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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The next time you invite potential donors to a fundraiser for your new arts project, consider making a centrepiece of naked dancers.
That’s what Marina Abramovic – “the most influential performing artist working today,” according to MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch – did for a 2011 gala that raised $2.5 …
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It’s been a great season for music in dance on the Left Coast, from Zoë Keating’s haunting cello in ODC Dance’s boulders and bones, to Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy at San Francisco Ballet, Mark Morris’ Handel extravaganza, Liam Scarlett’s meditation on Philip Glass, Samuel Carl Adams’ …
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San Francisco may boast more Cuban ballet stars per square mile than any other dance capital outside Havana, but then tiny San Francisco boasts more than its fair share of a lot of cool things. So, on May 14, when the San Francisco Dance Film Festival airs the West …
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South Africans went to the polls last week to vote in a general election, and, while the ruling African National Congress is expected to prevail, widespread anger and dissatisfaction over corruption and joblessness has already seen the party lose some ground in early results. The ANC began as a liberation …
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