Liss Fain Dance at ODC Theater

  Liss Fain Dance describes its production Your Story Was This as “an immersive performance installation.” That doesn’t give us a sense of how central dance is to the work, but it does reveal the importance of the audience and...

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Preview of Company C in “Arcane: A Tale of All Hallow’s Eve”

Halloween, a sacred night celebrated around the world that leads into the Day of the Dead, is the night where the veil between life and death is thin.  It is a night of communicating with ancestors while bringing to light aspects of our character with roots in imagination and esoteric knowledge. Arcane: A Tale of All Hallow’s Eve is a new full-length work by Company C Contemporary Ballet, based in Pleasant Hill, California.  Recently I had the...

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A celebration of Sonic Harvest’s 15th year

  Part of the joy of living in the Bay Area, aside from the expansively gorgeous weather even under the specter of drought and climate change, is the vast range of opportunities in the arts. This is especially true in music and in...

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