Few programs explore the power of ballet to depict the human condition and the inhuman condition as beguilingly as Pacific Northwest Ballet’s recent offering of three modern classics by Jiří Kylián, brilliantly paired with Emergence, Crystal Pite’s spine-chilling parable of a sci-fi insect kingdom.
Program notes by Kylián for …
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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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