Notable Performaces
Glass Suite / Come to the Table
Composed by JJ Hollingsworth
Featuring pianist Nikolay Khozyainov
Choreography by Kimber Rudo
Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
November, 2023
Recognition for Come to the Table
Come to the Table is a short documentary film about the premiere performance of Glass Suite
- San Francisco Arthouse: Best Dance Short Film
- New York International Women’s Film Festival: Best Choreography in a Music Video
- IndieFEST Award of Excellence: Choreography
- Rome International Short Festival Best Social Justice: Semi-Finalist: Best Documentary
- Melbourne Independent Film Festival Semi-Finalist: Best Short Documentary
- New York Indie Short Fest Nominee: Best Documentary Short
- The Impact DOCS Awards Selected for showing: Documentary Short
- LA Film & Documentary Awards Selected for showing: Musical/Dance Film
- New York Film & Cinematography Awards Selected for showing: Musical/Dance film
Beethoven — 6 Ländler
Choreography by Kimber Rudo
Jules Martin's 1848 New Polka Quadrille
Reconstructed by Richard Powers
Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella
Opera San Jose, Alma Deutscher conducting
California Theater, San Jose, CA
December, 2022
Charles Durang's Russian Mazurka Quadrille
Reconstructed by Richard Powers
San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
The War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA
June, 2017
“The show opened with a specimen of white European ethnic dance, a smooth 19th century ballroom party, dispatched with much elegance by members of the Academy of Danse Libre. In context, all those gloved couples yielding to the charms of the waltzes and polkas of the time really do suggest a historical era.”
“They were all mesmerizing, from the swirling Academy of Danse Libre couples displaying Polish, Czech, German and Russian social dances of the 19th century (accompanied by a 10-piece ensemble with piano, flute, horns, strings and percussion) who opened, to the closing festivities of Fogo Na Roupa Performing Company, which colorfully re-enacted an Afro-Brazilian coronation of the king and queen of the Congo."
“[B]oth weekends were blazing with energy. The first was more political, with respect shown for all traditions but a strong undercurrent of protest against the European cultures who had subjugated the Americas. These were contemporary dances created from traditional materials. The satirical dancers of De Rompe y Raja (Peruvian) followed a Stanford group of antiquarians who revived European ballroom steps (beautifully, with great style) then flat-out mocked the minuets of the conquistadores with grotesque parodies of steps we had just seen.
Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella
Opera San Jose, Jane Glover conducting
California Theater, San Jose, CA
December, 2017
“Opera San Jose didn’t skimp in staging Cinderella. Late 18th-century costumes by Johann Stegmeir and sets by Steven Kemp dazzle. The ballroom scene (for which Deutscher wrote a toe-tapping waltz) is choreographed with stately grace by historical dance expert Richard Powers.”
Music & Dance from the Golden Age of Hollywood
Peninsula Symphony, Mitchell Sardou Klein conducting
Flint Center (January 17 2015)
San Mateo Performing Arts Center (January 16 2015)
Rotunda Series
San Francisco City Hall
May, 2016
San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
June, 2015
Vienna, City of My Dreams
Peninsula Symphony, Mitchell Sardou Klein conducting
Flint Center (January 22 2011)
San Mateo Performing Arts Center (January 21 2011)