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2 JUNE 2014

Kathak and Hands, Within Walking Distance

 

Leigh Donlan reports from the ODC Walking Distance Dance Festival in San Francisco:

With summer just around the corner, ODC flung their doors wide open this weekend for their third annual Walking Distance Dance Festival in San Francisco’s Mission District. Three dance programs at various ODC locations – all …

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1 JUNE 2014

The Russian Invasion: La Bayadére at the Met

 

 

The glittering La Bayadère – conceived by French ballet master extraordinaire Marius Petipa and set in an improbable Indian kingdom – premiered in St. Petersburg in 1877, at a time of official Russian backlash against the importation of popular Italian stars, known as the “Italian invasion.” Homegrown Ekaterina …

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31 MAY 2014

Oakland Ballet’s Love Letter to a City

 

 

Ballet companies everywhere are trying to stay relevant, agonizing over how to build audiences and attract a younger demographic to the opera house.

Oakland Ballet’s straightforward strategy takes ballet to the streets, literally and figuratively. Their latest program, Oakland-esque, a love letter to the artists and musicians …

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27 MAY 2014

Arab Love Arab Freedom: A beguiling new voice

 

Is it possible that art is more than personal experience? If you recognize that your voice contains all the voices that came before you, then you will realize that when you speak you do not speak alone. All the people who made your presence possible on earth speak with

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24 MAY 2014

A spine-tingling Mirror Mirror at Milwaukee Ballet

 

 

Michael Pink’s reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale for Milwaukee Ballet, set to a bold, original score by Philip Feeney, is a thing of spine-tingling beauty, and an engrossing story that delivers world-class dancing with production values worthy of Broadway.

Mirror Mirror‘s quixotic glamour, visual thrills …

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