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San Francisco Ballet principal Maria Kochetkova
On June 6 at 7:00 pm, a bevy of highly regarded principal dancers from the San Francisco Ballet, ODC Dance Company, Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, AXIS Dance Company, Smuin Ballet, Zhukov Dance Theater, Robert Moses’ Kin, and more, will perform in the first-ever Get in Front fundraiser at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater.
Get in Front is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping to “prevent cancer before …more…
Oakland Ballet Company
Oakland Ballet Company lends new meaning to the word ‘resilient.’ Founded by Ronn Guidi in 1965 (as Oakland Ballet), it developed a reputation for restaging – often with the participation of the original choreographers– classic early-20th-century ballets, such as Petrouchka, Les Biches, and Les Noces. Guidi retired in 1998. In the hands of an inexperienced director, the company collapsed eight years later. In 2007, Guidi came …more…
Smuin Ballet in Ma Cong's French Twist
Smuin Ballet has adopted the tagline “Beyond Ballet.” While it is true that the company’s dances run beyond the Romantic or classical style the word ballet generally calls to mind, much of the work is executed using traditional ballet vocabulary and all of it is performed by thoroughly trained classical dancers. Indeed, it is this that sets the late Michael Smuin’s 18-year-old troupe apart …more…
Alonzo King's Scheherazade
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet has gained notice the world over for its genre-bending, innovative contributions to 21st-century ballet. The company straddles the evanescent line between ballet and other, more modern forms of dance with alacrity.
In 2009, King was commissioned by Monaco Dance Forum to create a modern version of Scheherazade to inaugurate the Centenary of the storied Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (ground zero for dance, music and …more…
George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante
Ballet San Jose offers a mixed program April 13 through 15 to include three company premieres. The troupe, which has undergone an abrupt leadership change and now operates without an artistic director, appears at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in Program II of its 2012 spring season. It is worth noting that not a single work by indefatigable company founder and former artistic director Dennis …more…
Lauren Cuthbertson and Federico Bonelli in the Royal Ballet production of Romeo & Juliet
Well, not exactly. But it is just this sort of headline that Ballet in Cinema, a project of alternate content theater network Emerging Pictures, inspires. On March 22 at 12:30 pm, for $25, you can take a seat in the Grand Lake Theater, an Oakland, California movie house, and enjoy the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo …more…
Spring comes early for Bay Area dance lovers with March engagements by daring, evocative and critically acclaimed local and touring troupes. ...more...
Martha Graham is often referred to as the “mother of modern dance.” Her disdain for pretty, psychologically comforting movement proved revolutionary when she first started creating pieces in 1923. Another of her breaks with tradition — perhaps even more shocking at the time — was her consistent employment of dancers of varying races and ethnic groups. ...more...
The San Francisco Ballet is so technically strong, so “deep,” to borrow a term from team sports rhetoric, lavish praise can be extended to its soloists and even to the ranks of the corps. ...more...
The overindulgence of the holiday season – to include gorging on myriad Nutcracker interpretations — leaves one with no alternative than to look forward to an early 2012 filled with exciting dance offerings. Overwhelmed as we are with anticipation, if we end by succumbing to temptation, who can blame us? ...more...
Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is known for romantic immediacy. In my college Russian class, where we recited his works by heart, I could never get past the third line of the poem “I Loved You” without bursting into tears. Pushkin achieved what most writers only dream of, fusing as he did both the sound and meaning of language to create irresistible emotional impact. ...more...
For me growing up, every September meant Nutcracker auditions, and October and November were filled with rehearsals, costume fittings and the thrill of anticipation. Years after we graduated, my fellow students and I still pined for Nutcracker season every fall.
The storied holiday classic, it seems, is not only addictive to young dancers, it is also a perennial family magnet and a tremendous moneymaker. In some U.S. cities, it …more…
ODC Dance Company performs The Velveteen Rabbit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
In a holiday performance landscape populated by an endless procession of Nutcrackers, Nutcracker spinoffs and Nutcracker knockoffs, San Francisco’s compassionate ODC Dance Company proffers a refreshing alternative. The Velveteen Rabbit, in its 25th anniversary season, is a lively and engaging retelling of Margery Williams’ classic children’s story. The piece, which features a bevy of talented …more…
Muriel Maffre as the Daughter of the King in The Soldier's Tale
During her 17 years as Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, French-born Muriel Maffre gained a reputation for technical, as well as dramatic, brilliance. In such roles as the raging Carabosse and the gentle Lilac Fairy, both of Sleeping Beauty, she captivated audiences and critics alike with the specificity, immediacy and sheer intensity of her characterizations. I always said …more…
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