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29 APRIL 2014

Mozart, Morris and Mizrahi do Handel: Acis and Galatea

 

 

“Please locate the nearest emergency,” intoned the voice on loudspeaker, sparking the first of many chuckles from Saturday night’s audience at Cal Performances in Berkeley, at the opening of Mark Morris’ latest adventure in opera. Morris gets Handel like no one else gets him: he crafted a towering …

24 APRIL 2014

A great American ballerina bows out

 

 

A great American ballerina will say Farewell to the stage in a few days – but that’s only one reason to catch Oregon Ballet Theatre at the Newmark Theatre in Portland. The company has been dancing with great pizzazz all season, and its latest offering boasts two company …

10 APRIL 2014

How to watch dance

A recent thread on Quora addressed the question: Is there a secret (a “how to”) to listening to classical music?

I have started listening to classical music, I really like it, and I am at a stage where I have a few pieces that I love. But because it is …

9 APRIL 2014

How to avoid a train wreck in dance class

 

When you show up to ballet class hung-over, under-caffeinated and in a general fog, and there’s a substitute teacher who throws a brand new grand allegro at you in six sets of eight with multiple pirouettes and every second jump battu, sometimes all you can think about is …