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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Twenty-four dancers in white classical tutus descended the shadowed grotto into Solor’s opium-induced dream, stepping into grand arabesques ever high and in unison, an awesome vision to behold. The epochal Kingdom of the Shades from Act II …
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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet performed three dramatically different works at Zellerbach Hall on Saturday evening. Currently under the interim artistic direction of Alexandra Damiani, the company’s long-time ballet mistress, the New York City based company, with its daring …
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San Francisco Ballet’s latest mixed bill yielded the luscious, enigmatic Ghosts by Christopher Wheeldon, the otherworldly wraiths of La Bayadère‘s Kingdom of the Shades, and a curiously de-feathered Firebird, courtesy of SFB’s resident choreographer Yuri Possokhov. All revivals, though this was the first time they had …
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In January, San Francisco dance lovers had a rare glimpse of Robert Moses performing his own work, in a seven-minute solo entitled The Slow Rise of a Rigid Man. In a tight spotlight on the dark stage, against lyrics by the gruff-voiced David Worm that proclaimed that he …
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