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29 JUNE 2013

Savonlinna: Ballet Gala in a Fairy-Tale Castle

Ballet To The People is no fan of galas, but here is one that sounds irresistible.

For over 100 years, the medieval Olavinlinna (St. Olaf’s Castle) in an idyllic lake setting in the southeast of Finland has been home to the famous Savonlinna Opera Festival. An awe-inspiring venue for opera, …

17 JUNE 2013

Mark Morris, The Bad Plus, and The Rite of Spring

Transcript of conversation on the way out of Hertz Hall at the end of Cal Performances’ Wednesday night presentation of the Mark Morris Dance Group that marked the opening of the exuberantly named Ojai North! Festival:

Carla: I hope you know the way back to the car. We …

14 JUNE 2013

The Nightmare Dreamer, now haunting London

Spring of 2012 saw the birth of a strange and wonderful piece of physical theatre at Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab, in the shadow of the United States Capitol Building in downtown Washington, D.C. London-trained American actor and director, John Michael MacDonald, premiered The Nightmare Dreamer in this black box, an …

7 JUNE 2013

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”

No one knows what went down that night in 1964 after young Olympic gold medalist Cassius Clay defeated world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, in a performance to rival that of any Russian ballerina. Clay and three close buddies Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X spent …