The inventive Robert Dekkers is dreaming up new ways to challenge his dancers. This time he’s collaborating with architect Robby Gilson and composer-violinist Matthew Pierce. Join Post:Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on July 18th and 19th for their fourth San Francisco season, in a mixed program …
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Ballet To The People is no fan of galas, but here is one that sounds irresistible.
For over 100 years, the medieval Olavinlinna (St. Olaf’s Castle) in an idyllic lake setting in the southeast of Finland has been home to the famous Savonlinna Opera Festival. An awe-inspiring venue for opera, …
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Transcript of conversation on the way out of Hertz Hall at the end of Cal Performances’ Wednesday night presentation of the Mark Morris Dance Group that marked the opening of the exuberantly named Ojai North! Festival:
Carla: I hope you know the way back to the car. We …
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Spring of 2012 saw the birth of a strange and wonderful piece of physical theatre at Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab, in the shadow of the United States Capitol Building in downtown Washington, D.C. London-trained American actor and director, John Michael MacDonald, premiered The Nightmare Dreamer in this black box, an …
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No one knows what went down that night in 1964 after young Olympic gold medalist Cassius Clay defeated world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, in a performance to rival that of any Russian ballerina. Clay and three close buddies Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X spent …
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