Catching Up

Flooded with assignments and deadlines and churning out pages of the novel (they’re crap for now, but it feels so good to move forward) and so just catching up with this site. I reviewed the National Ballet of China the other day for the...

Vassilii Mountian

I’m back in San Francisco, and in the Chronicle today with a story about one of my favorite programs for kids in the Bay Area: “It’s a stampede. Sixteen children marching like toy soldiers on speed, spinning and stomping so hard...

Fall Dance

The Chronicle asked me to tackle the upcoming dance season for the paper’s Fall Arts Preview, which was published in the Pink section yesterday. My list is not a selection of “critic’s picks” or recommended shows, but a...

Recommended this Week

I?ve just returned from the Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco, where I led a lecture and Q and A with Yannis Adoniou, artistic director of Kunst-Stoff. The Yerba Buena Gardens have commissioned a fresh take on Fokine?s iconic ?Les...

Recommended this week

With all this plugging of my memoir “The Lost Night,” you might think I’ve forgotten about dance–but not so. In fact, before I head to the Central Valley tomorrow for a few readings, I want to make sure to post about a...

Fall Dance

Memo to the Bay Area dance community: I will be doing the Fall Arts Preview for dance for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Pink Section. If you have a dance event coming up that you’d like me to consider, make sure you email the basic...

Brian Brooks Moving Company ?Pi?ata? Summerdance Santa Barbara Center Stage Theater July 9, 2005 Nicholas Duran in Brian Brooks Moving Company’s “Pinata.” Santa Barbara is a town that knows how to party, so it?s not surprising...

The Festivals of Summer

San Francisco’s West Wave Dance Festival returns this week. The Chronicle’s Pink section had me talk with Heidi Schweiker, one of the standouts from last year’s season: “Heidi Schweiker punches the air with her shoulder...

The Majestic Muriel

San Francisco Ballet principal Muriel Maffre is writing a diary that will appear in the Chronicle during the company’s tour to Paris. The paper asked me to describe Maffre’s career with the company by way of introduction, and so I led...

Americans in Paris

Allan Ulrich writes about San Francisco Ballet’s trip to Paris (opening today) for the New York Times: ” AMERICAN dancers – an entire company of them – are descending on Paris this week, and while they will perform to...

Wheeldon Watching

San Francisco Ballet innaugurates a new festival–Les ?t?s de la danse de Paris–next week with world premieres by Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, and Christopher Wheeldon. The Chronicle will be carrying extensive coverage from the scene...

George Balanchine?s 1965 ?Don Quixote? will be resurrected on Washington D.C.?s Kennedy Center stage tonight. This is one I wish I could fly out for. For non-balletomanes out there, let me explain that this is not the ?Don Q? whose whiz-bang pas...