Posts Tagged ‘San Diego’
Tijuana-Tipperary Dance Explores the Self and the World
Lux Boreal’s collaboration with a dance company from Tipperary produces off-kilter wobbles and a human om, to music that could be the soundtrack for one of the moodier Western films.
Read MoreLux Boreal Offers Dark, Provocative Dance at SD Fringe
Internationally known for its complex, provocative work and technically stunning dancers, Lux Boreal is a very hot ticket at the San Diego Fringe Festival. Very hot and very bleak.
Read MoreGalas’ Incandescent Prose Makes for Two Fringe Must-Sees
It’s brilliant that the premiere San Diego Fringe Festival is presenting what amounts to a Philip-Dimitri Galas retrospective. An incandescently talented artist, Galas invented his own genre, “avante-vaudeville,” to describe his combination of physical theater and explosive, poetic language, and the term seems Fringe-perfect.
Read MoreEssay: 2012 Not a Great Theatre Year
Let’s face it. 2012 was by no means a great theatre year. Even so, there was good work that went on in San Diego and elsewhere, despite a disappointing overall result.
Read MoreCatalina Maynard a Powerhouse in ion’s Julia
ion Theatre’s Claudio Raygoza has created Julia, a world premiere version of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. His creation contains a cup of its original author, two cups of Tennessee Williams, and a pinch of Mexican telenovelas. And, in his title character he’s given company stalwart Catalina Maynard a bitch-goddess role worthy of her considerable talents.
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