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Review: Liss Fain Dance OPEN TIME a Performance Installation co-presented with Z Space, September 27-29, 2024, San Francisco, CA
Emerging from a dark tunnel, a ghostly Victorian house of floating windows and scrim walls awaits us in the center of Z Space’s vast Lisa...
Jen Norris
Oct 1, 20245 min read


Review: Jocelyn Reyes, REYES Dance present ‘DIOS’ODC Theater, San Francisco – September 6-7, 2024 (Preview Sept. 5)
First generation Mexican-Salvadoran artist Jocelyn Reyes crafts powerful and visceral dance performances using broad theatricality and...
Jen Norris
Sep 7, 20245 min read


Review: FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival 2024 Weekend Two, August 23-25, 2024 ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival 2024 Weekend Two at ODC Theater includes a generous helping of contemporary dance performances. Joining...
Jen Norris
Aug 28, 20246 min read


Review: CounterPulse co-presents BODYSONNET’s production of ‘OTHER/self’, Aug 22-24, 2024, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area dance scene is in the middle of a generational sea change. Younger performers, who have enthralled and enticed us in the...
Jen Norris
Aug 23, 20247 min read


Review: ODC Theater presents Paufve Dance’s ‘Sisters’ part of State of Play 2024 dance festival, Aug 1 & 2, ODC Theatre, San Francisco, CA
The world premiere of Paufve Dance’s Sisters, on the first day of ODC Theater’s State of Play 2024 dance festival is sold-out. The house...
Jen Norris
Aug 3, 20245 min read


Review: ODC Theater presents David Harvey & Babatunji’s ‘Chimera’ and Audrey Johnson’s ‘For A Moment/No Longer’ as part of State of Play Festival, August 1 -4, ODC Theatre, San Francisco, CA
In the wake of pandemic-induced venue closures, San Francisco’s dance scene has been meandering toward its former vibrancy. Fast forward...
Jen Norris
Aug 3, 20245 min read


Review: ODC/Dance presents “Summer Sampler 2014” July 18-21, 2024, ODC Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Art informs art. Dance influences dance. Sometimes this is more transparent than others. Choreographer Catherine Galasso developed 10,000...
Jen Norris
Jul 20, 20246 min read


Review: Lesher Center for the Arts & Diablo Regional Arts Association present Ballet Hispánico, July 17, 2024, Walnut Creek, CA
What a treat it is to see the renowned Ballet Hispánico in the Bay Area, here for a single evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in...
Jen Norris
Jul 18, 20245 min read


Review: Circus Bella’s WOW presented by TJPA in Salesforce Park, Sunday, July 14, 2024, San Francisco, CA
Free, open-to-all, and fun for ages from two to ninety-two, Circus Bella’s 15th Annual Circus in the Parks arrives in Salesforce Park on...
Jen Norris
Jul 17, 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...
Jen Norris
Jul 14, 20245 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...
Jen Norris
Jun 20, 20246 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...
Jen Norris
Jun 16, 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...
Jen Norris
Jun 4, 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...
Jen Norris
May 22, 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...
Jen Norris
May 19, 20245 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...
Jen Norris
May 18, 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...
Jen Norris
May 13, 20246 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...
Jen Norris
May 11, 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...
Jen Norris
May 6, 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...
Jen Norris
Apr 22, 20245 min read
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