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23 MARCH 2014

Andy Goldsworthy-inspired boulders and bones @ODCsf

 

 

… I would walk alone,
In storm and tempest, or in starlight nights
Beneath the quiet heavens; and, at that time
Would feel whate‘er there is of power in sound
To breathe an elevated mood by form
Or image unprofaned; and I would stand,
Beneath some rock listening

19 MARCH 2014

Dangerous secrets and all that jazz, from Pacific Northwest Ballet

 

“Secrets are dangerous things,” intoned Robert Redford, the quintessential good guy with a terrible secret, in his 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep. Music from this and other spine-tinglers, all in a moody, minimalist vein, form the score to Alejandro Cerrudo’s Memory Glow, the latest addition …

17 MARCH 2014

Seeking Redemption: Like Lazarus Did

Leigh Donlan reports from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco:

 

 

Stephen Petronio’s Like Lazarus Did made its West Coast première at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday night, easily charming the audience with the local San Francisco Girls Chorus angelically singing, “I …

14 MARCH 2014

Yerbabuena in the Rain

Leigh Donlan reports from Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley:

Eva Yerbabuena, the gypsy queen of the flamenco dance world, is in the process of renovating her art form, as demonstrated by Lluvia (‘Rain’), Ballet Flamenco’s evening- length performance which kicked off Cal Performances’ Focus on Flamenco series at Zellerbach

13 MARCH 2014

San Francisco Ballet’s Cinderella: the magic goes on… and on…

 

After last season’s premières by Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella opened last night in San Francisco. Packed with feats of amazing stagecraft, this lavish production centers around a magic tree that grows at Cinderella’s mother’s gravesite, and shelters a covey of phantasmagorical woodland creatures …