By Mahsa Hojjati Iranian diaspora children are frequently asked: “Where is better: Iran or Khārej (Outside)?” A question as difficult to answer as: “Who do you love more: Māmān or Bābā?” The benefits of living Outside cannot bridge the distance from family, friends, and the best food on the planet. Of course restrictions are suffocating
by Allan Ulrich With the Berkeley debut of New York-based Reggie Wilson / Fist and Heel Performance Group on September 23 at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances at the University of California launched Joining Generations, an ambitious, four-part survey of African American choreography. The California premiere of Wilson’s 2013 Moses(es) inaugurated the project in arresting, if
by Allan Ulrich In 1987, the third year of his tenure, San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson commissioned from the young William Forsythe a dance called New Sleep, which was like nothing ever seen previously on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House. This was movement theatre before there was a name for