Press — Menlowe Ballet

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Image Archive

2016 Spring Season
Collage
(coming soon)

2015 Winter Season
It's a Wonderful Nutcracker

2015 Spring Season
Rapture

2014 Fall Season
Legend

2014 Spring Season
Transcendence

2013 Fall Season
Lineage

Menlowe Ballet Reviews

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"So why not try a mashup with Frank Capra’s sentimental 1946 holiday film “It’s a Wonderful Life”? That’s the idea behind 'It’s a Wonderful Nutcracker.'”

A 'Wonderful Nutcracker" teams Capra and Tchaikovsky

"Sparkling wine's not a bad metaphor for 'Bru's Sweet,' a playful, sexy dance that features plenty of bubbly fun, yet tempers the froth with passages of dry wit and melancholy."

Menlowe Ballet commissions new work set to Dave Brubeck music

"Legend blends elements of both Eastern and Western dance traditions. The score for the production is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary Mongolian songs with other musical arrangements."

Legend comes to life: Menlowe Ballet premieres dance based on Mongolian folktale

"Menlowe Ballet continues its tradition of tapping into the star talent of the Bay Area ballet world with the choice of Dennis Nahat as guest choreographer for its April production, 'Transcendence.'"

Menlowe Ballet spring show: from classic to 'otherworldly'

"The music draws on his Chinese heritage. And 'the movement has some of the folk Chinese steps infused with my voice and, from being in Oakland Ballet so many years, that sense of theatricality.'"

Menlowe Ballet: Pieces inspired by Michael Lowe's heritage

Photo Gallery

To request high-resolution images, please contact Lisa Shiveley at lisa@menloweballet.org.

Menlowe Ballet Photo Gallery

Michael Lowe's Plague — 2014 Fall Season, Legend

Photo: John Gerbetz

Michael Lowe's It's a Wonderful Nutcracker — 2015 Winter Season

Photo: Austin Forbord

Michael Lowe's Tribute — 2013 Fall Season, Lineage

Photo: Alejandro Gomez

Michael Lowe's Legend of the Seven Suns — 2015 Spring Season, Rapture

Photo: David Allan Sheetz

Michael Lowe's Plague — 2014 Fall Season, Legend

Photo: Eric Raeber

Michael Lowe's Serei — 2013 Fall Season, Lineage

Photo: Alejandro Gomez

Dennis Nahat's Swan Lake, Pas de Cinq — 2014 Spring Season, Transcendence

Photo: John Gerbetz

Michael Lowe's Chuntian — 2013 Spring Season, Reverie

Photo: Amitava Sarkar

Reginald Ray-Savage's Bru's Sweet — 2015 Spring Season, Rapture

Photo: Alejandro Gomez

Dennis Nahat's In Concert — 2014 Fall Season, Legend

Photo: John Gerbetz

Michael Lowe's Serei — 2012 Fall Season, Encore

Photo: Teru Takahashi

Michael Lowe's It's a Wonderful Nutcracker — 2015 Winter Season

Photo: Austin Forbord

Michael Lowe's Playing Love — 2015 Spring Season, Rapture

Photo: David Allan Sheetz

Michael Lowe's Legend of the Seven Suns — 2014 Fall Season, Legend

Photo: Alejandro Gomez

Michael Lowe's It's a Wonderful Nutcracker — 2015 Winter Season