GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO ARTS FREE MONTHLY Dancing Into Spring Alonzo King LINES Ballet partners with Emmy award-winning Vietnamese musician and composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ April 12-21. See Dance Highlights on Page 9 for details. 3 Artists of the Iranian Diaspora Explore Intersection of Past, Present 5 Bay Area Dance Week: A Movement Extravaganza! 6 Golden Thread Presents U.S. Premiere of Hannah Khalil’s New Play Alex Farnum APRIL 2019 VOL. 27 NO. 12 Dance Highlights CURATED BY HEATHER DESAULNIERS An dr ew Post:Ballet E cc le s Chris Hardy Alex Farnum Post:Ballet is in full celebration mode, marking a decade of boundary-pushing choreography and performance. First up in its epic 10th season is an encore of 2017’s Alvin Ailey American “Lavender Coun- Dance Theater try,” a collaboration with musician Patrick Under the artistic Haggerty. Mining direction of Robert Haggerty’s album of Battle, Alvin Ailey Smuin Contemporary Ballet the same name, com- American Dance monly cited as the first Theater is back on the Smuin Contemporary Ballet wraps up its landmark openly queer Country campus of UC Berke- 25th anniversary season with a Bay Area tour of recording, the potent ley to continue its Dance Series 02; first stop, downtown San Fran- work reveals themes decades-long artistic cisco. With “The Best of Smuin,” a retrospective of discovery, welcome, exchange as part of of founder Michael Smuin’s canon of work, along- respect and love. Cal Performances. side a new world premiere by former choreogra- This year’s residency pher-in-residence Amy Seiwert, the program is a Apr. 25 → 27 Alonzo King LINES Ballet includes several work- perfect intersection of past, present and future. Z Space shops, a community Whenever Alonzo King LINES Ballet announces a dance class and four Apr. 26 → May 5 new project, you know that artistic collaboration will programs featuring the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater be front and center. This spring, King joins forces Bay Area premieres of with Vietnamese musician and composer Vân- Rennie Harris’ “Lazarus,” Ánh Vanessa Võ in a to-be-titled world premiere Jessica Lang’s “EN” that marries not only music and movement, but and Ronald K. Brown’s Kofi Kumi lineage and innovation. Rounding out the spring “The Call.” program is a remounting of 2016’s “Art Songs.” Apr. 9 → 14 Apr. 12 → 21 Zellerbach Hall, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater UC Berkeley Alyssandra Katherine Dance Project Compulsion and hiding; hopelessness and deceit; searching for avenues to escape the madness—Alyssandra Katherine Dance Project unpacks these pene- trating themes in the world premiere of “Unraveled.” Choreographed by Artistic Director Alyssandra Katherine Wu, “Unraveled” casts an open and vulnerable lens on addiction using a mosaic of movement, text, film and storytelling. Apr. 11 → 13 ODC Theater COMPLETE ARTS LISTINGS AT 9 SF ARTS ORG.