Category: Dance

San Francisco Ballet Program 5

Program 5: “The Fifth Season”  “Harmony” “Magrittomania” Saturday, April 2, 2022 San Francisco Opera House A DELIGHTFUL EVENT! Program 5 of this season, celebrating the departure of director Helgi Tomasson, brought delightful levels of performance and choreography to the Opera…

Ailey Dance

Ailey Dance UC Cal Performances March 30-April 2, 2022 50 Years of Ailey: Now Battle Program A: Robert Battle 10th Anniversary Program Since 1968 Cal Performances has proudly presented the Ailey Dance Company. Now under the direction of Robert Battle,…

Dancing Moons Festival, Oakland Ballet

Dancing Moons Festival Oakland Ballet Oakland Asian Cultural Center March 24-26, 2002 A Graceful Event Graham Lustig, Artistic Director of the Oakland Ballet, has made the company an integral part of the community by reaching out and bringing its components…

Joffrey Ballet 3/4/22

Joffrey Ballet Friday, March 4, 2022 8 PM Cal Performances: Zellerbach Auditorium Celebration! to Excess Jeremy Geffen, Director of Cal Performances welcomed the “masked” audience with the joyful news that the Joffrey Ballet had returned to the campus after two…

San Francisco Ballet: Don Quixote

  Don Quixote: San Francisco Ballet Saturday, February 26, 2022 8 PM Opera House, San Francisco BRAVO! The San Francisco Ballet, celebrating its last year under the direction of Helgi Tomasson, has pushed its performance skills to achieve an ultimate…

Smuin Ballet

Smuin Dance Series 1 Lesher Center for the Arts Walnut Creek, CA February 19, 2022 2 pm All the beautiful girls and boys… The program for the Smuin Dance Series 1 was delightful. It consisted of three works, two by…

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Cal Performances February 5, 2022 Zellerbach Auditorium UC Berkeley Superb Entertainment What a wonderful gift the “Trocs” brought to Berkeley this weekend. The company was able to dispel the “pandemic” gloom, brighten our evening,…

San Francisco Ballet – Program 1

San Francisco Ballet: Program 1 Tuesday, February 1, 2022 TRIO (Tomasson: Tchaikovsky) MRS ROBINSON (World Premiere) (Marston: Davies) SYMPHONY IN C (Balanchine: Bizet) An Elegant Sufficiency. SF Ballet’s opening program on February 1, 2022 (the last season under the directorship…

San Francisco Ballet – Program 2

San Francisco Ballet: Program 2 January 3, 2022 War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco “Caprice” (Tomasson): “In the Night” (Robbins): “Blake Works” (Forsythe) Moving Right Along… The history of ballet, as we know it, goes back at least five centuries.…

Oakland Ballet’s NUTCRACKER

NUTCRACKER Oakland Ballet: Graham Lustig, Director Saturday, December 18, 2021 Paramount Theater, Oakland Oakland Ballet’s NUTCRACKER: Charming/Delightful Oakland’s Paramount Theater was allmost full with the enthusiastic audience that supports the Ballet’s performances. The event is dedicated and cast with all…