Cy Ashley Webb
Cy spent the ‘80’s as a bench scientist, the tech boom doing intellectual property law, and the first decade of the millennium, aspiring to be the world’s oldest grad student at Stanford where she is interested in political martyrdom. Presently, she enjoys writing for Stark Insider and the SF Examiner, hanging out at Palo Alto Children's Theatre, and participating in various political activities. Democracy is not a spectator sport! Cy is a SFBATCC member.
A Novel Idea: Copious Dance Theatre
All attention was focused upon Jeffrey Van Sciver, a mesmerizing black dancer with impossibly long arms and legs. Transitioning from sharply articulated moves to movements as liquid as a long string of pearls, Sciver nearly stole the show.
Volti – ‘Singing without a Net’
One side offered up the lyrics of the poem, while the other repeated a figure over and over, with tones ranging from breathy to keening, seagull cry to siren call, as if the true poetry lay in their lack of words.
Bartok and Holst: Chatting with Nathan Chan of SFSYO
Chen explains, “what sets us apart is the time and care we put into addressing exactly that. Others focus entirely on giving a perfectly technical performance. Here, we have the ability to expand up.”
ARRRRRG… A Most Notorious Woman
One could not help but be impressed with how effectively Augello uses the space around her, dipping behind a downstage sail to converse with another character, emerging from another with a slight costume change, and strutting upstage as a peeved Queen Elizabeth.
Review: ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ energizes audience
If an overweight, overwrought, middle-aged, whiny nebbish can be an oracle, Lopez has it down as he expounds at length on the action on the other side of the stage.
Oundjian, Biss and the SF Symphony: A Magical Combination
The rapid arpeggiation remained at once fluid and distinct, which is nearly impossible at the lightning speed his fingers flew.
St. Benedict’s Rule touches Silicon Valley and beyond
With the church plunged into darkness save for the lit candles on the altar, seemingly disembodied voices waft down from the choir loft for a half hour. People linger in the darkness afterwards, enjoying the hush silence and letting the music reverberate internally.
Elegant and Warm: Weigang Li and Melvin Chen
Schoenberg’s essay ‘‘Brahms, the Progressive’’ appearing in Style and Idea (1950) declared that ‘‘composing is a slowed-down improvisation.’’ This is a good thought to keep in mind when listening to Li and Chen perform Sonata No. 3 in D Minor.
Essential Action Productions Debut Performance: ‘Collected Stories’
Carolyn Power can do more with a quivering upper lip and and slightly furrowed brow than anyone I've seen in long time
Review: ‘Chicago’ opens at Montgomery Theatre
The dancers move more like an octopus, each an appendage of the whole beast, so you can focus on individual tentacles slithering or watch the whole beast move across the stage. I’d love to see this number again and again.
