Dance

Photos by Barry Goyette   Most people have likely seen the 1939 movie classic Wizard of Oz, which has evolved into a childhood viewing rite of passage for generations. Some…

Image: Barry Goyette   Civic Ballet of SLO brings a completely new adaptation of “America's greatest and best-loved home-grown fairy tale," L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, to…

The Basin Street Regulars hosts Kathryn Loomis & Co. plus the Early Riser Jazz Combo playing “Hot Swingin’ Jazz” on March 30 at the Oceano Elks Lodge. Singer-songwriter and Cal…

The collaboration between a pianist/composer and a dancer/choreographer creates Counterpoint, a Cal Poly Arts presentation April 8 in Harold Miossi Hall at the Performing Arts Center. Conrad Tao is the…

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company presents a richly varied program of inventive original commissions, plus classical and neoclassical favorites, in one performance March 14 at the Clark Center in Arroyo…

'Tis the season for the Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop, and the Mouse King, which means that just about anywhere right now, someone, somewhere, somehow, is staging The Nutcracker. And…

The holidays are approaching quickly and there are so many news items I want to share with you, but so little time as we hurtle towards 2025. So here are…

A San Luis Obispo dance company is taking a financial leap of faith in staging its next pair of performances. Normally, and particularly in this post-COVID era, local performing arts…

This production was scheduled June 22-23, 2024. A German fairy tale full of deep love, hidden secrets, mystical characters, and deadly betrayal is the inspiration for Ballet Theatre SLO’s original…

This production was scheduled June 1-2, 2024. When, as a young child, we each discovered some aspect of nature—a leaf, a rock, a flower, or the squishy joy of mud—the…