Dance companies desperately seek performance space

San Diego may be the country’s eighth largest city, but when it comes to dance venues, it’s a small town.  Cash-strapped companies are desperate for space they can afford, amidst whispers of unfair rental fees and managers skimming ticket sales. “It’s very tough,” says John Malashock of Malashock Dance.  Like so many companies, he remembers…

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Summer Choral Festival Offers Concerts and Intensive Study

San Diego’s summer arts calendar typically finds the choral music scene in vacation mode, but Patrick Walders, San Diego State University’s Director of Choral Studies, and several colleagues have put together the San Diego Summer Choral Festival at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Bankers Hill and St. Andrew’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Pacific Beach from July 25 to 28.

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A “Gem” of a show at the Bowers Museum

Image of "Chariot with Male Figure" with gold Integration attributed to Benvenuto Cellini.

A review of “Gems of the Medici” now on view at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. The exhibition features carved gems, medallions, and gold amassed by the Medici—Renaissance Italy’s most famous and powerful family. The exhibition features important ancient cameos from the Hellenistic and Roman eras along with spectacular gems made during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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A Theatre Holiday, Part 2 – London

The best thing about London theatre is that there is so much of it. There is commercial theatre, clustered in the West End around Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, there are several institutional theatre companies, most notably the National Theatre, which operates from expansive facilities on the south bank of the Thames, right at the Waterloo Bridge. And, there are theatre companies doing cutting edge work, often in venues that are off the beaten track…

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Summer Intensives: Where dancers can shadow a Limón Doppelgänger and other inspiring artists

“In Limón, the line is balletic, but from a different principal,” he said. “You oppose constant gravity; stretch an arm in one direction, and a leg in the other. It’s classical Humphrey-Weidman opposition. The struggle makes us human. I am Mexican and male, but I live in America and share my life with a woman. Those oppositions create people, and powerful dance.”

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A Theatre Holiday: Part I – New York and Washington, DC

There’s been general consensus that the New York theatre season has been a middling one. Little of a groundbreaking nature opened on Broadway, though some interesting work appeared off-Broadway. Nevertheless, even a mediocre season on Broadway produces enough of interest to keep one busy over what amounted to a long weekend (shows Friday evening, three on Saturday, and two the following Wednesday)…

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