http://calitreview.com An arts and culture magazine. Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://calitreview.com/26441 http://calitreview.com/26441#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 13:15:33 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=26441 http://calitreview.com/26441/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/26146 http://calitreview.com/26146#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 18:19:38 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=26146 http://calitreview.com/26146/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/26086 http://calitreview.com/26086#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:35:06 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=26086 corrida if they find neither rhyme, reason, nor much musical innovation in Don Quixote: It is still that sampler of delicacies which, done right, can end the dance season on a crescendo, and on April 27, San Francisco Ballet surpassed all expectations! The fun begins when your companion of the evening points out querulously that there is a horse trailer parked at the stage door. You explain, “For the donkey.”]]> http://calitreview.com/26086/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/25934 http://calitreview.com/25934#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:40:26 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=25934 Artifact, I felt dead, but it was a good dead!]]> http://calitreview.com/25934/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/25925 http://calitreview.com/25925#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:49:54 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=25925 http://calitreview.com/25925/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/25714 http://calitreview.com/25714#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:26 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=25714 Triangle of Squinches plays out in front of a backdrop of several hundred silvered bungee cords, stretched perpendicular to the Novellus Theater stage floor so that they form a brilliantine thicket through which dancers will emerge, and retreat. The dancers will pluck the cords like harp strings, lean in to, ascend and descend them.]]> http://calitreview.com/25714/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/25584 http://calitreview.com/25584#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:16:56 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=25584 The Four Temperaments, to music by Paul Hindemith. Daniel Deivison-Oliveira and Kristina Lind open the work, each offering an unfolding hand to the other. As she recreates the off-balance pas de deux, Lind carries the very texture of the Balanchine line—long-limbed, with generous extensions—inviting comparisons to Patricia Neary.]]> http://calitreview.com/25584/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/25051 http://calitreview.com/25051#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:49:32 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=25051 Raymonda Act III, the company re-stakes its claim as a classical company to be reckoned with.]]> http://calitreview.com/25051/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24893 http://calitreview.com/24893#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:46:49 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=24893 http://calitreview.com/24893/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/24700 http://calitreview.com/24700#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:38:10 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=24700 Transit creates a recognizable place, but the dancers, while mostly a spirited lot, seem to lack the spitfire facility of their predecessors, and here I am thinking of Shannon D. Mitchell, Robert Moses, Brian Fisher, Kevin Ware, KT Nelson and Yukie Fujimoto, a vanished comet of former ODC stars.]]> http://calitreview.com/24700/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24245 http://calitreview.com/24245#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:48:42 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=24245 Mercurial Manoeuvres, which is part of the Inside the Dancer’s Studio program to be presented Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3.]]> http://calitreview.com/24245/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24216 http://calitreview.com/24216#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:41:24 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=24216 http://calitreview.com/24216/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24097 http://calitreview.com/24097#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:53:17 +0000 Toba Singer http://calitreview.com/?p=24097 http://calitreview.com/24097/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24057 http://calitreview.com/24057#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:40:59 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=24057 Beaux, set to Martinu's Concerto for Harpsichord (1935), is a gentle work created for the company men. In contrast to the usual bravura leaps and beats normally used to showcase talented male dancers, Beaux explores different territory. In a Peter-Pan-and-the-Lost-Boys manner, Morris has the men create a visual picture of the hidden, light-hearted youth inside, and the sunny, patterned costumes and backdrop by designer Isaac Mizrahi underpin Morris’s intent. The dancers were equally matched, equally wonderful.]]> http://calitreview.com/24057/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/23911 http://calitreview.com/23911#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:48:48 +0000 Hanna Oldsman http://calitreview.com/?p=23911 DGV seems to me largely dependent on how irritating one finds Michael Nyman's driving minimalist score. The piece (MGV: Musique à Grande Vitesse) was composed at the request of a European railroad company; and if Nyman's music may at first express the ratcheting excitement of being propelled forward at high-speeds, it soon comes to convey instead the tedium of a long train ride. ]]> http://calitreview.com/23911/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/23558 http://calitreview.com/23558#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:29 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=23558 http://calitreview.com/23558/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/23295 http://calitreview.com/23295#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:25:33 +0000 K. W. Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=23295 http://calitreview.com/23295/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/22865 http://calitreview.com/22865#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:54:55 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=22865 should be afraid of.]]> http://calitreview.com/22865/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/22581 http://calitreview.com/22581#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:00:45 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=22581 http://calitreview.com/22581/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/22407 http://calitreview.com/22407#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:07:42 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=22407 http://calitreview.com/22407/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/21941 http://calitreview.com/21941#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:21:07 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=21941 http://calitreview.com/21941/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/21263 http://calitreview.com/21263#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:14:17 +0000 Hanna Oldsman http://calitreview.com/?p=21263 http://calitreview.com/21263/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/20566 http://calitreview.com/20566#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:20:54 +0000 Hanna Oldsman http://calitreview.com/?p=20566 http://calitreview.com/20566/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/20479 http://calitreview.com/20479#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:35:44 +0000 Hanna Oldsman http://calitreview.com/?p=20479 Ocean's Kingdom joins a growing pile of choreographic train wrecks (a drab revival of Seven Deadly Sins and the vapid For the Love of Duke were last years' attempts to bring in new audiences), it seems NYCB is more concerned with ticket sales than artistic integrity. There are certainly many composers and choreographers, young and established, who are doing exciting work, and looking for work. Why not give them, and the audience, a chance?]]> http://calitreview.com/20479/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/20354 http://calitreview.com/20354#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:07:39 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=20354 Dear Miss Cline by Choreographer-in-Residence Amy Seiwert, which she has described as her most "Smuin-esque" piece to date. Set to ten classic Patsy Cline recordings, it is a sometimes comic, often touching, exploration of interpersonal relationships. The company has a real winner with this ballet. A big plus were the cheerful costumes by Jo Ellen Arntz (with Amy Seiwert). They captured the period of the late 1950s/early 1960s without descending into cliché-ridden “Hee Haw” country kitsch. ]]> http://calitreview.com/20354/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/20242 http://calitreview.com/20242#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:21:52 +0000 Hanna Oldsman http://calitreview.com/?p=20242 http://calitreview.com/20242/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/20108 http://calitreview.com/20108#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:30:05 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=20108 It is wonderful to be dancing in an ensemble again. The company is tremendously talented, and we all feed off each other's energy and abilities. The familial atmosphere works. All the dancers seek to make their fellow company members look their best. There is a sense of common good — a sense of community.]]> http://calitreview.com/20108/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/19767 http://calitreview.com/19767#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:37:43 +0000 Ethan Kanfer http://calitreview.com/?p=19767 http://calitreview.com/19767/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18878 http://calitreview.com/18878#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:08:03 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=18878 Dance in the Desert showcases companies from around the world, across the United States, and from the neighboring states of California, Utah, and Arizona, as well as highlighting Nevada's own talent.]]> http://calitreview.com/18878/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18784 http://calitreview.com/18784#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:30:30 +0000 Geri Jeter http://calitreview.com/?p=18784 http://calitreview.com/18784/feed 0