Dallas Opera Names Nicole Paiement Principal Guest Conductor
by Tyler Peterson
- Jun 11, 2014
The Dallas Opera has announced the appointment of a critically acclaimed, San Francisco-based Artistic Director and contemporary music specialist to serve as the company's first “Principal Guest Conductor” in our 57-year history.
Lee Wayne Sets Releases Adventure, PROJECT BLACK
by Christina Mancuso
- Aug 6, 2013
A season of understanding and a cycle that would induce anyone willing to try it was all that was on an envelope. For in that moment, the sun emerged, and birds singing their songs could be heard as each tree swayed in the morning mist to greet tired eyes. The apples rained from the sky as the storm swiftly set its course without any evidence of its approach. Who would have thought that a tunnel cloud could bring a beautiful array of colors within such a dark setting? This mysterious gray cloak of darkness had its own agenda. As the earth trembled from the earthquakes, a secret knowledge was uncovered from another world not human.
Photos: UC Berkeley Presents 4 New Dance Works in 'Berkeley Dance Project 2013: Aperture'; Thru 4/28
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 28, 2013
From 1964-68, Famed photographer Ansel Adams spent time at the University of California on a groundbreaking photographic project commissioned by UC President Clark Kerr. At its core the project, entitled Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light, the University of California motto) asked Adams to answer the question "How can we imagine our future?" Over the course of the project, Adams took thousands of photos of the entire UC system, culminating in a published book written by Nancy Newhall in 1967, which was revisited in a full-year, campuswide multimedia exploration of Adams' work this year called On the Same Page.
