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    Collaborator
    A retrospective of a profoundly influential career
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: April 23, 2003

    When I arrived in San Francisco light-years ago, Market Street was a sleepy boulevard dazed by bright light, occasional bursts of traffic, and packs of winos slumped in front of shuttered...

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    Flamenco Fever
    The smoldering dance reflects our hunger to feel powerful emotions
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: February 12, 2003

    Last fall I went to see flamenco and Spanish dance at the tiny Eureka Theatre on Jackson, where a hint of stale popcorn still haunts the air from its days as a movie house. As the concert began,...

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    The Tired Nut
    The last days of San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker as we know it
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: December 18, 2002

    It costs $1.5 million for 2 1/2 weeks of work for about 170 people, and it depends on fat bags, hats that look like wet dogs, weird harnesses, and 100 pounds of scrap paper in pieces slightly...

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    Outside the Box
    Alonzo King's Lines Ballet celebrates 20 years of defying description
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: October 9, 2002

    Try to sneak choreographer Alonzo King into a categorical box, even in the role of iconoclast, and he turns impatient, almost testy. The tall, soft-spoken artistic director of Lines Ballet is the...

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    The Odd Couple
    Jenny McAllister and Emma Huckabay form an unexpectedly fruitful partnership
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: August 21, 2002

    They are the local dance world's odd couple -- two choreographers, about 10 years apart in age, staging concerts together for the last nine years, who are neither roommates nor romantic partners....

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    Breath of Understanding
    Pondering the questions raised by the international reach of the Ethnic Dance Festival
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: June 19, 2002

    Is dance a universal language that can be understood by anyone? Or is dance many languages with rules one has to first learn in order to understand and appreciate the various dialects? For the past...

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    Life's a Beach
    Company Chaddick reinvests modern dance with animal sensuousness, darkness, and joy
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: April 3, 2002

    Out of the blue, choreographer Cheryl Chaddick's rabbit died last week. Buster had gone into the vet's for a routine something or other -- nothing he hadn't undergone before -- so Chaddick was...

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    Into Thin Air
    Exploring gravity, before and after the fall
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: February 6, 2002

    In Jess Curtis' upcoming Fallen , you won't find an ankle-deep sea of office paper and fake body parts onstage. You also won't see any imploding buildings projected onto the backdrop, nor does the...

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    Wise Bird
    Men may want to take cover when Krissy Keefer, feminist survivor, dances
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: January 16, 2002

    In the grim arts climate of the last three decades, the politically committed and the lifelong rebels have best withstood the onslaught of tough times. For artists on the margins, fervent political...

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    Amazon Queen
    Kathleen Hermesdorf investigates female power with a shifting assembly of dancers
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: December 12, 2001

    Ever since Contraband stormed the Bay Area dance scene in the mid-'80s, the grass-roots community has been throwing over traditional arts-organization hierarchies for collectives, partnerships,...

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    All's Fair in Love and War
    Old music and new dance hook up in a seamless, surprisingly timely show
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: November 14, 2001

    German choreographer Joachim Schlömer settles into the corner of the Olympia Hotel cafe near the Tenderloin with the sinuous acuity of a cat. His is the gracious, coolly accommodating manner...

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    Mind Games
    Fellow Travelers Performance Group wants to crawl around inside your head
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: October 17, 2001

    The setting makes me laugh: Curving walls of unseemly brown, plastered with blobs that resemble spitballs, breasts, or bundles of male organs, sprout short ribbons, like those given to 10-year-olds...

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    In the Dance House
    Can choreographers of different generations be neighbors?
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: September 19, 2001

    When people talk about dance, they often conjure up an image of a large open field with lots of different things growing, all exposed to the same elements. But the dance world is more like a house...

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    AXIS Powers
    The troupe integrates members with and without disabilities. But is it dance?
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: June 6, 2001

    A month ago, Rhodessa Jones, the wisely sassy performance artist, stood in front of a microphone in the Green Room of the Herbst Theater. She was accepting the dance community's Isadora Duncan...

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    Dance to the Music
    Two local choreographers bring the songs onto the stage
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: May 9, 2001

    May is the month of exuberantly blooming flowers, a seeming profusion of women overripe with babies, and boisterous assemblies of birds and bees. It's also the lush, green bridge to summer, so it...

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    Flying High
    Jo Kreiter speaks softly but swings from a big stick
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: April 4, 2001

    You have to laugh when soft-spoken Jo Kreiter calls herself the Shape Nazi. She doesn't mean that she leads Weight Watchers groups sporting black boots and a bullwhip, nor that she recklessly...

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    Next of KIN
    Robert Moses' troupe fuses community and privacy, society and solitude
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: March 7, 2001

    He began working in the family store in Philadelphia at the age of 6, when most kids are still struggling to tie their shoes. He was educated first as a Catholic -- his mom's religion -- then as a...

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    Beauty and the Beast
    Angelin Preljocaj's ballet company dips its toe in art, literature, and history -- with stunning results
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: February 7, 2001

    Ballet and intellectuality often seem to fit together about as well as George W. Bush and a good book. On the one hand, you've got ballet's anachronistic courtly pretension, with women in hooped...

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    Youth and Beauty
    Innovation is alive and well in Helgi Tomasson's S.F. Ballet
    By Ann Murphy
    Published: January 24, 2001

    Twyla Tharp started it 28 years ago when she blasted the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe" through New York's City Center. Onstage, while Brian Wilson's voice whined sweetly, Tharp's pop spectacle...

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    Living With Misha
    White Oak Dance Project may be Baryshnikov's brainchild, but dancer Raquel Aedo is not intimidated
    By Rachel Howard
    Published: October 25, 2000

    Raquel Aedo fears few things in the dance world. Her sinewy frame doesn't tremble, for instance, at her boss' every criticism. "I still look at him when I'm watching him perform and see he's...

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