A Lively Nutcracker
The
Nutcracker
Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
December 12, 2003
By
Alison Garcia
Copyright
©2003 by Alison Garcia
If
you are living in the Bay Area and committing to only one Nutcracker
this year, you could do far worse than Dennis Nahat's production for Ballet
San Jose Silicon Valley, which opened last Friday and runs through December
28. This version, first presented in Cleveland in 1979, is not as elaborate
as some—there's no gigantic Christmas tree looming over the set—but
plenty to see in the way of lively dancing, good storytelling, smooth
choreography, and some impressively combative mice courtesy of the Ballet
San Jose Silicon Valley School.
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Mixed Bag
Pilot
42
ODC Theater
December 18, 2003
by
Rita Felciano
Copyright ©2003 by Rita Felciano
The Pilot series at ODC Theater is one of ongoing initiatives which attempt to provide solutions to the eternal question of affordable rehearsal space. By now ODC has developed a hierarchy of gthese programs designed to meet needs of choreographers at various tages in their development. Pilot is for those just learning how to structure a public presentation, Migrations features choreographers who have some experience and finally there is the House Special for fully professional dance makers with a specific project in mind.
Pilot has
been going on for fifteen years and, not surprisingly, the quality has
been a real toss up. Some programs have let you see a whole evening of
budding talents that just needed time to develop, others have made you
wonder why these people were invited to join the first place. Usually,
these evenings are mix of self-conscious trying-to-be different at all
costs, sparks of imagination and a fair amount of pedestrian plodding
along.
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What's On This Week
Dec.
7-28
San Francisco Ballet
The Nutcracker
War Memorial Opera House
Dec.
22-28
Smuin Ballet
The Christmas Ballet
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
700 Howard St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 978-2787
Dec.
23-28
Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley
Dennis Nahat's
The Nutcracker
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
255 Almaden Boulevard
Box Office: (408) 288-2800
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