February 2010

Amy Seiwert's 'Soon These Two Worlds' The Smuin Ballet opened its winter concert at the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts this past weekend with Choreographer-in-Residence Amy Seiwert’s Soon These Two Worlds and two Michael Smuin repertory ballets, Medea...

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A devotion to the spiritual This past weekend saw the Ronald K. Brown dance company, Evidence, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Brown’s 25-year-old company is based in Brooklyn, New York, but the dance they perform is based in Brown’s understanding and adaption of African dance forms. Several of his more famous pieces were commissioned by and remain a part of the repertory of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. The company performed two of these Ailey pieces,...

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Categories: dance