If a ballerina makes it far enough into her career to dance the title role of Giselle, she is considered a ‘complete’ dancer. This is a triple role, three different women in one- a fragile hearted girl, …
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Wayne McGregor’s FAR, which came to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco this past weekend, was reportedly conceived in collaboration with cognitive scientists at the University of California in San Diego.
We’ll take their word for it.
A more obvious collaboration would have been …
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I teach ballet in a community where there are two other dance studios, both of which have been in business longer than I have. I own my studio and employ two other teachers. I’ve never had a problem with another studio until recently when a teenage student …
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Leigh Donlan reports from Z Space in San Francisco:
A dance performance based on a Virginia Woolf novel? Now there’s something you don’t see everyday in dance. As the audience arrived at Z Space for Liss Fain’s After the Light, we were greeted by a video installation by …
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It’s been two years since Ballet to the People won the Top Dance Blog award, thanks to your support. Many of you are not dancers nor regular dance-goers but you seem to enjoy reading about it, for which I am grateful.
Ballet to …
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