I?m in the Chronicle today, writing about a surprise celebration of Bay Area dance: ?You’d expect a socialite to fete her 50th birthday with dinner and dancing, but former cookie magnate and professional dancer Linda Rawlings has decided to...
Allan Ulrich reports in the Chronicle today on a new film about the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: ?The names and histories of those dancers — Alicia Markova (now 93), Maria Tallchief, Irina Baronova and Tatiana Riabouchinska (two of the...
A big day for dialogue in the dance world yesterday. In response to the New York Times article on patrons who sponsor individual dancers, Dance Magazine editor Wendy Perron writes to the paper: ?Because dance doesn’t get the media support...
In previous posts I’ve referred to Michael Smuin’s company as Smuin Ballets/SF. Alert readers will notice the company has rechristened itself Smuin Ballet. The name is much improved. The company also has a snazzy new web site, and...
Paul Parish reviews San Francisco Ballet?s Stern Grove performance for the DanceView Times. Like so much that Paul writes, the whole review is so lively that I?m tempted to quote it in its entirety, but I?ll offer just this slice: ?Last year, or...
The New York Times reports on ballet companies whose patrons sponsor dancers: ?In a surprisingly entrepreneurial move, American ballet companies have recently begun allowing donors to sponsor individual dancers, for amounts that range from $2,500...
I can never see Balanchine?s ?Serenade? too many times?or read too many elucidating essays on it. This one is by Tom Phillips in the DanceView Times: ?Seventeen girls stand in blue light, with their feet parallel. One arm is raised, the hand...
The more I reflect upon the conclusion to my post ?Thinking out of the Niche,? the more those final lines sound like a futile and frustrated directive to no one but myself. Last week I harped about the need to continue pitching dance criticism to...
Voice of Dance?s Allan Ulrich also reveled in San Francisco Ballet?s Stern Grove appearance: ?Having returned from its annual holiday a month ago, the S.F. Ballet is gearing up for next month?s tour to the Athens Festival and Sadler?s Wells...
Via Arts Journal, a rather touchingly earnest column on why dance criticism matters, from a Montreal critic: “I read dance criticism?and write it?because dance still deserves more attention than it gets, despite the fact there is more dance...
inkBoat’s “Ame to Ame,” which I review in the SF Chronicle today, did not disappoint: “‘Romance’ isn’t a word usually associated with the Japanese dance form butoh, but inkBoat’s “Ame to Ame...
San Francisco Ballet Stern Grove, San Francisco August 8, 2004 One of the pre-show pastimes for San Francisco Ballet?s free annual appearance at Stern Grove is predicting the weather. The odds are stacked: if memory serves, four out of the last...
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