Julie Potter

The Winter Dance Feast

Mark your calendar! The Winter Dance Feast is here with solid picks of Bay Area dance taking the stage through March:The A.W.A.R.D. Show!Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance involves 12 dance artists...

Performance three ways, one weekend

Those in the know reported to City Hall, Samovar Tea Lounge and a sidewalk on Shotwell Street for distinct performances this weekend. Zaccho Dance Theatre's Sailing Away excerpts, Rotozaza's Etiquette and ODC's Architecture of...

Dance, community and popcorn at the RAWdance Concept series: 7

As fall dance season previews hit the papers, RAWdance's Concept series: 7 offers a live sneak peek of works by six dance artists at an informal and intimate salon of contemporary dance September 4 and 5 at the...

"Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray" at the Lincoln Center Festival

The jarring rumble of a train launches Bill T. Jones’ Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray on Saturday at the Lincoln Center Festival. Time unfolds, fast forwards and rewinds as Jones uses Abraham Lincoln’s...

Bill T. Jones' "Fela!": Welcome to the Shrine

Welcome to the Shrine, a club where Afrobeat intoxicates with its horns and drums. Fela!, at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, traces the extraordinary life of Nigerian artist, political activist and revolutionary musician Fela Kuti (1938-97) through clear...

Bending Ritual: Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion Dancetheater

How do you know when you're an adult? How do you celebrate life along the way? During Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah, a ritual-bending performance at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, composer Dan Plonsey muses on these...

Eiko & Koma at the American Dance Festival

Eiko & Koma's masterful artistic partnership of almost 40 yields a textured and stunning meditation of life's fragility and struggle. Rich with natural elements and a touch of magic, the environment the pair inhabits onstage, is...

The Brain Dances Along With Live Performance

Couples skim the floor, as they wheel through space and rapidly fold into athletic partnered sequences in a performance by the Montreal-based RUBBERBANDance Group, on Thursday at the American Dance Festival. Sliding in socks, energy waves fluidly from one...

Dendy Dancetheater at the American Dance Festival

Watching two men in fringe shorts exaggerate the Mashed Potato, a child in the audience hysterically giggles during Dendy Dancetheater’s mostly silly, sometimes sweet, double bill presented on Monday, June 21 at the American Dance Festival. In Mark...

Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak's 'Oyster' at the American Dance Festival

Inside Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak’s Oyster is a billowing carousel of colors, a prism of dreams, and a palette including grotesque darkness and human tenderness. Like a Toulouse-Lautrec circus scene, the dancers possess pale painted faces...

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