San Francisco would not be the great city that it is without its artists. But like many others, the artists are increasingly being forced out of their hometown by continuously rising rents, evictions, lack of jobs and the intensifying funding drought. …
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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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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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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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… Read more →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