All posts tagged "ballet"
Blog-Dance
A Gala Celebration with San Francisco Ballet
November 4, 2026As usual for these events, Wednesday night’s audience came in their finest duds — men in...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Dance
Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Offers Anointed, The Hunt, Cry and Revelations
October 26, 2026Luckily, Robert Battle needs no anointing. His choreography speaks for itself. In the company premiere of...
Movies
Movie Review: Black Swan
October 23, 2026Darren Aronofsky’s films (which include Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler) roil with striking, horrific...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
October 23, 2026Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
Movies
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
October 8, 2026Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
July 3, 2026In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
Dance
Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
June 28, 2026More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Dance
Five Questions with Oregon Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Christopher Stowell
May 7, 2026We have created a lean, but very powerful group of artists with an incredible work ethic...
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Blog-Dance
Smuin Ballet and Diablo Ballet: Two Praiseworthy Bay Area Dance Companies
May 3, 2026There are a few privileges that come with the role of dance critic. One that is...
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