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29 AUGUST 2014

ODC sheds light – and shadow – on how dance is made

Leigh Donlan reported from ODC Theatre, San Francisco:

 

 

On Sunday, ODC concluded their four-week Music Moves Festival with Theater Unplugged, a behind-the-scenes look at how dance is engineered. Two alumni from ODC’s choreographers’ Pilot Program, Antoine Hunter and Milissa Payne Bradley, were each given a new 40 …

29 JULY 2014

RAWdance Turns 10

Leigh Donlan reports from Z Space in San Francisco:

 

 

RAWdance presented two premieres at Z Space in San Francisco this weekend, commemorating their 10th anniversary summer season. Burn In was an intriguing revision of a previous work. And Turing’s Apple, the strongest piece of the evening, was a …

1 JULY 2014

Mind over matter: Arianne MacBean and The Big Show Co.

Leigh Donlan reports from ODC in San Francisco:

 

 

Los Angeles based choreographer Arianne MacBean and her Big Show Co. brought an introspective performance to ODC this past weekend, reminding us that dance theater is alive and well in Southern California. Her first work, The People Go Where the

10 JUNE 2014

Captivating New Filipino Cinema 2014 in San Francisco

 

Those who come to the New Filipino Cinema festival at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this week never having seen a Filipino movie are likely to be shocked and exhilarated – though the debate over whether the industry has entered a new Golden Age, or continues …

10 JUNE 2014

In the Tree of Smoke at the Great Star Theatre

Leigh Donlan reports from San Francisco’s Chinatown:

 

 

San Francisco would not be the great city that it is without its artists. But like many others, the artists are increasingly being forced out of their hometown by continuously rising rents, evictions, lack of jobs and the intensifying funding drought. …