“Secrets are dangerous things,” intoned Robert Redford, the quintessential good guy with a terrible secret, in his 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep. Music from this and other spine-tinglers, all in a moody, minimalist vein, form the score to Alejandro Cerrudo’s Memory Glow, the latest addition …
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Stephen Petronio’s Like Lazarus Did made its West Coast première at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday night, easily charming the audience with the local San Francisco Girls Chorus angelically singing, “I …
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Eva Yerbabuena, the gypsy queen of the flamenco dance world, is in the process of renovating her art form, as demonstrated by Lluvia (‘Rain’), Ballet Flamenco’s evening- length performance which kicked off Cal Performances’ Focus on Flamenco series at Zellerbach
After last season’s premières by Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella opened last night in San Francisco. Packed with feats of amazing stagecraft, this lavish production centers around a magic tree that grows at Cinderella’s mother’s gravesite, and shelters a covey of phantasmagorical woodland creatures …
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After 20 years of captivating East Bay audiences, Diablo Ballet tipped its hat to the past with an anniversary program that segued movingly from film clips of past performances to live performance of the same pieces, but also nodded vigorously to the future with a brand new work …
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