Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When Ken Russell started making films — short films — for the BBC in 1959, the idea was that he was to make documentaries. These ...

Behind every genius is the figure in the shadows, the lesser light whose stability and sanity let the magic happen. This poor schlub’s story is rarely told. Yet that is the surprise, the hook and the ...

The work of a 20th-century dance innovator inspires four women of the present day in this film, composed like a piece of music by Damien Manivel. By Glenn Kenny Jérôme Bel has decided, for ecological ...

ORINDA — Call us suckers for dance, but there’s something intensely gratifying about watching Lois Flood waft barefoot across the Orinda Library community hall stage. Yes, she’s not a spring pup. And ...

Isadora Duncan, believer in free love and barefoot dance, had many children. Some of them are in this room. “Bankrupt. Bolsheviks at the door. There is no money for our school,” frets actress Kimberly ...

When Lori Belilove was 12, her fate was sealed. “My family traveled all across Europe and we ended up in Athens and we were told to look up a phenomenal character, an elderly gentleman named Vassos ...

Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by the 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance between Sept. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009.