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Gabriel Zertuche leads Ballet San Antonio into a new era

Gabriel Zertuche leads Ballet San Antonio into a new era

“It’s important, if we’re going to survive as an art form, that we start reaching out to a younger audience.”   A decade ago, Gabriel Zertuche thought his dancing days were behind him. In 2005, he decided to move to San Antonio to live with friends. But within a year he began dancing for Ballet

Robert Tobin and the fight for the Medical Center

 “Here was a very dignified gay man, who, by today’s standards, never discussed his sexuality in any kind of open environment.”   In Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, the composer’s Romanticism was both idealistic (infinite longing) and fatalistic (inevitable disappointment). The moral of the opera–“attempting to hold onto what we cannot keep causes hurt and is ultimately

Business spotlight: Feast

From reading cookbooks in the back of HH-60 helicopters to a yearlong apprenticeship where his fingers never left the cutting board, Chef Stefan Bowers was destined for culinary greatness. In 2011, while working as executive chef at 20Nine, Bowers met entrepreneur Andrew Goodman, and the pair opened the doors to Feast, the King William spot

The Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Majestic

7:30pm Tuesday February 10 $29-$110 The Majestic Theatre, 224 E Houston, (210) 226-5700 Purchase tickets here Paul Taylor, known as one of the seminal choreographers of the 20th and 21st century, brings his dance company to San Antonio. Since 1954, Taylor has helped shaped American modern dance by creating 140 dances, which offer “cogent observations on

Jump-Start Performance Party XXX

Saturday, January 10, 2014, 7 – 11pm Beacon Hill Neighbors at 700 Fredericksburg Rd.  $5 With 30 years of theater-making under their belt, there’s one thing that can certainly be said for Jump-Start Theatre Company: these local trailblazers know how to collaborate, developing innovative new works that serve as “a lasting voice of diverse cultures

Business spotlight: The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Everybody’s talking about the new Tobin. With 10 resident companies, including AtticRep, Opera San Antonio, the San Antonio Symphony, and Ballet San Antonio, educational-outreach opportunities, and space to support national acts, the Tobin offers San Antonio unparalleled access to the performing arts. The world-class venue promises to “once again become the pride of the River

On the Chartreuse Couch: Margaret King Stanley

Gene: So, Margaret, Welcome to the  Chartreuse Couch. Where the arts come to converse. Everyone loves the arts here in San Antonio and you have been a main instigator of this spiritual awareness all these many years with dance, the symphony, and now opera. And I know you want to speak on that topic and the new Tobin

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