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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

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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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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

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Post:Ballet “Concert One”

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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