The concert will feature an eclectic movement of different European composers; selections from Randall Thompson’s “The Place of the Blest;” “Pentatonic Alleluia,” and Bonse Alba from Zambia. The newly formed Honor’s Men’s Ensemble will also debut at the concert. The Bay Area premiere of “Reading of the Names,” by Jessica Locke — in recognition of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 — will be presented by the Advanced Performing Chorus. It also marks the first performance of the piece by a children’s chorus.
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These ladies — danced by the comedic team of Anastasia Petushkova, Margarita Frolova and Yekaterina Ivannikova — were basically bossy dolts, figures a canny Cinderella should have been able to outwit. And though the people attending the ball were preening and hungry, they came across (like Cinderella’s adoptive family) as absurd, rather than menacing. The greatest mystery of the night may have been the depiction of the fairies who clear the way for Cinderella’s transformation, meant to represent the four seasons. This quartet of bizarrely arrayed male dancers — in red, green, blue and yellow face paint, some with giant gladiator-style plumes on their heads — resembled a Halloween posse. That Ratmansky glued their movements together with the earnest purpose of a Martha Graham seemed to signal further cultural confusion.
The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, now in its 39th season, is an intoxicating kaleidoscope — vibrantly-hued costumes, soulful live music and exuberant dancing that spotlights cultures from around the world, It feeds all your senses, even ones you didn’t know you had, Discover this mind-expanding experience over the next two weekends, as the festival is presented for the first time in its history at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, “Our festival is unique in the entire world,” says co-artistic director Carlos Carvajal, “It includes the best ballet theme cookies, ballet cookie favors, toe shoe cookies, tutu's ballet theme sugar cookies, ballet recital cookies, bal performers from all different ethnicities, While other festivals bring them in from other countries, ours are all local.”..
Dance Connection. “The Nutcracker.” Dec. 6-8. Spangenberg Theater, Gunn High School 780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. $14– $25 advance; $20-$35 at the door. t www.danceconnectionpaloalto.com. Smuin Ballet. “Xxmas: The Christmas Ballet, 2013 Edition. Dec. 11-15. New choreography from Smuin’s choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert and Post:Ballet Artistic Director Robert Dekkers, and others. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. $49-$65. 650-903-6000 or www.smuinballet.org.
