A Danced Rituel
When Frank Gehry was tapped to be the architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, he envisioned the space to be “a living room for the city.”
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No reviewer wants to arrive at a performance, check in and wait to be seated, only to have the theater experience a power outage, in this case 2220 Arts + Archives, the site of the erstwhile Bootleg Theater. But if one is served oysters while waiting —for an hour, as it turned out, before a generator arrived—well, this writer is there! Seriously, Volta Collective, founded during the pandemic by Megan Paradowski and Mamie Green, fuses physicality, theatricality and multidisciplinary approaches to performance, with their recent “Salt” a testament not only to the group’s culinary prowess, but also to their musical, dance, thespian and literary chops.
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When Frank Gehry was tapped to be the architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, he envisioned the space to be “a living room for the city.”
Continue ReadingSan Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House is a grand, gracious theater, so it was a big deal to see the San Francisco Ballet School hold its end-of-year performances in that hall for the first time since at least 1985.
Continue ReadingAt its heart, “Sylvia” is a ballet about the resistance to love—a theme that continues to resonate deeply, as the human spirit often recoils from love, driven by fear, pride, a need for control, or the weight of duties and moral constraints.
Continue ReadingSince the 1970s, the Paris Opera Ballet has cultivated a distinctive tradition of nurturing its own dancers as emerging choreographers.
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