Jaime Robles – Page 29 – Repeat Performances

January 24, 2016

San Francisco Ballet’s Program 1

San Francisco Ballet opens the season fresh and snappy On Sunday SF Ballet opened its 2016 season with three short pieces by three of its favorite choreographers – Helgi Tomasson, Yuri Possokhov and...

Categories: dance

January 23, 2016

Cal Performances presents “Rice”

Cloud Gate Dance Theater’s dream of life This past weekend Cal Performances presented the Taiwan-based dance group Cloud Gate Dance Theater in their latest...

Categories: dance

December 19, 2015

The elegant ‘Forever Tango’

There is a famous tango scene in the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) in which Rudolph Valentino slinks around the floor with Beatrice Dominguez. He does a sultry job of it, despite the gaucho boots and long spurs, enough...

Categories: dance

December 8, 2015

San Francisco Opera’s multiple visions of “The House of Usher”

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Categories: opera

December 5, 2015

Word for Word in literal Holiday High Jinx

Bums, Broads and Broadway Word for Word performs a beautifully choreographed program with three short stories at Z Below this holiday season. And when I say choreographed I mean that in every sense of the word. The...

Categories: theater

November 28, 2015

The Jewelry Box: A Christmas gift

The Christmas season is notorious for old chestnuts, like The Nutcracker and Dickens’ Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. “Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer”. OMG. – Christmas carols. They may...

Categories: theater