Fog Beast – CHANGE – San Francisco
If you’re ever within earshot when a member of Fog Beast yells out, “Hey, kids, let’s put on a show!” – fasten your seatbelt. Because a performance by this underground San Francisco dance-theater duo is guaranteed to be a wild night.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Concerto for Two Violins, Writing Ground – San Francisco
Quite by accident I ended up seeing LINES Ballet’s fall season twice. A good thing I did, too.
Post:Ballet – Four Plays: Colouring, Sixes and Seven, When in Doubt, field the present shifts – San Francisco
Dekkers has some interesting ideas for collaborations with composers, visual artists and set designers, which sound good in the program notes but, at best, they remain embryonic on stage.
Hubbard Street Dance – Little mortal jump, Azimuth, Too Beaucoup – San Francisco
The dancers are really top-notch, razor-edge precise and boundlessly energetic, but limited to an eclectic vocabulary reflecting a Nederlands Dans Theater aesthetic…
LINES Ballet – Constellation – San Francisco
Someone who has embodied King’s choreographic essence thoroughly in a few short years is Michael Montgomery. Everything he does feels completely natural, utterly effortless, like a child running freely, exploring his surroundings and his body without self-consciousness.
