April 15, 2016
SF Opera Lab’s Cine-Concert
Le Hot Jazz
The third production of SF Opera Lab was the 2003 animated film by French-born filmmaker Sylvain Chomet, Les Triplettes de Belleville. What makes the film...
Jaime Robles
April 10, 2016
Poets in the garden
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genera, species.
Since the 18th century scientists have used Linnaeus’ nested hierarchy to categorize and classify nature. Based on...
April 3, 2016
SF Opera Lab’s intriguing first season
“Milica, friend, you are leaving home forever!”
And so opens the a cappella opera, Svadba-Wedding, presented by SF Opera Lab as its second program in its...
March 19, 2016
Trajal Harrell at Cal Performances
At the beginning of the performance the choreographer Trajal Harrell announces that what will be presented is not The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the...
March 15, 2016
San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5 opens
The incredible lightness of ballet
San Francisco Ballet opened its Program 5 on Wednesday with two repertory pieces: Jerome Robbins’ lovely Dances at a Gathering and Yuri Possokhov’s Swimmer. Pieces...
February 20, 2016
San Francisco Ballet’s “Swan Lake”
Mythic Swan Lake
As part of its program of outreach San Francisco Ballet presented a weekend-long symposium along with the opening of its current production of Swan Lake this past weekend. There were...