Like a force of nature, Alexei Ratmansky’s coruscating Shostakovich Trilogy has made landfall on the Left Coast, after sweeping New York last season, and San Francisco Ballet tackles it with style and moxie.
Ballet to the People was there on Thursday night, and thought:
You do not …
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Gatecrashing a rehearsal for Milwaukee Ballet’s current triple bill at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Ballet to the People was reminded of what Roger Scruton said at a recent conference on contemporary art:
… Read more →You should be able to go to art with the burden of your life.
It was a bittersweet evening at Zellerbach Hall on Friday night with the Trey McIntyre Project returning to Cal Performances at Berkeley as part of their farewell tour. The ten-year-old, Boise-based company will be dismantled as McIntyre continues to explore …
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… Read more →… I would walk alone,
In storm and tempest, or in starlight nights
Beneath the quiet heavens; and, at that time
Would feel whate‘er there is of power in sound
To breathe an elevated mood by form
Or image unprofaned; and I would stand,
Beneath some rock listening
“Secrets are dangerous things,” intoned Robert Redford, the quintessential good guy with a terrible secret, in his 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep. Music from this and other spine-tinglers, all in a moody, minimalist vein, form the score to Alejandro Cerrudo’s Memory Glow, the latest addition …
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