When you show up to ballet class hung-over, under-caffeinated and in a general fog, and there’s a substitute teacher who throws a brand new grand allegro at you in six sets of eight with multiple pirouettes and every second jump battu, sometimes all you can think about is …
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In celebration of her company’s fortieth anniversary, choreographer Margaret Jenkins presented a threefold performance at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco last weekend, a reflective evening that represented Jenkins’ past, present and future …
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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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