GOLDIES 2012: Joe Landini and the Garage
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY SAUL BROMBERGER AND SANDRA HOOVERRelated: GOLDIES 2012GOLDIES Choreographer, impresario, and arts advocate Joe Landini likes to say yes. "It's my philosophy to start that way," the...
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GUARDIAN PHOTO BY SAUL BROMBERGER AND SANDRA HOOVERRelated: GOLDIES 2012GOLDIES John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and Fayard and Harold Nicholas are among the dance...
View ArticleTango at Red Poppy Art House: A photographic foray
Tango is spicy music. It makes you think of deep red dresses, glasses of rich wine, and warm nights for taking a long walk with your lover. Although we didn’t have one-way tickets to Argentina, an...
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Garrett + Moulton Productions' enchanting 'Enchantment'Tanya Bello in Angles of EnchantmentPHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.comDANCE This weekend the parade of holiday entertainments started off on a festive...
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'Clas/sick Hip Hop' performers defy gravity, inspire aweDANCE Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' new Director of Performing Arts, received thunderous applause even before he had said...
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Risk-taking choreographers reached new heights in 2012From TransitPHOTO BY MARGO MORITZarts@sfbg.comYEAR IN DANCE Looking back on 2012's over 500 performances — as calculated by Dancers' Group — the...
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Collaborators challenge limitations in 'Your Body is Not a Shark'No fear: Your Body is Not a SharkPHOTO BY BEAU SANDERS/ RAINBEAU PICTURESarts@sfbg.comDANCE After a decade of dancing and choreographing...
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CounterPULSE tries out some fresh moves with its Queer Series of revealing duetsFaye Driscoll with Jesse ZarittPHOTO BY STEVEN SCHREIBERarts@sfbg.comTHEATER/DANCE Choreographer Mary Armentrout's...
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Robert Moses' Kin unveils triumphant collaboration 'Nevabawarldapece'Brendan Barthel and Norma Fong in NevabawarldapecePHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.comDANCE In a pre-rehearsal conversation at the ODC...
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Bebe Miller Company's imperfect, intriguing 'A History'arts@sfbg.comDANCE The Bebe Miller Company's A History at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last weekend proved to be both exhilarating and...
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Eckert and Simonse deliver uneven 'Shared Space Six'Dancers Todd Eckert and David Schleiffers at "Shared Space Six"PHOTO BY MARGO MORITZarts@sfbg.comDANCE Once a year, long-time colleagues Todd Eckert...
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Anthony Rizzi's glorious mash-up touches down at Kunst-Stoff ArtsAvant to live: Anthony RizziPHOTO BY THOMAS BRUCHERarts@sfbg.comDANCE What a fine mess Anthony Rizzi's An Attempt to Fail at...
View ArticleBlack Choreographers Festival takes flight
This weekend, go watch some dance. Sam Love and I stopped by Dance Mission this week to check out a final rehearsal of a piece choreographed by Gregory Dawson and left feeling elated. Dawson has...
View ArticleLive Shots: 'Dance + Diaspora' at ODC Theater
Strong drum beats, hip shimmies laden with bells and voices coming together in song. This show has it all. Presenting "Dance + Diaspora" two performances this Friday and Saturday -- pics above are from...
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Emerging choreographers Katharine Hawthorne and Tanya Bello offer auspicious premieresProject B. dancers Norma Fong and Katherine WellsPHOTO BY ADRIAN GREGORUTTIarts@sfbg.comDANCE Unlike more...
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Choreographer Faye Driscoll talks 'You're Me'A fine mess: Jesse Zaritt and Faye DriscollPHOTO BY STEVEN SCHREIBERarts@sfbg.comDANCE CounterPULSE always makes a point of thanking its volunteers. One can...
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'The Madness of the Elephant' uses music and dance to chart Guinea's political history'Elephant' in the room: Duniya Dance and Drum CompanyDANCE "Next door," you are told in the packed Senegalese...
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet triumphs with a 30th anniversary collaborationCenter of gravity: dancer Yujin KimPHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.comDANCE Watching premieres by artists with track records is almost...
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Falling for FACT/SF's 'Falling'Ups and downs: FACT/SF dancer Diane BurnsPHOTO BY KEGAN MARLINGarts@sfbg.comDANCE FACT/SF's new Falling is a conceptually demanding, convincingly realized 70-minute...
View ArticleTake my hand: Our trip to the Follies same-sex dance-off
Twirl time: Diane Willmott and Sarah Hughes from London, EnglandALL GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY CORTNEY CLIFTHad TLC's Dance Moms lead me astray? I expected cut-throat twirlers and an atmosphere you could cut...
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