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If viewers at Malashock/Raw3 sat any closer, we would be wiping sweat off our faces and asking John Malashock for an ice pack. The stripped-down series is back for its third installment, this time in the company’s studio at Dance Place, with three premieres about taking risks, fighting bullies, and an uncooperative universe, and all of them feature exciting partnering. Malashock’s “Uneasy Surrender,” is the stunner. The wild and wonderful composition for seven dancers has your eyes bouncing all over the place as dancers fight an unwinnable fight with the world. It opens with dancers in a line, whirling as…
Russell Maliphant’s original Afterlight – an enthralling 15-minute solo inspired by images of Nijinsky, and first presented to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes – was a huge hit at Sadler’s Wells, London, in 2010. In a new version, on view Thursday evening at Mandeville Auditorium, he retains that breathtaking solo, adds two lovely women, more hints of historic ballets, and lots of shadowy lighting. Sadly, the new material becomes flat and cannot compare to the hypnotic spell of the opening solo. Set to Erik Satie’s haunting “Gnossiennes 1-4,”eyes strain to see Thomasin Gülgeç in a dim pool…
Jules Verne’s story, Around the World in 80 Days, has been dismissed as an adventure tale aimed at boys, but it has proven to hold appeal for audiences of all ages. That appeal continues as Lamb’s Players Theatre mounts the West Coast premiere of Laura Eason’s adaptation of the novel.
After the San Diego Symphony’s opening weekend piano concerto marathon with Lang Lang—he played Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto last Friday and Sunday and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto on Satruday—it seemed like too much of a good thing to invite Garrick Ohlsson to solo in Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto in G Major the following weekend. But, as Mae West once pronounced with near Papal authority: too much of a good thing can be wonderful! On Friday (October 12) at Copley Symphony Hall, both Ohlsson and the rarely played Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto In G Major were indeed wonderful. Ohlsson, a bear of a…
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