’s third-anniversary home season at ODC Theater...
Recommended this Week
Two great dance shows coming up this week that I’d hate to see get lost in the holiday bustle, both by relatively young San Francisco companies worth watching carefully. Janice Garrett and Dancers’ Heidi Schweiker –I tend to...
Nutcracker Season
In the Chronicle’s Pink Section today, I talk to Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley artistic director Dennis Nahat, one of America’s most colorful Drosselmeyers. Perhaps more importantly, as seasonal consumerism kicks in, I describe 10...
And I can’t let another day pass without noting that Fernando Bujones, one of the superstar male ballet dancers of the 20th century, has died of skin cancer at 50. The Washington Post, Daily Telegraph, and New York Times all offer tributes...
The New Yorker’s Joan Acocella writes about the new Baryshnikov Arts Center: “More than anything, though, Mikhail Baryshnikov intends the center as a meeting place. ?I wanted to bring people together in an informal way,? he says. ?So...