Features
written and produced:
On San
Francisco Ballet's Night: "At the world premiere of
'Night,' audience members leapt to their feet after an exhilarating and
electrifying performance by the eleven member cast led by Tina Le Blanc
and Benjamin Pierce..."
Ballet
class with Willie Burmann: "One of the most sought-after
teachers in New York is also one of the toughest..."
Ballet
class with Frederic Lazzarelli: "Finding a class in Paris
was not a problem. Actually getting to class was the real difficulty..."
Les
Ballets Trockaderos de Monte Carlo: "Known for the sly humor
and knowledgeable insider jokes which mark all of their performances,
the Trocks are both accomplished dancers as well as masters of comedy..."
P.S.
122 in New York: "When you want to see innovative and cutting-edge
dance, check out P.S. 122 in New York's East Village..."
On Romeo
and Juliet: "One of the best-loved ballets in the repertoire,
Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet was only first performed in this
century..."
Butoh,
The Dance of Darkness: "Because of its sometimes sexual and
violent themes, it is one of the most controversial and shocking of all
dance forms..."
A
Ballet Body...Who Decides?: "For good or ill, the exacting
standards by which ballet measures dancers includes a very thin body..."
Where
have all the dance spaces gone?: "The pattern is becoming
familiar: in New York City, beginning in the early eighties a dozen dance
studios disappeared, pushed out by the sky-rocketing rents that accompanied
gentrification..."
Maturing
artists fight for their place: "What does it mean to be "over
the hill" as a dancer?"
Editor's
Picks for the year 2000: "What we loved from the San Francisco
Bay Area..."