May 5, 2017
Alonzo King Lines Ballet: The language of dance
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Jaime Robles
May 3, 2017
Peter Brook’s “Battlefield” at A.C.T.
In step with Destiny
Peter Brook speaks warmly about traveling outside of Europe with a group of actors in the early 1970s. This group would eventually form the core of the International...
April 28, 2017
San Francisco Ballet’s enchanting “Cinderella”
San Francisco Ballet opened its captivating production of Cinderella this past weekend, showing again how deeply rooted folk and fairy tales reside in our hearts and minds. And how well suited ballet is to their imaginative...
April 23, 2017
Cutting Ball Theater’s Phèdre
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April 12, 2017
“Let the Body Speak” in the poetry of dance
Alonzo King Lines Ballet collaborates with poet Bob Holman
Collaboration is core to the ballets presented by Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Over the years the company has collaborated with mezzos and bassos singing classical art songs, jazz singers, jazz...
April 5, 2017
“Needles and Opium” at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater
The poetics of Robert Lepage
Asking whether one prefers Robert Lepage’s theater or the theater of, say, Annie Baker, is like asking whether one prefers poetry to novels. Where most...