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The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street [1] (or 1268 Sutter, [2] depending on the entrance). The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969.
Ed Mock (c.1938–April 25, 1986) was a San Francisco-based dancer, teacher, and choreographer, whose style and teaching influenced future generations of dancers and artists. Most active through the 70s and 80s, Mock founded and ran the West Coast Dance Company (1974–1979) and Ed Mock Dancers (1980–1985), as well as the Ed Mock Dance Studio.
Menlo Park Academy of Dance San Francisco Ballet School 2018 2024 Misa Kuranaga Japan: Jinushi Kaoru Ballet School School of American Ballet: 2001 2019 Boston Ballet: Wona Park South Korea: Sunhwa Arts School San Francisco Ballet School 2017 2020 Aaron Robison United Kingdom: Institut del Teatre. The Royal Ballet School. 2016, 2018 N/A, Joined ...
(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library) Terrific Street was a short-lived entertainment district on San Francisco 's Barbary Coast during the early 20th century. [ 1 ] It consisted of dance halls, jazz clubs, and various kinds of drinking establishments. [ 2 ]
With its origins in turn-of-the-century traveling companies, the San Francisco ballet routinely rented practice studios. In the late 1970s, the company was housed in a renovated parking garage on 18th Avenue, San Francisco, in a downstairs studio with ceilings so low that the dancers could not practice lifts for fear of hitting the beams. [ 6 ]
After three years, Graham closed the Fillmore West on July 4, 1971, with five nights of shows featuring such San Francisco bands as Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service (who headlined the final performance at the venue) [19] [20] [21] and a poetry reading from Allen Ginsberg.
Born in Missoula, Montana, Smuin was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet, for which he served as co-artistic director from 1973 through 1985. In 1994 he founded Smuin Ballet. [1] He also choreographed for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Washington Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet. [2]
Z Space’s performances span a variety of disciplines, including theater, dance, visual art, music and performance art. Through its Z Space New Works program, the organization develops unique works from initial concept to on-stage production; it also provides technical residencies in which artists can make use of the entire facility, including the stage, lights and sound system to test and ...