Today is the 100th anniversary of the premiere of a Stravinsky masterpiece, cause of great fury and consternation at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées at the time. Music and dance were forever changed by the arrival of the Rite of Spring.
Watch the replay of yesterday’s historic live broadcast from the …
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Performance artist Marilee Talkington wants to make a baby. And she wants to turn it into art. So she’s inviting an audience to witness this stage of her fertility treatment, which involves twice-daily self-administered hormone injections. Some of these will take place in public spaces around San Francisco, and …
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Smuin Ballet is wrapping up their San Francisco season this coming weekend and taking their Spring program on the road. If you miss them at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, catch them in Mountain View, Walnut Creek or Carmel through June 9th. Read what we thought about their …
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Last week was Chris Wheeldon Week in San Francisco, with Ballet in Cinema’s broadcast of the Royal Ballet in Alice in Wonderland in Bay Area theatres, and the premiere of Cinderella at San Francisco Ballet. It was Standing Room Only every night at the War Memorial Opera House. We only …
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What we thought of Oakland Ballet’s daring updates of Les Biches, Le Spectre de la Rose (Bloom), and Pulcinella: read about it in our review in the Huffington Post.…
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