Mary Sano and Her Duncan
Dancers
Sat/29-Sun/30, Mary
Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing
SOME LOVE AFFAIRS keep going on and on and on. Mary Sano and
G. Hoffman Soto certainly can attest to that. Sano's fascination with
Isadora Duncan began 25 years ago when she started studying with Duncan
protégé Mignon Garland. Today the Japanese-born artist
is still one of the Bay Area's most committed Duncan dancers, dividing
her time between Japan and the United States. Her South of Market studio
has become a gathering place for not only Duncan devotees but also other
artists who admire Duncan's spirit of independence and devotion to personal
vision. One of them is Soto, who in 1973 became involved with another
strong woman with a clear vision, Anna Halpern. Soto joins Sano and
her six dancers for this Duncan birthday concert the seventh
annual Dionysian Festival with his own eight-member Sotomotion
ensemble. All music is played live, featuring pianist Aki Amai. Sat.,
8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m., 245 Fifth St., Studio 314, S.F. $13-$16. (415)
357-1817, www.duncandance.org. (Rita Felciano)