Reggie Wilson ans Fist and Heel Performance Group

Por Jaime Robles, 25 septiembre 2017

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Crítica hecha desde UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley el 23 septiembre 2017

Reggie Wilson, Coreografía

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 14th December

Citizen is about many things and, while race is certainly central, there is also the question of what it means to belong, not to belong and to not even want to belong.

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Eifman Ballet in a strangely psychological Pygmalion Effect

Jaime Robles, 31st May

Eifman has said he wants move dance back into theater and to use movement to explore the psychological. Both of these the company accomplishes.

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Xenos: The generous sorrow of Akram Khan

Jaime Robles, 2nd March

He turns and turns, elliptically and with the speed of a skater on ice. Sheer muscle defies gravity and the friction of feet on terra firma.

*****

No lonely hearts in MMDG’s Pepperland

Jaime Robles, 28th September

What makes this piece entirely Mark Morris is, even more than the dancing, the music.

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Wang Ramirez take Borderline to California

Jaime Robles, 24th February

A cube hangs suspended at an angle and Ramirez, harnessed to a line above the stage, floats above it, fulfilling the promise of dance and the human desire to escape gravity – to fly in angelic weightlessness.

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Joffrey on tour

Jaime Robles, 17th November

Eclectic and contemporary, The Joffrey Ballet reimagines human and kinetic beauty.

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.

Finding freedom with the Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group