Pacific Northwest Ballet Jerome Robbins Centennial Celebration: Jerome Robbins' Male Solos
Works & Process
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
October 3, 2018

Jerome Robbins' centenary is being celebrated in many different ways in many different places.( In homage, the Paris Opera Ballet will perform Robbins most explicitly American ballet "Fancy Free" set specifically on a side street of New York City on a hot summer night in 1944.) But one of the most intriguing

“Bach Cello Suites,” “Dances of Isadora Duncan – A Solo Tribute,” “Bzzz,” “The Barbarian Nights, or First Dawns of the World (excerpt)”
Fall For Dance Festival
Boston Ballet, Sara Mearns, Caleb Teicher & Company and Cie Hervé Koubi
New York City Center
New York, NY
October 1, 2018

Perhaps the best attribute of the Fall For Dance Festival, this year in its 15^th season, is its ability to expose viewers to works and artists they may not otherwise see

"Pepperland"
Mark Morris Dance Group
Zellerbach Hall
Berkeley, CA
September 28, 2018

Can Mark Morris disappoint? Yes and no. The recent “Pepperland” performance at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall showed his company at the top of its abilities. These magnificent dancers probably couldn’t present a sloppy show if they tried. A ballet company’s quality is in major parts determined by the quality of its corps. The Mark Morris Dance Group is a corps made up of Principals. Elizabeth

"Schubert Scherzo," "The Eternal Idol," "Sinfonietta" "Echo," "Merely Players" "Blue Until June"
Smuin Contemporary Ballet
Palace of Fine Arts
San Francisco, CA
September 30, 2018

Smuin Contemporary Ballet, as it is known today, is that rare story of a company surviving without missing a beat even after the unexpected death of its founder. Michael Smuin in this case. Less than a decade after his acrimonious departure from San Francisco Ballet, with which he had been associated off and on since

"death"
Fact/SF
CounterPulse Theater
San Francisco, CA
Sept, 27, 2018

Sometimes a show leaves you slightly dissatisfied because it didn’t quite hit its target. Yet with choreographer/Artistic Director Charles Slender-White’s “death” chronological and imaginative time, the examination of the audience/performers’ relationship, the ingenious use of Counter Pulse’s physical space, and the slippery topic of this inquiry, you couldn’t help admire the endeavor's complexity. FACT/SF’s three male (Slender-White, Keanu

“Make Believe”
Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre
Dance Place
Washington, DC
September 15, 2018

As a choreographer, Rosie Herrera never fails to surprise. Her past creations range from melting a chocolate bunny with a blowdryer to throwing a girl into a birthday cake. In her company’s most recent performance at Dance Place, an inflatable bounce house takes over as an unexpected but welcomed element, representing the innocent ease that characterizes a child’s ability to believe. This past Saturday, the

"Stabat Mater" "Mad Brass"
Garrett + Moulton Productions
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
September 6, 2018

Using less experienced dancers as a backdrop to soloists can boast of a long tradition in Ballet. But when Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, each after long independent careers in contemporary dance, decided to bring a "movement choir" of not-yet professional dancers to their co-choreographies, they stepped into unknown territory. Former tapper, theater director and Merce Cunningham dancer Moulton