From Alonzo King LINES Ballet to free SF Music Day to a musical satire about Disney princesses, there is a lot to see and hear in the Bay Area.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet dancers Shuaib Elhassan and Madeline DeVries are featured in the company’s new program, offered Oct. 12-15 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.From Alonzo King LINES Ballet to a musical satire about Disney princesses, there are a lot of great live shows to take in this week in the Bay Area. Here is a partial roundup.
The lineup also includes King’s delicate “Dust and Light,” set to concerti by Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli and religious chants by Francis Poulenc; “Writing Ground,” , drawn from a poem by Irish writer Colum McCann and set to sacred early music from Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions; “Resin,” set to music by Jordi Savall and various Sephardic field recordings”; “Suite Etta,” which pays homage to Etta James”; and “Child of Sky and Earth,” set to a score by jazz...
The acclaimed show was conceived by Virginia history teacher Dennis T. Giacino, who sought to portray female historical figures in a more realistic light. “Disenchanted” got its off-Broadway debut in 2014. San Jose Playhouse previously presented it in 2019.The return of “Lohengrin” and season-opening concerts by the Oakland and Berkeley Symphony orchestras highlight this week’s classical music calendar.
The fest is a passion project Howard conceived of in 2018 after working for organizations centered on social change and climate justice and finding an absence of joy, given the heaviness surrounding the topics. She decided to create a comedy festival “space” in Oakland where there hadn’t been one.
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