Underneath choreographer Robert Moses' urbane, composed exterior, you can almost feel the frothing intellectual energy of a mind alway...

An atmosphere of casual collegiality pervaded the crowded ODC Theater on Monday night as the Bay Area dance world gathered for the 26th An...

I could have used a road map to view Ashley Page's "Guide to Strange Places," which San Francisco Ballet premiered Friday ni...

It would be too easy to call Edwaard Liang's "Symphonic Dances" - which had its world premiere on Wednesday night when San F...

Bold lives in motion energized the stage at the opening gala for ODC/Dance's repertory season, which kicked off on Thursday night at t...

Things are getting a little talky during a rehearsal in the largest of ODC's broad, airy studios on Shotwell Street. Four of the compa...

If the kid in you has always dreamed of flying through the air in free fall, but the adult in you hesitates at the idea of jumping from a ...

"I prefer to say we are blending rather than creating a fusion," declares Carolina Lugo, the vivacious dancer and leader of Ball...

There may have been changes at the top for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, now under the direction of the affable Robert Battle, b...

In the airy main studio at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance, costumes and props are stacked neatly in a corner of the studio, and dancers s...

Whether it's high-flying, sweet romance or gritty sword fights, there is more than a little something for everyone in San Francisco Ba...

Whether onstage or off, Joanna Berman has always exuded a generous warmth. It was at the San Francisco Ballet where she drew in audiences ...

"The soccer ball is smaller, of course," says Laura Adams, director of San Francisco's SoccerTots program, which will host a...

The Batsheva Dance Company takes a while to get started with "Max" at Yerba Buena Center, but when the piece finally picks up st...

Forceful and enormously persuasive - an evening with the Batsheva Dance Company might portend dazzling, explosive zaniness or a visceral p...

You have to appreciate a ballet that plonks you down at the mouth of hell right at the outset. San Francisco Ballet choreographer-in-res...

Even though they might be too young to fully comprehend the significance of Black History Month, it's never too early to introduce lit...

One might think that "Beaux" is the kind of piece that should not be taken too seriously. And yet, underlying the frolicsome cas...

Faun or fawn, man or woman, human or other - ambiguity is at the heart of Sonsheree Giles' "Was It a Dream I Loved," which t...

I have a great time writing dance reviews, but one of my biggest frustrations is having only a few hundred words in which to compress so man...

When Vincent Ng and his teammates from Balboa High School went to chess competitions back in the late '90s, they noticed there were ve...

Onstage or off, Madison Keesler has riveting eyes. A bewitching intensity shines from their depths, which are set in a pretty, delicate fa...

The words that comes up the most often when talking about John Cranko's sweeping ballet "Onegin" is "life changing."...

The emphasis was on the contemporary as the intrepid Company C Contemporary Ballet embarked on its 10th anniversary season Friday night at t...

In a cost-cutting move described by its director as "risk avoidance," the Oakland Ballet Company is postponing its spring performa...