David Taylor Dance Theatre Riverwalk Center Breckenridge, Colorado August 13-14, 1999 Reviewed by Janine Gastineau When the snows melt, Colorado shuts down its ski runs and earns its bread and butter through an increasingly popular venture here?the performing arts. In Breckenridge the glorious backdrop of the Rocky Mountains was the setting for a first-ever collaboration […]
Carissa Coleman, center, in a luminous portrayal of Queen Lili’uokalani, with Peter Rockford Espiritu and Holly Chung in E Lili’u E. Photo: Peter Yee, courtesy of Tau Dance Theater Tau Dance Theater Hawai’i Theatre Honolulu, Hawaii June 2526, 1999 Rreviewed by Paula Durbin Since founding Tau Dance Theater three years ago, director Peter Rockford Espiritu […]
Photographer Marty Sohl’s photograph of a traditional dancer from Kala Vandana Dance Center (India) captures the beauty of the 1999 SF Ethnic Dance Festival. San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, California June 1-27, 1999 Reviewed by Rita Felciano In San Francisco the annual return of thetwenty-one-year-old Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF) […]
Andrew Thompson as the Artist and Patricia Renzetti as his Muse in Martin Fredmann’s new ballet Dreamspace. Photo: Terry Shapiro, Courtesy of Colorado Ballet Colorado Ballet Auditorium Theater Denver, Colorado May 8-14, 1999 Reviewed by Janine Gastineau While a ballet company’s technicalability, ensemble dancing, versatility, and expressiveness are often revealed by their grasp of the […]
Fiona Wallis as the tragic Miss Havisham in Northern Ballet Theatre’s Great Expectations. Photo by Hanson courtesy of Northern Ballet Theatre Reviewed by Margaret Willis Northern Ballet Theatre’s new director, Stefano Giannetti, set himself an awesome task for his first production for the company, that of adapting and condensing Charles Dickens’s much-loved and very long […]
Frank Afrunti and Brett Mills dance Toni Pinble’s masterly Slipstream in Eugene Ballet’s spring season. Photo by Steve Welsh, courtesy Eugene Ballet. Eugene Ballet Company Hult Center for the Performing Arts April 17-18, 1999 Reviewed by Martha Ullman West Eugene,OR-Conventional wisdom is that while there’s no lack of good dancers around the country, the quality […]
New Shoes, Old Souls Dance Company Cowell Theater San Francisco, California January 13-23, 1999 Reviewed by Ann Murphy Six years ago, a group of longtime Bay Area dancers got together and put on a show, and when they looked around and took count, they realized that theirs were unusual demographics. They were all over forty, […]
New York City Ballet New York State Theater New York City, New York January 5-February 28, 1999 Reviewed by Kate Mattingly As a new currency drew Europe together, New York City Ballet divided repertory according to the country of each composer’s birth. Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Russia were represented in their Nation’s […]
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