25 Years of AXIS
This month, Oakland’s AXIS Dance Company celebrates 25 years of physically integrated dance and leading-edge contemporary choreography. Dance Magazine gave a nod to this historic occasion with a news...
View ArticleReview Roundup
It’s a thrill to be writing reviews for Critical Dance and DanceTabs. Here’s for starters: *DanceTabs review of Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature, San Francisco, January 15, 2015 *Critical Dance review...
View ArticlePlaying Catch-up
After an extended break from the blogosphere, Speaking of Dance is back up and on the go. Here are a few things that happened recently: *Dance Magazine cover story on San Francisco Ballet’s Maria...
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San Francisco Ballet Programs 1 & 2
SF Ballet’s Maria Kochetkova in Helgi Tomasson’s Giselle. (c) Erik Tomasson. SF Ballet’s season began with two programs that ranged from Balanchine to the beyond. I shared my thoughts on DanceTabs:...
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February Review Redux
February came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. For the curious, here are the end-of-month notices. *Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion’s Pavement at YBCA in San Francisco, Feb. 19 (Critical Dance)...
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Ballet Reawakened: ABT’s new Sleeping Beauty
It was a thrill to be at the world premiere of American Ballet Theatre’s new production of “The Sleeping Beauty,” restored from historical documents by Alexei Ratmansky. It was a trip back in time, a...
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Let’s Get Wrecked: Dance Wrecking with Christy Funsch
Contemporary San Francisco dance artist Christy Funsch hosted a special kind of open rehearsal on Saturday, March 7: a Dance Wrecking, in which her colleagues Rowena Richie, Megan Nicely and Keith...
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Rogelio Lopez’s “Empty Spaces”: Dance as an Art of Redemption
Berkeley’s Shawl-Anderson Dance Center has been incubating modern dancers and choreographers since 1958. Lately it’s been especially fertile ground, nurturing resident artists like Tanya Chianese and...
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March Madness
March finished with a flurry of performances by three boldface names in Bay Area dance. Results were mixed, as results often are. For specifics, click below. San Francisco Ballet’s Don Quixote, with...
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April Accounting
Just a few of the many dance happenings in April… Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet gave the world premiere of Biophony, with a literally wild score I grappled with Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy at...
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