America's oldest ballet company celebrated its 75th birthday Wednesday night with grace, power, Americana and youth. Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson could have opened the gala with some of the company's top stars dancing in a 19th-century French or Russian classic, but instead he opted for something brave, meaningful and "right."
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If you’re a guy you won’t totally get it. But if you just "get" that you don’t totally get it, you got it. And that should be enough to deliver a devastating blow to the solar plexus."4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" dramatizes the isolation of women in instances of unwanted pregnancies with a hypnotizing, unflinching focus.A defining moment comes late in this harrowing tale from the waning days of Communist Romania in the late 1980s.
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Leave it to U2, whose fascination with technology has transformed their concerts into brilliant celebrations of multimedia light and sound, seamlessly entwined to create a spectacle both decadent and graceful.
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An Irish radio station is looking for a expatriates in San Francisco.
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Performing plays for grade schoolers — how hard could it possibly be? That’s what Ingrid Michaelson used to wonder, until she learned the hard way — in a cross-country production of "A Christmas Carol," hitting huge venues with only one sound man, one stage manager and six actors playing multiple roles.
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Roberta and Lisa Morales enjoy hearing that they’ve been described as "the female Los Lobos.""We’ll take it," they say during a recent phone interview, commenting on that observation as well as the fact they also have been compared to the Dixie Chicks.
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A video of Amy Winehouse shows the Grammy-nominated singer smoking ... something.
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As it celebrates its diamond anniversary, the San Francisco Ballet embraces its classical nature and a sense of adventure — qualities that have defined the renowned troupe since it became the nation’s first professional ballet company 75 years ago.
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Among the notable events in the troupe's history are: 1933: The San Francisco Opera Ballet is established. Its first performance, choreographed by Adolph Bolm, takes place.
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As it celebrates its diamond anniversary, the San Francisco Ballet embraces its classical nature and a sense of adventure _ qualities that have defined the renowned troupe since it became the nation's first professional ballet company 75 years ago. The months-long birthday festivities begin with a gala Wednesday and continue Jan. 29 with the first program of the 2008 repertory season featuring choreography by Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson as well as Lew Christensen and George Balanchine. A "New Works Festival" will feature 10 world premieres over three days.
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