Janice Berman

What can you say about a dance company in fewer than 140 characters?

In “Story/Time” Bill T. Jones uses chance, dance, music, and narrative to make every minute count.

Inspired by the work of John Cage, a noted choreographer’s Story/Time didn’t happen merely by chance.

In a program highlighting Yuri Possokhov’s gifted choreography, the San Francisco Ballet has a dance with Dante.

The San Francisco Ballet presented a varying program — ranging from Mark Morris' Beaux and wayne McGregor's Chroma to Christopher Wheeldon's Number Nine — that seemed oddly fitting for the day it fell on, Valentines Day.

After half a year of mystery and doubt, the company's executive director begins to clarify the direction the company will take, its new partnership with American Ballet Theatre, and the season it will present.

Helgi Tomasson's Nutcracker at the S.F. Ballet goes straight to a little girl's dreams with amazing design, realism, superb dancers, and the perfect tale to leave audiences enthralled.

Mystery surrounds a noted ballet company’s plans for 2012 and extreme restrictions on its longtime artistic director.

Merce Cunningham requested that his dance company disband after his death. On their final appearance at Stanford Lively Arts, the troupe performs his last work beautifully.

Auguste Rodin and Isadora Duncan, both pioneers of natural movement in the arts, were natural allies. Now former ballet dancer Muriel Maffre looks at that revolution through a class connected to the new Rodin Exhibition at the Cantor Museum.