by Charles Kruger Montreal’s Cirquantique is making its very first international tour to come to San Francisco for the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Surely they have chosen the right place, bringing a style of performance that San Francisco loves! After all, our fair city is home to our very own much beloved Edwardian Ball, […]
by Charles Kruger Faced with the assignment of preparing a feature article on Korean dance troupe, “Ambiguous Dance,” I began with the typical strategy of seeking an interview with the troupe’s co-founder, artistic director and choreographer, Kim Bo-Ram. But when I consulted with Andrew Wood, the energetic director of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, […]
by Charles Kruger Bharatanatyam is the oldest performance art in India. In Indian tradition, the performing arts were not divided into theatre, music, and dance but experienced as a single art form. Nor was their separation between secular and religious performance. Thus Bharatanatyam is not only a dance tradition, but a musical, theatrical, and spiritual […]
by Charles Kruger After many years training and performing with companies such as The Pickle Family Circus and Cirque du Soleil, husband and wife Aloysia Gavre and Rex Camphuis founded the Cirque School in Hollywood, which is home to Troupe Vertigo. The company describes their work as a triad of circus, dance and theatre. The Los […]
by Charles Kruger Bandelion is CSU East Bay professor Eric Kuper’s core ensemble within the Dandelion Dancetheater (DDT), committed to exploring profoundly experimental and spiritual aspects of dance and movement. Its self description reads: “We are a tribe. We are a found family. We are committed to pushing and being pushed by each other, past […]
by Charles Kruger The “Samudra Manthan” (“Churning of the Ocean”) is a story from Indian mythology in which demigods and demons compete for supremacy. It is beautiful and complex, full of battles and diplomacy, and miraculous events such as the creation of Amrita, the nectar of immortality. Befitting the grandness of such a myth, the […]
by Charles Kruger In Aeschylus’s bloody series of Ancient Greek tragedies, “The Oresteia,” Orestes returns home after seven years, by command of Apollo, to avenge his kingly father’s alleged murder by killing his mother and her lover, goaded on by his sister Elektra. The action drives him to madness, and nothing ends happily. It […]
