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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="468"] Yuan Yuan Tan and Lloyd Riggins in The Little Mermaid, photo by Eric Tomasson[/caption] The blue world of unrequited love “The Little Mermaid” has been adapted many times in many...

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Brenda Way hit the bull’s eye when she said ODC’s dancers, newly returned from a month-long tour of Southeast Asia, are “in absolutely top form.” They are, and they proved it with ease and grace this past Friday, the opening night of...

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Global Nomads Anyone who has traveled will recognize the scene: a barren space with people loitering here and there along the edge of an open central area; bored, reading newspapers, sleeping uncomfortably in chairs,...

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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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The mystery of blue When the curtain opens on the San Francisco Ballet’s program of “Balanchine’s Masterpieces,” the audience beholds a field of ballerinas in long dresses of semitransparent tulle, not...

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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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