The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

San Francisco Ballet closed out its season a fortnight ago with a week-long revival of John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid, based of course ...

I made my first trip this season to the San Francisco Ballet last Friday, for the opening night of Program 7. First up was Petrouchka, to St...

Here it is May Day already. Do you know why America celebrates Labor Day in September? The capitalists had to give the workers something, bu...

Lots of exciting new or newish music coming up in March. . . starting on Monday, March 1, with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players ...

San Francisco Performances has an evening of modern music with Midori on February 6, and their annual subscriber concert on February 9, fe...

Some may consider this month the start of a new year, but theater-goers know that the year really begins in September and ends in June. So h...

3 Haiku for Balanchine's Jewels 1. Emeralds Verdant the river Flowing shaded, soft and sad; (Why did you leave me?) 2. Rubies Jump up li...

There seems to be a critical mass of interesting stuff I’m most likely going to miss in the next couple of weeks, thanks to previous commitm...

As a dear friend of mine once noted, poverty sucks, and so last spring I had decided I couldn’t buy any tickets to the ballet. But much as I...

As we get older, most dance becomes a form of nostalgia. Not only are dancers, by the nature of what they do and why they do it, generally y...