Robert Moses' Kin in San Francisco

By Carla Escoda, 26 January 2014

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Reviewed at Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco on 23 January 2014

The Slow Rise of a Rigid Man (Robert Moses)

Profligate Iniquities (Robert Moses)

NEVABAWARLDAPECE (Robert Moses)

Robert Moses' Kin

Lamplighters glitter in Bernstein’s Candide

Jaime Robles, 31st January

The Bernstein operetta is a sassy summation of Voltaire’s classic in this alluring production by The Lamplighters.

****1

Restless Creature revamped for its US tour

Carla Escoda, 15th January

The luminous Wendy Whelan and choreographers Alejandro Cerrudo, Joshua Beamish, Kyle Abraham, and Brian Brooks kick off the American tour of a revamped Restless Creature, presented here by San Francisco Performances.

***11

Kurt Weill meets Francis Poulenc in Opera Parallèle's innovative production

Jaime Robles, 25th April

Opera Parallèle combines Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Francis Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias in a riotous opera-within-an-opera production.

*****

Michael Gordon's Timber resonates in San Francisco

Grant Damron, 14th November

“Timber”, the word, conjures images of trees falling in the wilderness as lumberjacks yell out, of fragrant wood crackling in a fireplace, and of stacks of lumber waiting to be crafted into furniture by carpenters’ rough hands. Michael Gordon’s 2010 work Timber is just as evocative.

****1

Alonzo King LINES Ballet tangles with sacred music in Writing Ground

Carla Escoda, 26th October

This fall, Alonzo King puts his sleek, sinuous stamp on Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, with witty nods to predecessors George Balanchine and Paul Taylor who, in 1941 and 1975 respectively, created two towering classics of dance to the same piece of music.

****1

A Rite in San Francisco: Anne Bogart and Bill T. Jones' autopsy on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Carla Escoda, 13th October

I’ve been humming bits of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring ever since my first encounter with it in my impressionable teens. It stuck in my head, along with the Led Zeppelin anthems. So when the lights went up on Bill T.

****1

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.

Brilliant dancing and a derailment from Robert Moses' Kin