Dance Criticism

Choreographer Justin Peck’s minimalistic “In Creases” started off this weekend’s Joffrey Ballet performance at Zellerbach Hall with a piano work by Philip Glass, “Four Movements For Two Pianos.”

A Mars-red sun stares at San Franciscans from a sky full of soot. Just miles away from the city another culture is going up in flames. The apocalyptic grey sky is palpable; a snow of ash is falling from the sky on street life in the Tenderloin.

Mac’s limitless creativity; theatrical talent, timing, spontaneity, transparency, vocal range, and irresistible command over the audience was jaw-dropping.

“A Study of Effort”, originally a six-minute solo has since become an hour-long collaborative piece and work in progress with virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt.

The much applauded, and much deserving, Joe Goode picked four excerpts from his favorite pieces to capsulize 30 creative years—not an easy feat. The pieces ranged from 1991-2011 and feature the solid dancing of longtime company members: Liz Burritt, Felipe Barrueto-Cabello, Marit Brook-Kothlow, Melecio Estrella, Molly Katzman, Andrew Ward, Patricia West, and more recently, James …

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At 30 years of age, dancer/choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith is the subject of a one hour and thirty-five minute documentary that begins as she quits the highly praised Israeli dance company, Batsheva.

Me in my body doing what I am doing helps them feel more alive, more connected to our human experience, like what we do matters.

Powerful yet challenging to behold. For all of its exquisite physicality, breathtaking feats of movement and haunting beauty it is troublesomely lacking some inexplicable ingredient—perhaps by design, maybe by omission.

Whiz-bang choreographer and dancer James Graham just curated his 6th season of “Dance Lovers… duets by couples, crushes, and comrades.”