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SFCV: A Magnificent Monteverdi
Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 2010
Major anniversaries of a famous composer’s birth or death often occasion great fanfare, yet such honors are seldom accorded the anniversary of the publication of an individual piece. The year 2010 presents a notable exception, marking the 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of Claudio Monteverdi’s masterful Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610). This year’s first local commemoration, and likely one of the finest to be heard all year, comes courtesy of American Bach Soloists, which presents this masterwork in four performances Jan. 29–Feb. 1 in Belvedere, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Davis. READ MORE
EAST BAY EXPRESS
A Bright River in Transit
Music outpaces narrative in Tim Barsky's Bright River.
By Rachel Swan
January 13, 2010
Born out of rage and frustration, Tim Barsky's The Bright River: A Mass Transit Tour of the Afterlife takes a very old fable and hews it to current politics...READ MORE
'Bright River': Barsky revisits 2004 musical
BY Mary Ellen Hunt
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Love. Death. War. Life. Transit. That's how Tim Barsky describes his underground beat-boxing musical hit, "The Bright River." It's been more than five years since "The Bright River" made its debut on the Ashby Stage in the East Bay. But since the beat-boxing flutist presented his initial run in Berkeley, and then later at the Traveling Jewish Theatre in December 2004, this mystical journey through the land of the dead has gathered a grassroots momentum and now returns for a monthlong run at the Brava Theater Center with a fresh staging and new sets and costume designs....Read More
Dance review: Savage Jazz Dance's jazzy 'Agon'
BY Mary Ellen Hunt, Special to The Chronicle
Saturday, January 23, 2010
It's always tricky when you mess with a ballet that many consider iconic, and it takes a steady hand to tackle the complexities of Igor Stravinsky, as the Savage Jazz Dance Company did with its premiere of "Agon," in the Laney College Theater on Thursday night...Read More
Hip-hop dancers heat up the night
BY Mary Ellen Hunt, Special to The Chronicle
Monday, November 23, 2009
It might have been a cold damp November night, but things were hot inside the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre as the 11th Annual S.F. Hip Hop DanceFest got under way Friday with the first of two weekend programs.
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As the audience walked in, the mood was already enthusiastic as hip-hoppers from around the world messed around onstage and competed genially with each other. Of course, messing around in this case meant showing off acrobatic twisting turns in the air and sweeping balances on one hand...Read More
An American Export Comes Home, Still Popping
November 28, 2009
Krumping, clowning, strobing, turfing, breaking, locking. Few art forms boast as many subgenres as hip-hop dance. Though the differences between its various styles may be inscrutable to most people, mavens like Popin Pete of the seminal West Coast hip-hop dance crew the Electric Boogaloos have been known to split hairs over its terminology. “There are people who wave, and there are people who tut,” he told Dance Spirit Magazine last year. “They’re not popping.” ...Read More
Don't miss: 'California Revels'
December 10, 2009
By Mary Eisenhart
For almost a quarter of a century, the California Revels have celebrated the winter solstice with multigenerational song, dance, storytelling and merriment drawn from times and places near and far. This year's outing finds the assembled revelers in 19th century Bavaria with plenty of gemütlichkeit to go around, so gather the family round the yule log.
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