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The dancers are ready, the costumes are done, the sets are loaded. But have you given any thought to the people on the other side of the curtain? “The audience’s experience doesn’t start when the lights go down,” says Lincoln Jones, founder and director of Los Angeles’ American Contemporary Ballet (ACB). By the time the […]
Kambara (aloft) in Brenda Way’s Waving Not Drowning (A Guide to Elegance) Sometimes you get the confidence to pursue a new path from unexpected places. When Yayoi Kambara of San Francisco–based company ODC/Dance decided she wanted to stop performing full-time, co-artistic director KT Nelson gave her the confidence and support to become a choreographer. “When I […]
Jeremy Smith and Yayoi Kambara When Jeremy Smith, now with San Francisco’s ODC/Dance, was a student at Florida State University, modern teacher Lynda Davis put him through his paces. “Her classes were rigorous. One of her methods was to have us do the same phrase for long stretches of time, maybe 15–20 minutes for just one […]