It was Super Bowl week in San Francisco. Amid the hoopla preceding Sunday’s faceoff between godlike quarterbacks Cam Newton and Peyton Manning, George Balanchine’s Apollo appeared on the stage of Walnut Creek’s Del Valle Theatre to trace the making of a supreme athlete.…
To any world-weary wanderer who is questioning the meaning of life, I’d prescribe Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. I’d lead them gently to the lip of the stage where we’d sit and gaze upon the magnificence of this masterpiece. …
Rumors of a détente between contact improv, ballet, and Japanese-inspired dance theatre have been vastly exaggerated.…
When Leigh and I went down to San Jose to see Silicon Valley Ballet in their most recent program last month, little did we know that that was to be the company’s swan song. I raved over the company in Anna Lopez Ochoa’s Prism and Leigh was awed at their …