Jaime Robles – Page 46 – Repeat Performances

May 1, 2010

Compañia Nacional de Danza de España at SF Performances

Blue, I want you blue ... As an epigraph to Nacho Duato’s ballet “Cobalto,” presented this past weekend at Yerba Buena for the Arts’ Novellus Theater by Compañia Nacional de Danza de España, the program notes...

Categories: dance

April 30, 2010

’59 Pink Thunderbird’ at the College of Marin

Hero of the West When a very drunk Roy talks his younger brother Ray into “playing war” one evening in the alleyway behind the local saloon in tiny Maynard, Texas, he runs into some of the same problems he ran into in Vietnam....

Categories: theater

March 21, 2010

‘The Little Mermaid’ at SF Ballet

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="468"] Yuan Yuan Tan and Lloyd Riggins in The Little Mermaid, photo by Eric Tomasson[/caption] The blue world of unrequited love “The Little Mermaid” has been adapted many times in many...

Categories: dance

March 19, 2010

Ain’t Misbehavin” at San Jose Rep

Fun and naughty from a by-gone era ... When Christopher Morgan appears suspended above the sets of the San Jose Repertory’s current production of Ain’t Misbehavin’, he’s shirtless, his pants held up (just) by a pair of glittery...

Categories: theater

March 18, 2010

Sara Kraft at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The brain—frontal lobes and all ... How the brain works—how it sorts things, compiles...

Categories: theater

March 16, 2010

Thomas Adès recital at SF Performances

An intricate play of wit Hurtling forward with barely a breath’s pause, the British composer and pianist Thomas Adès moved from Schubert’s Allegretto in C Minor,...

Categories: music