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 better times. “It was a tough blow, when the old Sushi space folded,” he says of Sushi Contemporary Performance and Visual Arts, which shut down in 2011 after 31 years of presenting cutting-edge shows.  “It was flawed, but served the community well. We had a…

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.