Category Archives: Reviews

Surprise Attack: FACT/SF’s Home Season 3.0

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Claudia Bauer

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 →

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A Sweet Treat: Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Claudia Bauer

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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Awww, Nuts!

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Claudia Bauer

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 →

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Smuin Ballet’s “The Christmas Ballet”

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Claudia Bauer

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 →

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AileyCamp’s “Ambassador Bridges”

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Claudia Bauer

Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, July 29, 2010     Sometimes dance is the least important part of a dance performance. For the kids who performed in Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp’s season finale at Zellerbach Hall, dance, to paraphrase Robert Louis Stephenson, was about … Continue reading →

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Post:Ballet “Concert One”

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Claudia Bauer

Cowell Theatre, San Francisco, Saturday, July 17, 2010 Few choreographers can create plotless contemporary dance that engages the audience with movement and music alone; all too often, dancing for its own sake devolves into moody self-indulgence. More unusual is a … Continue reading →

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