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23 MAY 2014

Art and the exploitation of dancers

 

The next time you invite potential donors to a fundraiser for your new arts project, consider making a centrepiece of naked dancers.

That’s what Marina Abramovic  – “the most influential performing artist working today,” according to MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch – did for a 2011 gala that raised $2.5

13 MAY 2014

The edge of stardom: Secundaria premieres in San Francisco

 

San Francisco may boast more Cuban ballet stars per square mile than any other dance capital outside Havana, but then tiny San Francisco boasts more than its fair share of a lot of cool things. So, on May 14, when the San Francisco Dance Film Festival airs the West …

1 MAY 2014

San Francisco Ballet’s Hummingbird Soars

 

Leigh Donlan reports from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco:

 

 

San Francisco Ballet presented the world première of Liam Scarlett’s Hummingbird on Tuesday night, a beautifully human work of massive proportions from the twenty-eight year old British choreographer and current Artist in Residence at The …