Jamedra Brown-Fleischman is back as my Do List co-host this week to talk about San Francisco Ballet’s big dance festival, Unbound, and its 12 world premieres — and about another world premiere from San Francisco queer choreographer Sean Dorsey. Plus, we ask: What would possess seasoned Broadway show producers to mash up the Go-Go’s pop-punk with an Elizabethan melodrama?! The answers await in the podcast above and the story links below.
April 13: The Ibeyi sisters make thrilling music of the African diaspora.
April 19-21: Choreographer Sean Dorsey offers a transgender and queer take on how to be a better man.
April 20-May 6: SF Ballet’s Unbound looks to partially answer the question: Where is dance headed in the 21st century?
April 13 & 20: Allan Hall’s jazz band Ratatet makes exquisite chamber jazz in shows at Berkeley’s Jazz Conservatory and at San Jose’s Art Boutiki
