Sonic Runway, the first art installation in San Jose’s Playa to the Paseo partnership with Burning Man, will end its wildly popular four-month run at City Hall on March 9. We’ll certainly miss it, as the brilliantly fun set of lighted arches provided nightly entertainment for downtown visitors, who could be found experiencing its sights and sounds right up to midnight. The piece by artists Warren Trezevant and Rob Jensen isn’t going out quietly, though. The closing night will feature a fashion show, with models walking the runway, a trunk show featuring Bay Area designers in the rotunda and a lot of music.
Dance to live music by the Huey White Show Band, popular weekly fixtures at the San Pablo Senior Center, plus tunes by DJ Chuck, and enjoy appetizers, raffle prizes and a historical display, The cost is $15 per person and tickets and details are available by calling the senior center at 510-559-7677, Performances will be in the ballet inspired spoon rest, trinket dish, jewelry dish auditorium of the school, 1294 Albina Ave, at the Albany/Berkeley border, Tickets will be available at the door for $10 general admission; $8 students, and $5 children 12 and under, Parking is available on the campus..
Petit based his ballet on Prosper Mérimée’s short story and George Bizet’s rousing opera score. The setting remains a Seville cigarette factory, whose workers all smoke. In this production they come across as a tough, self-involved underclass with no illusions about anybody, including themselves. Outsiders get eaten alive. The women, with big hair and tiny skirts, use staccato pointe work like stilettos. Stomping patterns rise to thunderous effect. Sitting with arms crossed, they become an impenetrable wall. Chairs are weapons but also prisons. Petit’s theatrical instincts find their best expression in the dangerous, stylized, life-is-cheap ensemble passages.
With just about 1,000 residents, many folks are related and secrets have a way of spilling out, “There’s always somebody talking,” says Ashley’s cousin, Lissa, “and it seems like to us since she disappeared, everybody got quiet, I don’t know if they’re scared, but so are we, ballet inspired spoon rest, trinket dish, jewelry dish That’s why we need people to speak up.”, Missing posters of Ashley are displayed in grocery stores and the occasional sandwich shop, They show a fresh-faced, grinning woman, flashing the peace sign, In one, she gazes into the camera, her long hair blowing in the wind..
Classical Music on the Square. 5 p.m. Sept. 10, Bay Shore Lyric Opera. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. Free. 650-780-7311 or http://redwoodcity.org/classicalKidchella: A Kids’ Rock Series. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays. Aug. 13, Alison Faith Levy’s Big Time Tot Rock. Sept. 10, Andy Z and the Andyland Band. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. Free. 650-780-7311 or http://ww.redwoodcity.org/kidchella. Music at Kohl Mansion Chamber Concert Series. Concerts begin at 7 p.m. Pre-concert talks by musicologist Kai Christiansen at 6 p.m. Dec. 18: Holiday Gala, Aulos Ensemble with Julianne Baird. 650-762-1130 or http://musicatkohl.org/buy-tickets.
