New Strategies for San Diego Opera

In a recent radio interview, San Diego Opera’s newly appointed Artistic Advisor William Mason asked for suggestions from the local arts community to expand the vision and outreach of the opera company as it charts its future beyond the 2015 season. Here is how the resident critics of San Diego Story are responding to Mason’s invitation . . .

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Dance and the Right to Privacy at YouTurn

YouTurn 2014 offered an intriguing progression from a highly performative dance, to one combining a personal focus with performance, to a piece so private it was like peeking through curtains into the dancer’s living room. It also proved that, while bubble wrap never gets old, body painting does.

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Circle’s earnest “2.0” has the community, and military life, in its sights

Maybe Circle Circle dot dot needs to get more specific in its references to the city it seeks to portray and reflect. Even so, its “San Diego, I Love You, 2.0” features two very good performances in this story about military life and a couple’s sacrifice within it. The scrappy company understands that theater is a terribly public act, and its site-specific approach isn’t lost on an art form that’s been embracing community-based performance forever.

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movement initiative dares to move … and to thrill

The slogan of [the] movement initiative1375641721-large is “Dare to move,” and daring is clearly bred in the bones of founders/directors Caryn Glass and Ami Ipapo – both are veterans of Streb Extreme Action, the Brooklyn company known for its bruising physicality and aerial work that makes your heart catch in your throat.

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