With summer just around the corner, ODC flung their doors wide open this weekend for their third annual Walking Distance Dance Festival in San Francisco’s Mission District. Three dance programs at various ODC locations – all …
The glittering La Bayadère – conceived by French ballet master extraordinaire Marius Petipa and set in an improbable Indian kingdom – premiered in St. Petersburg in 1877, at a time of official Russian backlash against the importation of popular Italian stars, known as the “Italian invasion.” Homegrown Ekaterina …
Ballet companies everywhere are trying to stay relevant, agonizing over how to build audiences and attract a younger demographic to the opera house.
Oakland Ballet’s straightforward strategy takes ballet to the streets, literally and figuratively. Their latest program, Oakland-esque, a love letter to the artists and musicians …
Michael Pink’s reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale for Milwaukee Ballet, set to a bold, original score by Philip Feeney, is a thing of spine-tingling beauty, and an engrossing story that delivers world-class dancing with production values worthy of Broadway.
Mirror Mirror‘s quixotic glamour, visual thrills …