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...
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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...
November 6, 2015
Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet presents “The Propelled Heart”
Top o’ the Line
I’ve often attended and reviewed Alonso King’s Lines Ballet over the past ten years. Without a doubt they are one of my...
October 25, 2015
Liss Fain Dance at ODC Theater
Liss Fain Dance describes its production Your Story Was This as “an immersive performance installation.” That doesn’t give us a sense of how central dance is to the work, but it does reveal the importance of the audience and the...
October 23, 2015
Preview of Company C in “Arcane: A Tale of All Hallow’s Eve”
Halloween, a sacred night celebrated around the world that leads into the Day of the Dead, is the night where the veil between life and death is thin. It is a night of communicating with ancestors while bringing to light aspects of our character with roots in imagination and esoteric knowledge.
Arcane: A Tale of All Hallow’s Eve is a new full-length work by Company C Contemporary Ballet, based in Pleasant Hill, California. Recently I had the...
October 16, 2015
Twyla Tharp celebrates new work with Cal Performances
Two Fanfares to celebrate 50 years of dance
About her recent...