dance Reviews
May 6, 2008
From Beautiful to Dutiful
San Francisco Ballet busts out 10 new works, in a wonderful collusion of wide-ranging music and compelling dancing.
February 19, 2008
The War of the Wilis
Two ballet companies stage Giselle on the same weekend, and age and experience count in both.
February 5, 2008
Fill ‘er Up
Virgil Thomson scores propel two American choreographies that the San Francisco Ballet dances with verve.
January 29, 2008
Total ImMERCEsion
Merce Cunningham shuffles sight, sound, and movement in two distinct versions of eyeSpace.
November 13, 2007
Venturing Into the New
The American Ballet Theatre and Berkeley Symphony Orchestra are the complete, almost too-perfect, package.
October 30, 2007
October 23, 2007
Born Again, Leaping and Clapping
The Oakland Ballet is back, with comic relief and copious applause.
September 25, 2007
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