In my first outing to Sacramento Ballet, this past weekend, I am pleasantly surprised by the consistently high caliber of dancing and the...

Melissa Lewis Wong, American born (1992), and her mother Joy ChenYu Lewis, Chinese born (1949), honor each other’s unique spirits with...

In commercial terms, a dance performance is a product produced by an individual, or a company, and sold to audience members via a...

“I want to live in a community where people are curious about me, instead of creating boundaries,” this phrase, drawn from Joanna...

What is a story but the weaving together of words and memories? We gather the stories within ourselves, passing them along, extending...

Last month, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Broken Wings, inspired by the life of Frieda Kahlo, made its San Francisco Ballet debut to critical...

On Sunday April 21 at Dance Mission Theater, I, and perhaps 100 others, bore witness to the world premiere/closing night of Prumsodun...

When is too much of a good thing too much?  Friday night’s Cal Performances presentation of the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) at UC...

At the talkback, following Nancy Karp + Dancers 2024 Performance Season matinee, moderator Charles Amirkhanian refers to Karp’s work as...

Touring the country like itinerant preachers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) spreads the gospel of dance as the artistic...

“Art-making calls for our attention. It poses questions, and at its best, proposes fresh ways of seeing and understanding,” so declares...

Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble’s (NCDE) Gallery, a series of nineteen dances, is arranged around the theme of an art exhibition.  Each...

The West Coast premiere of Unstill Life, a dance co-created by five celebrated artists, Rinde Eckert, Risa Jaroslow, Margaret Jenkins,...

Anticipating the pleasure of an engaging afternoon, the audience is gathering at Zellerbach Hall to share The Joffrey Ballet’s and Yuri...

Kayla Farrish and her company Decent Structures Arts’s Put Away the Fire, dear is an epic piece of dance theater which confronts the...

“When you’re tired of the sameness and tameness, this is the place,” so reads the enigmatic event marketing.  The venue is unique, the...

ODC’s Pilot Program offers emerging and mid-career choreographers 3-months of residency and mentorship in choreography and...

Smuin Contemporary Ballet (Smuin) is a marvel, not just surviving but seemingly thriving through good times and bad.  Now in its...

A woman possessed; an audience entranced; this is what remains at the end of a tempestuous hour with Fanny Ara’s Lilith. Is Ara actually...

It’s Sunday, February 18, 2024, Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall (2,000 seats) is packed to the gills for the final of three performances....