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Month: July 2015

DEKKERS’ UNIQUE AUDIENCE IMPACT

DEKKERS’ UNIQUE AUDIENCE IMPACT

His S.F. Dance Co. Dazzles The intermission crowd was the most animated I can recall at a dance event, enthusing, laughing, sipping, and reveling in the glow of a wildly exciting company on stage. So we’d better recognize the mercurial talent of choreographer Robert Dekkers, pronto. And before you enter, check all your biases at the cloakroom, please. Because Dekkers is a purposeful eccentric, provocative to the core in both attire and audience chitchat, coming across as some barely one…

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ANNA D. SMITH’S INTERACTIVE FORM OF THEATER

ANNA D. SMITH’S INTERACTIVE FORM OF THEATER

One-Woman Show with Multiple-Person Interviews BERKELEY — For an all too short run ending August 2, Anna D. Smith’s new one-woman show was launched at the Berkeley Rep. True to all of Smith’s previous works, “Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter” deals with important societal issues. It is told through a series of interviews where Smith plays the parts of interviewees, school officials, police officers, juvenile criminals and other people culled from the over 150…

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STELLAR MIDSUMMER CHAMBER CONCERTS

STELLAR MIDSUMMER CHAMBER CONCERTS

With Heavy Other-Coast Representation ATHERTON, CA—In one of the most attractive S.F. Peninsula communities, Music@Menlo has found its niche, selling out chamber concerts offered in intimate venues. The current 13th annual incarnation of M@M is devoted mostly to Schubert, the ultimate romantic master of lyricism, with Schubert’s greatest hits and songs spread out over four weekends. You might call it Lincoln Chamber West. The co-directors also run the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (NYC), drawing heavily from their colleagues…

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BLOCKBUSTER ‘TROYENS’ RUMBLES THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO

BLOCKBUSTER ‘TROYENS’ RUMBLES THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO

Two Operas in One, Studded with Choruses and Ballets, Plus a Prime Diva SAN FRANCISCO—A vast French-romantic creation, as only Berlioz could conceive it, has taken over the S.F. Opera stage and in effect thrown down the glove, challenging other troupes to match or do better, while challenging the endurance of both performers and audience. It adds up to five hours, five acts, and more savory choruses and ballet segments than in a month of run-days. After a low-key start,…

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