A new commission and a 30-year-old work on Third Street speak volumes about the neighborhood.
Making their annual week-long appearance as they have done since 1968 at UC Berkeley’s CAL Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s “Program C”…
Spring brings the budding of new crops, the bright eruption of magnolias and daffodils over the rain-speckled terrain, and the ritualistic return of Alvin…
In the second decade of South African apartheid, a young black photographer named Ernest Cole took clandestine images that showed the brutality, despair, and…
Bianca Cabrera is a really, really, really accomplished dancer. She trained in the Martha Graham technique, for one thing, and anyone who’s even tried…
If you could ask anyone to pick the best acts from the West Coast hip-hop–inspired performance scene, you'd ask Marc Bamuthi Joseph. “You're extraordinarily…
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is one of the best dance companies this country has ever produced. Does that sound like an exaggeration, a…