A very grumpy Ballet To The People turned up late to the closing night of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, having crawled into town from Oakland Airport at approximately 2 miles per hour over the new Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge. At a price tag of $6.4 billion, …
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A beloved New York City institution is losing its home after 34 years, its impending demise another reminder that this world capital of arts and culture has become inhospitable to all but the behemoths.
The small but illustrious New York Theatre Ballet, which runs a school and outreach program and …
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Two young Russian dancers poised on the edge of greatness. Two lovely and poignant short films, shot through very different lenses.
She does not appear to question whether it is worth all the sacrifice. He is wildly ambivalent.
She wears loneliness like a tiara. He wears it like a crown …
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Confronted with eight companies in six intriguing programs over five days at the festival of modern dance known as SPF6 at the ODC Theatre in San Francisco, Ballet To The People called in the Special Forces, in the person of dance omnivore, Leigh Donlan. Together they mapped out a …
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San Franciscans don’t have to fly to Vail or Jacob’s Pillow to see the best of new, experimental dance in the summer. We get our summer dance fix at the hip ODC Theater, headquarters of the sixth annual Summer Performance Festival, SPF6 featuring eight emerging dance artists hand-picked by Joe …
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