1913 was an infamous year in the history of music and dance, the year that Stravinsky and Nijinsky unleashed Le Sacre du Printemps on an unsuspecting Parisian audience, provoking a riot. But it was also the year that the world went tango mad. All of Europe was dancing it, although …
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Last week, Jo Kreiter’s company of six female dancers were climbing the walls and swinging from the rafters of the interior of the former premises of the American Can factory, a lofty industrial space now repurposed for dance and theatre.
Their repeated scrambling and failure to reach higher ground recalls …
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At the theatre formerly known as the New York State Theater:
Ballet to the People had the pleasure of sitting next to a courtly gentleman who opened the conversation with “I saw Limón dance the Moor.”
Detonated by a …
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The Butterfly Lovers – one of those hybrid East-meets-West story ballets meant to showcase Chinese command of classical Western technique while celebrating a traditional Chinese theme – blew into Berkeley on a cloud of garishly colored butterfly tutus, courtesy of Shanghai Ballet at Cal Performances. This conventional tale of …
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Rosanna Gamson’s Layla Means Night, a riff on the Persian fable of Scheherazade, draws audiences into what program notes describe as “an immersive tour through a world of ritual violence and exquisite pleasure.”
The audience of approximately 70 is split into three groups – men, women and a co-ed …
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