Jaime Robles – Page 49 – Repeat Performances

February 6, 2010

‘The Weir’ at San Jose Repertory Theater

A man walks into a pub ... One by one, three men enter a small, dilapidated pub in rural Ireland: they are Jack (Robert Sicular), a contentious old “bollocks” who owns the local garage; Brendan (Alex Moggridge), the affable young barkeep; and Jim...

Categories: theater

San Francisco Ballet’s Balanchine Masterworks

The mystery of blue When the curtain opens on the San Francisco Ballet’s program of “Balanchine’s Masterpieces,” the audience beholds a field of ballerinas in long dresses of semitransparent tulle, not quite as...

Categories: dance

February 4, 2010

Ronald K. Brown and Evidence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

A devotion to the spiritual This past weekend saw the Ronald K. Brown dance company, Evidence, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Brown’s 25-year-old company is based in Brooklyn, New York, but the dance they perform is based in Brown’s understanding and adaption of African dance forms. Several of his more famous pieces were commissioned by and remain a part of the repertory of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. The company performed two of these Ailey pieces,...

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January 31, 2010

Ensemble Parallèle present ‘Wozzeck’

Darkness unto death ... Startling and emotionally complex, the music of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck weaves through the story of Franz Wozzeck, threading his mad and despairing visions with rich instrumental color. This past...

Categories: opera

January 27, 2010

Smuin Ballet’s Winter Concert Preview

Discovering new territory ...

Categories: dance

December 6, 2009

Renee Fleming at Cal Performances’ Zellerbach Hall

Loving the light In her introduction, Renee Fleming, elegantly gowned in turquoise green on the stage of Cal Performances’ Zellerbach Hall last Sunday, remarked that now seemed to be the time for Olivier Messiaen’s...

Categories: opera