by Garth Grimball | Apr 29, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
On March 22, Oakland Ballet dancers ferried to Angel Island to perform excerpts of their upcoming premiere, Angel Island Project, at the island’s historic Immigration Station. They danced at the water’s edge facing the detention barracks, with the bay at their backs,...
by Kyra Laubacher | Mar 13, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Oakland Ballet made waves last year with its inaugural Dancing Moons Festival, a new ballet festival dedicated entirely to works by Asian American Pacific Islander artists. Now an annual event, the festival returns this year to Bay Area audiences with a world premiere...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
A roundup of recent honors in the ballet world Muriel Maffre, a former principal with San Francisco Ballet who now performs as a guest artist with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The National Ballet of Canada Caught in Love’s Web By Virginia Johnson In a more perfect world, instead of The Nutcracker, a thoughtful and dramatic ballet such as John Neumeier’s The Seagull would be the annual performance that audiences looked forward to...
