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Category Archives: Events
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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Tagged contemporary, east bay, integrated, modern
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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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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
AXIS and inkBoat Redefine Dance
ODD integrates dancers in wheelchairs and on foot.What’s in a name? AXIS, the name of Oakland’s renowned physically integrated contemporary dance company, plays on the turning axes of wheels and on accessibility; before it formed in 1987, world-class opportunities for … Continue reading
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Oakland Ballet Nutcracker Children’s Auditions
Saturday, September 25, 2010 Thank heaven for little girls who love ballet. They are simply the cutest people in the world. A gaggle of them (and a couple of boys, too) donned their favorite ballet skirts and sparkly hair bands … Continue reading
Sailing Away: Joanna Haigood choreographs San Francisco history
In Dance, October 2010 Flooded with Gold Rush lucre and teeming with the adventurers who hunted for it, San Francisco in the 1850s was a rootin’-tootin’, quick-shootin’, prostitutin’ Wild West boomtown. Halloween in the Castro has nothing on the Barbary … Continue reading
Posted in Dancers Group, Events, In Dance magazine, Interesting Stuff, Interviews
Tagged Bay Area, choreographers, contemporary, modern
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Oakland Ballet Kick-off Reception
The phoenix that is the Oakland Ballet is set to rise again, after several failures to relaunch over the past few years. This time feels different…it feels like there’s really hope for the Oakland Ballet legacy to continue. New artistic … Continue reading
Ballet Students: Audition next weekend for Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker
Oakland Ballet has a new artistic director in Graham Lustig, and a new company of dancers who will be announced on September 23. Formerly a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet and Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Lustig has created contemporary … Continue reading
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Center Stage
East Bay Express Fall Arts Preview, September 1, 2010 A stellar East Bay dance season is waiting in the wings. Along with venues that draw dance talent from around the globe, the East Bay boasts world-class choreographers and dancers (who … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area, contemporary, east bay, East Bay Express, modern
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