An Ambitious Evening
ODC/San
Francisco
Dancing Downtown
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
February 12, 2004
by
Rita Felciano
Copyright © 2004
by Rita Felciano
published
16 February 2004
Dancing
and music trumped choreography on the opening night of ODC/San Francisco’s
33rd season. Yet with four world premieres, two commissioned scores and
a masterpiece of Western music, Bach’s Passacaglia in C Minor,
used in an intriguingly fresh manner, the first of two programs certainly
didn’t lack ambition. (Two other world premieres are scheduled for
the second program which opens later this week.)
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Couplings
Stephen
Petronio Dance Company
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, California
February 7, 2004
Merce
Cunningham Dance Company
[Presented by Cal Performances]
Zellerbach Hall,
Berkeley, California
February 8, 2004
by
Ann Murphy
Copyright © 2004
by Ann Murphy
published 16 February 2004
Circumstance
made bookends out of Stephen Petronio and Merce Cunningham last weekend
with Petronio in San Francisco and Cunningham in Berkeley. And though
it may seem about as apt to compare them as to compare the poetry of Wallace
Stevens and Patty Smith (or, more pertinently, Lou Reed), the two concerts
have been bouncing off one another in my mind all week.
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What's On This Week
February
17, 2004
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
.
Balanchine on Screen Series: Dancing for Mr. B - Six Balanchine Ballerinas
In this 1989 film by acclaimed documentarian Anne Belle, six of Balanchine’s
most renowned ballerinas -- Mary Ellen Moylan, Maria Tallchief, Melissa
Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley, and Darci Kistler -- recount the
joys and challenges of dancing for Mr. B.
Feb 17, 6
p.m, 410 Van Ness Avenue, Veterans Building, 4th Floor, San Francisco
February
19, 2004
Anima Mundi Dance Company
As part of its ongoing Third Thursday performance series, the Asian Art
Museum presents a special dance-theater performance by Anima Mundi Dance
Company entitled Mountains and Rivers Without End. Based on Pulitzer-prize
winner Gary Snyder’s poem of the same name the performance –
conceived, choreographed and adapted by Kathryn Roszak – mirrors
the rhythms of Snyder’s poem and embraces a variety of styles from
contemporary dance to hip-hop to Noh theater.
Feb. 19, 7pm, Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., SF, 415-581-3500, www.asianart.org.
February
19, 2004
Liss Fain Dance
Shifting Land is based on a journey through high plateau and
is performed to the music of Mongolian throat singers. In Shifting
Land, the dances of Liss Fain, Martt Lawrence and Amy Seiwert are
performed in sections that transition seamlessly, one into another without
a pause, like a story told from different points of view. By integrating
the work of several artists into one production, the pieces gain an intensification
and clarity. Feb. 19-21, 8pm, ODC Theater, 3153 Seventeenth St., SF, 415-863-9834,
www.odctheater.org.
February
21, 2004
Moscow Ballet
Cinderella. Feb. 21, 8pm, Marin Veteran's Memorial Auditorium,
Ave. of the Flags (Civic Center Dr.), San Rafael, 415-499-6800.
February
21, 2004
Zaccho Dance Theatre
Joanna Haigood and Zaccho Dance transform the Forum into a time-warped
picture of 3rd and Mission over the past century in a breathtaking aerial
dance installation created in collaboration with sculptor and set designer
Wayne Campbell. Four buildings converged in the location of the Forum
just previous to its construction: the Peerless Movie Theater, the Hotel
West, a machine shop and an apartment building. These buildings, expressed
in their historical locations by suspended fragments, provide the ghostly
setting for a series of solo dancers who will animate the spaces with
the stories of the people who lived here once upon a time. Historical
and live video and a sound collage provide the backdrop for the installation,
which will be performed in and viewable for an otherworldly six-hour period
each day. Feb. 21-22, 24-29, continuous performances from 11am-5pm, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts Forum, 701 Mission St. (Third), SF, 415-978-2787,
www.yerbabuenaarts.org.
February
20-21, 2004
ODC/SAN FRANICSCO
"Dancing Downtown"
KT Nelson's RingRoundRozi, Brenda Way's Fiendish Variations and Noir
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 700 Howard St., SF, 415-978-2787,
www.odcdance.org.
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