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28 OCTOBER 2014

Sasha Waltz & Guests: A Love Letter

Leigh Donlan reports from Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley:

 

 
An open love letter to Sasha Waltz and her “Guests” here would be inappropriate on many levels, so I will offer up the inadequacy of a review. Cal Performances brought this Berlin based company to Zellerbach Hall this weekend to …

25 OCTOBER 2014

Have We Come A Long Way, Baby? asks Hope Mohr

 

It was an ironic choice to use the catchphrase of an ad campaign that ripped off the women’s liberation movement to sell its product as the headline for an evening celebrating four generations of women pioneers of post-modern dance.

That 1968 Virginia Slims campaign (“you’ve come a long way, …

25 OCTOBER 2014

Pink Martini and Balanchine for Oregon Ballet Theatre at 25

 

Ballet to the People meant to show up at Oregon Ballet Theatre in time to gatecrash company class. But on the way to the studio she succumbed to the siren song of Mother Foucault’s Bookshop. With its vintage office furniture and massive, mismatched, hardwood bookshelves, old and new literary …

23 OCTOBER 2014

Gripping tales of lust and regret from the Joffrey Ballet

 

The Joffrey Ballet’s ambitious mixed bill, Stories in Motion, exploded onstage at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on September 20th: three ballets that trace a timeline of the infiltration of Modernism in ballet – from George Balanchine’s final work for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1929, …