Carla reported on Smuin Ballet, SFDanceworks, SKETCH6, the West Wave Dance Festival, and Mark Morris’ Layla and Majnun for Dance Europe, on Post:Ballet and more for KQED Arts:…
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On her 50th anniversary tour, Twyla Tharp brought a troupe of accomplished dancers, including some veterans from her previous projects, to Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall this past weekend. The company performed two premieres, the impressive Preludes and Fugues, the less impressive …
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An open love letter to Sasha Waltz and her “Guests” here would be inappropriate on many levels, so I will offer up the inadequacy of a review. Cal Performances brought this Berlin based company to Zellerbach Hall this weekend to …
The 18th of September proved a global nail-biter, but after Scotland voted to uphold their historically rocky 300-year union with England, Mark Morris’ The Muir and A Wooden Tree, which opened his troupe’s season at Cal Performances in Berkeley one week later, proved a graceful though decidedly …
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The Australian Ballet, under the artistic direction of David McAllister, brought Graeme Murphy’s bold adaptation of Swan Lake to Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall this weekend, and the modernist revision certainly had its moments. Murphy’s rendering casts Princess Diana, Camilla …
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