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1 MAY 2014

San Francisco Ballet’s Hummingbird Soars

 

Leigh Donlan reports from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco:

 

 

San Francisco Ballet presented the world première of Liam Scarlett’s Hummingbird on Tuesday night, a beautifully human work of massive proportions from the twenty-eight year old British choreographer and current Artist in Residence at The …

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29 APRIL 2014

Mozart, Morris and Mizrahi do Handel: Acis and Galatea

 

 

“Please locate the nearest emergency,” intoned the voice on loudspeaker, sparking the first of many chuckles from Saturday night’s audience at Cal Performances in Berkeley, at the opening of Mark Morris’ latest adventure in opera. Morris gets Handel like no one else gets him: he crafted a towering …

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24 APRIL 2014

A great American ballerina bows out

 

 

A great American ballerina will say Farewell to the stage in a few days – but that’s only one reason to catch Oregon Ballet Theatre at the Newmark Theatre in Portland. The company has been dancing with great pizzazz all season, and its latest offering boasts two company …

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10 APRIL 2014

How to watch dance

A recent thread on Quora addressed the question: Is there a secret (a “how to”) to listening to classical music?

I have started listening to classical music, I really like it, and I am at a stage where I have a few pieces that I love. But because it is …

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