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Santa Barbara is blessed with an abundance of top notch musical performances and the Lobero Theatre is arguably the best venues for partaking of the riches. Performers love to play this venerable hall and the variety of styles we can experience there is pretty astonishing, from classical, bluegrass & the…
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Sankai Juku founder and artistic director Ushio Amagatsu is one of the most elegant and sublime practitioners of the singular art of Butoh dance theater which arose in post-World War II Japan. Mr. Amagatsu has taken it far beyond its roots as an avant-garde art form that turned away from imitating…
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State Street Ballet and the Santa Barbara Choral Society have collaborated numerous times since shortly after the Granada Theatre re-opened it’s doors in 2008 after an extensive makeover. “Carmina Burana” was performed in May of that year and was a huge success, melding the thrilling music of Carl Orff, SSB co-artisitic…
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“Somewhere,” the last new creation for the last ever Danceworks concluded with a standing ovation after a rousing performance by creators Doug Varone and Dancers. The evening was also a celebration of 22 years of Dianne Vapnek’s tireless efforts to make Santa Barbara a mecca for dance on the west…
