Garth Grimball
Hello Readers,
It’s been a very long time since I’ve written a letter-from-the-editor style post. I’m taking advantage of the 9 days left in this year to say how grateful I am to everyone who contributed…
Understanding dance through the stories we tell
Evan Gilman
After seeing Opera Parallele’s production of The Emissary, I took it upon myself to read the source material, Yoko Tawada’s book of the same name. The contrast between the opera I attended and the source material I was…
Sheldon Smith
I’m no expert in obscure 17th century Italian baroque opera. I would guess that few people alive today are. When such an opera is reconstructed for the first time in three centuries, as apparently was the case for the…
Andréa Spearman
Identify. Implement. Monitor.
These are the essential duties of a registered nurse. And that is exactly what Alleluia Panis has brought to the ODC stage.
KULARTS presented Alleluia Panis’s Nursing These…
Garth Grimball
Bellwether Dance Project, led by artistic director Amy Foley, shared its second season at ODC Theater on September 14–16. For years Foley’s dancing has been integral to many of the Bay Area’s modern dance companies:…