Year: 2006

Classical Meets Radical

Lyon Opera Ballet’s Yorgos Loukos Pushes the Art Form to Extremes

Lyon Opera Ballet’s Yorgos Loukos Pushes the Art Form to Extremes

Plenty of Europe’s opera houses boast resident ballet companies, but few take risks like France’s Lyon Opera Ballet (LOB). When Lyon Opera Director Louis Erlo invited Fran§oise Adret to create a new ballet company for the opera back in 1984, her instructions were not to preserve the classical canon but instead to develop an adventurous repertoire of contemporary choreography.

Shaman Stories

Mythic Visions: Yarn Painting of a Huichol Shaman

At UCSB’s University Art Museum. Shows through December 3
The paintings in the University Art Museum’s exhibition Mythic Visions: Yarn Painting of a Huichol Shaman do not have names, but to refer to them as “Untitled” would be pigheaded. They are such complete statements that they don’t need names or labels.

Showroom Fresh, Mint Condition

Season of the New Maestro, Opening Concert, presented by the Santa Barbara Symphony. At the Arlington Theatre, Saturday, October 14.

The 2007 model of the Santa Barbara Symphony rolled into the Arlington on Saturday with Nir Kabaretti at the wheel, and the new version of this premium luxury sedan of an orchestra sounded gorgeous.

Beat Me, Dmitri

INSUPER NOVA: Paul Galbraith, who plays a unique guitar-held like a cello and containing two extra strings (one high, one low)-will perform at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Thursday, October 19, in the Mary Craig Auditorium of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State St.)

Tragedy Abounds

We are barely four days into the first Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival, and Santa Barbara has already witnessed an astonishing 12 performances of six different Shakespearean tragedies. From King Richard II to Timon of Athens, with stops in between for versions of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, it has been a wild ride, and it’s not even half over.

Tru Confessions

Infamous. Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, and Sandra Bullock star in a film written and directed by Douglas McGrath.

Dej vu all over again, Infamous is primarily odd because it’s the second film this year on one hyper-specific topic, Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. Of course, there have been other twin film releases: Tombstone/Wyatt Earp and Dangerous Liaisons/Valmont among them.