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Author Archives: Claudia Bauer
Tonight’s the Night: Post:Ballet’s “Seconds”
Robert Dekkers’s Post:Ballet launches its second home season with shows tonight and tomorrow night at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Should be an adventurous and beautifully danced performance. Sincere thanks to the SF Arts Monthly for publishing my feature story … Continue reading
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Surprise Attack: FACT/SF’s Home Season 3.0
Surprise Attack: FACT/SF’s Home Season 3.0 The Garage, San Francisco, April 8-10 & 13-15, 2011 Brave is the person who sits in the front row at a FACT/SF show. One has to be prepared for unsettling touched-by-a-stranger encounters, like when dancer … Continue reading
Boston Ballet Trainee class streamed live
Bunheads and balletomanes will enjoy watching Boston Ballet’s Trainee technique class, which was streamed live on April 2. If you’re anything like me, you’d rather watch class or a rehearsal than a live show, so this is a treat. Artistic … Continue reading
Youth Uprising: ODC Dance Jam’s Home Season
Enthusiastic and dedicated young artists ensure a vibrant horizon for dance, and ODC Dance Jam is doing its part to develop teen talent at the highest level. See what the future holds at the contemporary troupe’s fourth home-season show, Make … Continue reading
AXIS: Physically Integrated Dance Summer Intensive
Oakland’s AXIS Dance Company consistently produces some of the most interesting, beautiful and singular dance going, and the company’s annual summer intensive is a chance to spread your wings through physically integrated dance. The official announcement: Physically Integrated Dance Summer … Continue reading
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Big Dreams, Small Screen: Tuning In to Dance Reality Shows
In Dance, January 2011 IT’S BROUGHT US SCHEMING Survivors, sadistic restaurateurs and women intent on marrying millionaires they’ve never met. And reality TV is now dance’s biggest venue, with shows like So You Think You Can Dance, Superstars of Dance, … Continue reading
A Sweet Treat: Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker
Oakland Ballet Performs Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker Paramount Theatre, Thursday, December 23, 2010 A new dance company is like a box of chocolates: You don’t know what to expect, so you have to just give each piece a try and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area, children, classical ballet, Graham Lustig, kids, Nutcracker, Oakland Ballet Company, reviews
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Awww, Nuts!
Contra Costa Ballet’s Story of the Nutcracker and Mark Foehringer Dance Proejct’s Nutcracker at Zeum Friday, December 3, and Sunday, December 5, 2010 Countless kids get hooked on The Nutcracker the first time they see the Snow Queen bourrée onstage … Continue reading
Smuin Ballet’s “The Christmas Ballet”
Friday, November 26, 2010 at the Lesher Center for the Performing Arts, Walnut Creek In just about every family, the senior generation passes holiday traditions on to the younger folk, who update here and there to keep the dusty old … Continue reading
Ready to Fly: ODC School and Theater Present Pilot 57
Normally, when multiple chorographers decide to coproduce a show, it’s because they like each other, or feel a creative synergy, or have harmonious work styles. Their artistic or logistical strengths and weaknesses being complementary, they shoulder different responsibilities to bring … Continue reading
