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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Honor a legend: New York Theatre Ballet is marking its 35th year – time to reflect on the miracle of this tiny company, which continues to bring the finest and most imaginative in classical and contemporary ballet programming to New Yorkers, at unbelievably affordable ticket prices, largely thanks to …
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Amy Seiwert’s evening of experimental new work by herself and two other choreographers, set on her intrepid company of eight classically trained ballet dancers, is visually stunning in the intimate ODC Theatre, while the company’s stamina is severely tested by the demands on their athleticism.
The piece with …
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Post:Ballet’s new San Francisco season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Lam Research Theater is entitled Four Plays, a double entendre that suggests we are in for an evening of lighthearted, sexy escapades. On one level that is what we got on opening night. But choreographer Robert Dekkers’ …
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American Ballet Theatre kicked off the final stretch of its long and arduous season with an inspired opening night program in Los Angeles that gave us a powerful political and personal statement by Alexei Ratmansky, flanked by two of George Balanchine’s iconic works, APOLLO and SYMPHONY IN C, in interpretations …
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