Measure the Music : Antonio Lauro’s Venezuelan Waltz

By Jake Padilla           The 26th Measure of “Carora” by Antonio Lauro; performed by Paquito D’Rivera: The way it feels when I am on the edge of an upward swing — this measures the moment of commitment. It is the point at which I’ve swung at just the […]

April 2, 2012  |  Read Article

An Interview with Christian Burns

“Our physical effort to capture and give form to our thoughts and our fleeting perceptions is the base level of the creative act.” “A dancer is in the profession of living one’s life in front of people and among people. To me that is the ultimate function of dance: to […]

March 26, 2012  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Helgi Goes RAW!

The Garage is moving! San Francisco’s favorite underground venue, directed by the notorious Joe Landini, is leaving its home at 975 Howard for 715 Bryant. And in honor of the Garage’s new home, San Francisco Ballet should inaugurate the space with Helgi Tomasson completing a Resident Artist Workshop. Yep, that’s […]

March 20, 2012  |  Read Article

The Doorway to Another World

By Emmaly Wiederholt As a performer, it’s incredibly jarring coming out of performance to greet my audience. It feels like a breach of contract in that I just committed myself to a role and now I have to transfer myself out of that role. It’s a shock and I never […]

March 12, 2012  |  Read Article

Finding the Frontier

I love the story of the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring. Whether the riot that followed the premiere can be blamed on the dissonant arrhythmic music, the pounding tense choreography, or the political and cultural times, it seems as though there was a clear frontier where […]

February 12, 2012  |  Read Article