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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Leigh Donlan reports from SFJazz:
Passion and curiosity filled the SFJazz Center’s Miner Auditorium on Tuesday night. The new state-of-the-art theater was a perfect choice of venue for Zhukov Dance Theater, intimate, with steeply raked seats surrounding the stage and pitch-perfect acoustics. Product 06 celebrated this San Francisco-based …
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The intoxicating aroma of artisan bread baking in the stone hearth ovens of Panorama Bakery next to Z Space in San Francisco’s Mission district turned out to be the only wholesome feature of an evening spent in the company of Amy Seiwert and four other choreographers whom she chose to …
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This fall, Alonzo King puts his sleek, sinuous stamp on Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, with witty nods to predecessors George Balanchine and Paul Taylor.
The result is sheer, sensual delight. At the close, however, there is a nagging sense of loose ends to King’s Concerto, of a concept that …
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Leigh Donlan reports from Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley:
It was a much anticipated return. Nederlands Dans Theater at Cal Performances in U.C. Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall gave us two West Coast premières, Sehnsucht and Schmetterling, both choreographed by Paul Lightfoot and Sol León. This pair has had enormous shoes to …
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