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  • Reflect
    Lucinda Childs: Dance
    Lucinda Childs: Dance
    Apr 28, 2011 – Apr 30, 2011
    Lam Research Theater at YBCA
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    San Francisco Performances in association with YBCA presents: Dance is a historic collaboration between three of the 20th centuries’ art super stars — choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass and visual artist Sol LeWitt. Symbolic of the minimalist movement that emerged from the 1960s New York art scene, Dance is set against a backdrop of black and white footage of the company performing passages from the actual piece, propelled forward by the pulsating rhythms of its musical score. The intricacy of Child's use of repetition and patterns and the way the

    Performing Arts
  • Soar
    Euan Macdonald
    Euan Macdonald: 9,000 PIECES
    Apr 9, 2011 – Jun 12, 2011
    2nd Floor Galleries

    Euan Macdonald's work in video, drawing and installation springs directly from his interest in the dynamics of change and the effects of time and chance on pictorial and social conditions.

    Visual Arts
  • Reflect
    Daily Lives
    Daily Lives
    Feb 25, 2011 – Jun 12, 2011
    FREE
    Room for Big Ideas

    Inspired by artist Song Dong’s investigations of family, consumerism, and the small meditative moments that punctuate an ordinary life, Daily Lives is a group exhibition borne out of a collaboration between YBCA and the Chinese Cultural Center.

    Visual Arts
  • Community Program
    Company C Contemporary Ballet: Spring Program 2011
    Apr 30, 2011 – May 1, 2011
    Palace of Fine Arts Theater

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    Company C Contemporary Ballet presents
    Spring Program 2011
    Saturday, April 30, 8 PM
    Sunday, May 1, 2 PM
    Palace of Fine Arts Theater

    Tickets: $40, $30, $18
    Senior, Student, Children: $3 Off*
    YBCA Member: $3 Off*
    *contact YBCA box office for discounted tickets

    Named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2010, the Bay Area's Company C Contemporary Ballet's eclectic and electrifying style redefines ballet for a new generation with its dynamic and adventurous repertoire. Quirky, irreverent, delicious and dark ballets welcome the spring season featuring two world premieres: Ballet Noir by Artistic Director Charles Anderson, and Slip-Ring by Jodie Gates. The program also includes the return of two popular ballets: Patrick Corbin's Psychedelic Six-pack and Twyla Tharp's Surfer at the River Styx.

    www.companycballet.org

  • Community Program
    2011 SFJAZZ Spring Season — Lavay Smith, Crazy in Love with Patsy Cline
    Apr 30, 2011 12:00am

    Tickets available at sfjazz.org »

    Celebrating their shared history, Lavay Smith brings a bracing, bluesy jolt of energy to the jazz and country crossroads with Crazy In Love With Patsy Cline, a tribute to the vocal icon featuring pedal steel virtuoso Bobby Black and members of Smith’s Red Hot Skillet Lickers. With her big, luscious voice and sassy stage presence, Smith infuses sultry swing into Cline’s timeless tales of woe.

    Performing Arts
  • Reflect
    Lucinda Childs: Dance
    San Francisco Performances presents Philip Glass, piano
    Apr 30, 2011 3:00pm
    Lam Research Theater at YBCA
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    Legendary composer Philip Glass will perform a solo recital of classic works from the period around Lucinda Childs' minimalist masterpiece Dance. The program includes Mad Rush—originally composed for organ in 1980. Besides other pieces he wrote during the Dance era, Glass will also play a selection from his Etudes.

    Performing Arts
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