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Jen Norris
Jul 14, 20245 min read
Review: JAD Experience presents the world-premiere of ‘VISCERĀLIS’, Tara Firma Farms, Petaluma, CA, July 12-21, 2024
Choreographer Julia Adam’s VISCERĀLIS has its premiere July 12 at Tara Firma Farm in the Petaluma hills as part of a spectacular...
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Jen Norris
Jun 20, 20246 min read
Review: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents RAWdance: "Drawing on a Decade," Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, June 14 & 15, 2024
RAWdance returns to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (YBGF) June 14 and 15 with a trio of sight-specific contemporary dances. Each is...
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Jen Norris
Jun 16, 20245 min read
Review: CounterPulse ARC Edge presents Diana Lara’s 'Savia~Sap flow' & 'auiga' by gizeh muñiz vengel with Ernesto Peart Falcón & grisel gg torres, San Francisco, June 6-15, 2024
Responding to the natural world, channeling ancestral customs, and imaging new ways of being in community, Diana Lara and gizeh muñiz...
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Jen Norris
Jun 4, 20245 min read
Review: Skywatchers & Dance Mission Theater present Towards Opulence, the Opera II, Dance Mission Theater, May 31 – June 2, 2024
We are told art can transform lives, but have we seen it? I have. Skywatchers Ensemble, a project of ABD Productions, makes performances...
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Jen Norris
May 22, 20245 min read
Review: Sacramento Ballet presents Innovations works by Balanchine, Schermoly & Caniparoli at The Sofia at B St., Sacramento May 17-19, 2024
In my first outing to Sacramento Ballet, this past weekend, I am pleasantly surprised by the consistently high caliber of dancing and the...
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Jen Norris
May 19, 20245 min read
Review: Melissa Lewis Wong & Joy ChenYu Lewis, flowers and fog 花和霧 Gateway Theater, San Francisco, May 17 – 26, 2024
Melissa Lewis Wong, American born (1992), and her mother Joy ChenYu Lewis, Chinese born (1949), honor each other’s unique spirits with...
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Jen Norris
May 18, 20246 min read
Review: Emily Hansel presents Study Hall, iMPACt Center for Art & Dance, San Francisco, May 16 - 18. 2024
In commercial terms, a dance performance is a product produced by an individual, or a company, and sold to audience members via a...
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Jen Norris
May 13, 20246 min read
Review: Zaccho Dance Theatre and Dancers’ Group present ‘The People’s Palace’, City Hall, San Francisco, May 9 -12. 2024
“I want to live in a community where people are curious about me, instead of creating boundaries,” this phrase, drawn from Joanna...
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Jen Norris
May 11, 20245 min read
Review: Ishami Dance Company in Interwoven Stories of Culture, Belonging and Change, OACC, May 10, 2024
What is a story but the weaving together of words and memories? We gather the stories within ourselves, passing them along, extending...
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Jen Norris
May 6, 20245 min read
Review: SMUIN Contemporary Ballet, Dance Series 2 from 2023-24 Season, Yerba Buena Center, May 3 – 12, 2024
Last month, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Broken Wings, inspired by the life of Frieda Kahlo, made its San Francisco Ballet debut to critical...
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Jen Norris
Apr 22, 20245 min read
Reflection: Dance Mission presents Prumsodon Ok “A Deepest Blue” April 21, 2024 -Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
On Sunday April 21 at Dance Mission Theater, I, and perhaps 100 others, bore witness to the world premiere/closing night of Prumsodun...
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Jen Norris
Apr 20, 20245 min read
Review: Cal Performances at UC Berkeley presents Mark Morris Dance Group, April 19-21, 2024, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA
When is too much of a good thing too much? Friday night’s Cal Performances presentation of the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) at UC...
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Jen Norris
Apr 8, 20245 min read
Review: Nancy Karp + Dancers present 2024 Performance Season, April 6 & 7, 2024 Taube Atrium Theater, San Francisco
At the talkback, following Nancy Karp + Dancers 2024 Performance Season matinee, moderator Charles Amirkhanian refers to Karp’s work as...
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Jen Norris
Apr 5, 20247 min read
Review: CAL Performances at UC Berkeley presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Programs A & B April 2 & 3, 2024, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA
Touring the country like itinerant preachers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) spreads the gospel of dance as the artistic...
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Jen Norris
Apr 1, 20246 min read
Review: ODC/Dance presents “Dance Downtown Program A” March 27 - 31, 2024 Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA, San Francisco, CA
“Art-making calls for our attention. It poses questions, and at its best, proposes fresh ways of seeing and understanding,” so declares...
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Jen Norris
Mar 30, 20245 min read
Review: Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble presents “Gallery” March 29 & 30, 2024 Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto, CA
Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble’s (NCDE) Gallery, a series of nineteen dances, is arranged around the theme of an art exhibition. Each...
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Jen Norris
Mar 26, 20244 min read
Review: “Unstill Life” Rinde Eckert, Risa Jaroslow, Margaret Jenkins, Jon Kinzel, and Vicky Shick, March 21-24, 2024 Dresher Ensemble Studio, Berkeley, CA
The West Coast premiere of Unstill Life, a dance co-created by five celebrated artists, Rinde Eckert, Risa Jaroslow, Margaret Jenkins,...
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Jen Norris
Mar 18, 20245 min read
Review: Cal Performances at UC Berkeley presents The Joffrey Ballet “Anna Karenina” March 15-17, 2024 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA
Anticipating the pleasure of an engaging afternoon, the audience is gathering at Zellerbach Hall to share The Joffrey Ballet’s and Yuri...
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Jen Norris
Mar 11, 20244 min read
Review: ODC Theater presents the world-premiere of Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts: Put Away the Fire, dear, March 8-10, 2024 ODC Theater, San Francisco
Kayla Farrish and her company Decent Structures Arts’s Put Away the Fire, dear is an epic piece of dance theater which confronts the...
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Jen Norris
Mar 8, 20245 min read
Review: American Contemporary Ballet presents: ACB Jazz March 1 -22, 2024, BofA 333 S. Hope St., Los Angeles
“When you’re tired of the sameness and tameness, this is the place,” so reads the enigmatic event marketing. The venue is unique, the...
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