I reviewed the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company?s Cal Performances appearance yesterday for Voice of Dance: ?Watching the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company explode across the stage with color and good cheer, it?s easy to understand...
DTH Disbands
Sad news from Dance Theatre of Harlem today: ?The Dance Theatre of Harlem, one of the most acclaimed dance troupes in the world, plans to disband its 44-member company and shut its doors for the rest of the 2004-05 season until its finances can...
Recommended this week
I?ll be checking out the Bay Area premiere of John Jasperse?s ?CALIFORNIA? tomorrow night at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Jasperse, whose heady approach to creating experimental dance environments has generated buzz on the east coast, is...
critical apathy
I?ve got a review of Huckabay McAllister?s tenth anniversary show up on Voice of Dance: ?Honey, I?m Home!, the title of Huckabay McAllister Dance?s 10th anniversary program, perfectly captures this company?s goofy sense of theatricality. HMD?s...
SFB in 2004
My review of San Francisco Ballet?s 2004 season is out in this month?s Dance Magazine. The article is not online, but here?s a taste: ?It took a full-length world premiere by Mark Morris to draw the international press to San Francisco Ballet in...
Women in Ballet
The Houston Ballet assembles a program of choreography by women: Lila York, Natalie Weir, and former San Francisco Ballet principal Julia Adam. Molly Glentzer seizes the occasion to talk with Lynn Garafola, whose new book due out in January...
Parental Advisory
Toni Bentley, the former New York City Ballet dancer whose wonderfully revealing first book, Winter Season, I?m finally reading, has a new nonfiction title slated for publication in October. If you thought Sisters of Salome, her book about...
SFB’s new soloist
San Francisco Ballet is on tour to London, and the company?s new soloist, 18-year-old Royal Ballet School grad Nutnaree Pipithsuksunt, talks to the Independent: ?Before being signed up by San Francisco Ballet, she was offered contracts with...
Passion for fashion
My review of the Hagen & Simone/TONGUE double-header is now up on Voice of Dance: ?ODC Theater manager Rob Bailis has a flair for provocative programming. Last weekend he paired San Francisco?s Hagen & Simone with Los Angeles?s TONGUE...
The Season Ahead
Anita Amirrezvani, in what one hopes is not her final article on dance for the San Jose Mercury News, starts her roundup of fall?s dance events on a downbeat note: ?Fall brings with it the hustle and bustle of the Bay Area dance season, often...
It?s true: The San Jose Mercury News? dance critic Anita Amirrezvani (click here for a taste of her thoughtful work) has been reassigned from the dance beat to the copy desk. She tells me there are no plans she knows of afoot to hire a...
Recommended this week
–ODC Theater has a promising double feature running tonight through Saturday. Hagen and Simone, AKA the ever theatrical and fashion-minded Kevin Clarke and Monique Jenkinson, present ?Future Perfect,? pairing Strunk and White?s ?Elements of...