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In his footsteps
A new site-specific work pays tribute to local legend Ed MockHonoring influential teacher and performer Ed MockMOCK PHOTO BY KATHY SLOANEarts@sfbg.comDANCE If you are even tangentially connected to San...
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Where to next?
LEVYdance celebrates its first decade with an outdoor performance of past worksAlley cat: LEVYdance performer Paul Vickers takes flightPHOTO BY DAVID DESILVAarts@sfbg.comDANCE Ben Levy sure knows how...
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Diversity in motion
SF Ethnic Dance Festival triumphs, despite budget cuts and the loss of its main venueAntoine Hunter of Urban Jazz Dance Companyarts@sfbg.comDANCE Last weekend, World Arts West's San Francisco Ethnic...
View ArticleThe ascendants
Post:Ballet continues its ambitious risearts@sfbg.comDANCE Though only in its fourth season, Robert Dekkers' Post:Ballet has already gained an enthusiastic, impressively large following that has...
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Drawing inspiration
Amy Seiwert's "Sketch" series encourages experimentationVal Caniparoli's TriptychPHOTO BY DAVID DESILVAarts@sfbg.comDANCE Though only in its third incarnation, Amy Seiwert's wide-open "Sketch" has...
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Season's greetings
Three standout works, one 'Summer Sampler'Triangulating EuclidPHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.comDANCE ODC/Dance's 2013 "Summer Sampler" was a smash. The theater was completely packed, and it looked like the...
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Essential grace
FALL ARTS: DANCE Anticipating the season's standout dance performancesEl Beh and Christopher W. White in EmSpace Dance's "Monkey Gone to Heaven"PHOTO BY LYDIA DANILLERarts@sfbg.comFALL ARTS Fall may no...
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Primate urges
EmSpace Dance's clever, ambitious 'Monkey Gone to Heaven'Going bananas: Michael Mohammed, El Beh, Christopher W. White in Monkey Gone to HeavenPHOTO BY LYDIA DANILLERarts@sfbg.comDANCE Because the Bay...
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Legacy of rhythm
Dimensions Dance Theater's triumphant 40th anniversary celebrationarts@sfbg.comDANCE Has there ever been a celebration at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts quite as exuberant, layered, and embracing of a...
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Spinning a precise web
Israeli choreographer Idan Sharabi's SF-inspired world premiere Choreographer (and Quentin Tarantino fan) Idan SharabiPHOTO BY SANDY LEEarts@sfbg.comDANCE Israeli-born choreographer Idan Sharabi pays...
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Lit up
Local choreographers find inspiration in fiction"Writing Ground"LEFT PHOTO BY MARGO MORITZarts@sfbg.comDANCE This past weekend, two dance companies showed premieres inspired by fiction writers. Alonzo...
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Living legend
Immersive, participatory 'Layla Means Night'Carin Nolandarts@sfbg.comDANCE When ODC opened its new theater in 2010, Brenda Way's Architecture of Light celebrated the building's bones and its potential...
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Move freely
Kunst-Stoff Dance Company offers a retrospective — and a farewellYannis Adoniou in Solo for YannisPHOTO BY NAVID BARATYarts@sfbg.comWas Kunst-Stoff's 15th anniversary concert this past weekend its last...
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Pop shop
The good, the meh, and the human-pretzel marvels of the SF International Hip Hop DanceFestBones the Machine and DJ Aaron perform in Bonebreakkings.PHOTO BY DAVID ELLINGSONarts@sfbg.comDANCE For an...
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From the ground up
Stanford's Festival Jérôme Bel celebrates the 'non-dance' pioneerPHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATION R.B. (2005, MONTPELLIER)arts@sfbg.comDANCE Conceptual French choreographer Jérôme Bel thrives on...
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To have and to hold
RAWdance digs deep with intricate, excellently performed 'Mine'arts@sfbg.comDANCE RAWdance packed enough movement material into its new Mine to tempt lesser choreographers to dilute it into a much...
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Keep moving
A month-by-month look back at the year in danceRad dads: Scott Wells & Dancers perform 'Father On'PHOTO BY DAVID PAPASarts@sfbg.comDANCE This is not 12 Days of Christmas but 12 Months of Dancing....
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Joy to the stage: Smuin Ballet's 'The Christmas Ballet' is a tradition worth...
Smuin Ballet dancers Nicole Haskins and Weston Krukow in Amy Seiwert's "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm."Photo by David AllenSmuin Ballet's The Christmas Ballet, which the late choreographer Michael...
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The good foot
The FRESH Festival and Liss Fain Dance welcome 2014 with exciting new worksWoolf pack: Megan Kurashige in "After the Light"PHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.com DANCE The fourth FRESH Festival sounds like...
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Vanishing point
Hemorrhage takes on San Francisco's identity crisisStanding strong: the women of Dance BrigadePHOTO BY MILY TRABINGarts@sfbg.comDANCE Sitting at her large desk overlooking the intersection of Mission...
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