“Drink wine. Eat soup. Ask questions.” Those were choreographer Cid Pearlman’s instructions to us before the first run of Economies of Effort: 3 at the Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz on Thursday evening, Mar. 17th. Far from the soothing “silence your cellphones and locate the nearest emergency exit” that …
San Francisco jolted by the titanic Dances at a Gathering and L’Allegro
Spring is tiptoeing in, but you would never know it from the winter storms that have battered the San Francisco Bay Area. …
Annie Leibovitz Writes History with WOMEN: New Portraits
Leigh Donlan reported from the Presidio:
San Francisco will be the only West Coast host in the global tour of Annie Leibovitz’s WOMEN: New Portraits, opening March 25 at 649 Old Mason Street in the Presidio’s Crissy Field. It is free to the public. …
New York Theatre Ballet and NYU Steel Raise the Roof at New York Live Arts
Rarely these days do ballet companies place large bets on emerging choreographers, particularly female choreographers.
Rarely do the East and Left Coasts of dance acknowledge each other’s existence.
And rarely do ballet companies take enormous musical risks.…
A mind-blowing Dorian Gray at Milwaukee Ballet
Proving once again that great dance flourishes beyond the East and West coasts, Dorian Gray materialized at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee in February.…