Posts Tagged ‘City Ballet of San Diego’
Spring Dance Calendar 2014: ‘Flowers & Weeds to Pick’
Dance events are wonderfully strange and varied flowers in a “pick your own” garden. Dozens of troupes are presenting dance-theater spiced up with live music, spoken word, puppetry, and art installations. Productions may be fresh and colorful or prickly and dark. You may find a few strange weeds among the flowers – and weeds can be fascinating.
Read MoreCity Ballet of SD’s ‘Balanchine Masterworks’ is Thrilling, Timeless Treat
While the subject of the ballet is ancient, the dance is contemporary. As Apollo, Geoffrey Gonzalez climbed up and down a wooden framework that evoked a vintage lifeguard tower. His sheer white costuming suggested he was a god who…
Read More‘Tis The Season of Hot Men in Tights, On Toes
Men with muscled legs poured into tights and booty shorts will keep you hopping long after the New Year.
The most versatile men pull double duty – they dance and act for multiple troupes and embrace a range of styles and costumes like second skin.
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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