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Review: ‘fluid forms’ presented by FACT/SF, Tunnel Tops Park in the Presidio, San Francisco June 11,
FACT/SF, a contemporary dance company based in San Francisco, has a special place in my heart. They were the first to find a way to...
Jen Norris
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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Review: pateldanceworks, fault lines, site-specific performance at Fort Funston, SF, May 19-20, 2023
We gather at the edge of the continent, at Fort Funston, atop two-hundred-foot-high oceanfront cliffs managed by the National Park...
Jen Norris
May 23, 20234 min read
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Review: Dragon Dances presents ‘We Aren’t Alone Here’, ODC Theater, San Francisco, May 19, 2023
ODC Theater is abuzz with happy patrons anticipating this one-night only presentation by Erin Yen’s Dragon Dances. The evening partially...
Jen Norris
May 21, 20235 min read
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Review: Presidio Dance Theatre, 25th Anniversary Gala, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, May 18, 2023
Presidio Performing Arts Foundation (PPAF) and their performance company and school, Presidio Dance Theatre (PDT), pulled out all the...
Jen Norris
May 21, 20234 min read
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Review: Sharp & Fine, "Imaginary Country", Z Space, San Francisco, May 12-14 – 20, 2023
Imagine your best friend telling you that she is newly clairvoyant, able to see the future, everyone’s future, forever. Sharp & Fine’s...
Jen Norris
May 15, 20234 min read
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Review: Detour Dance, We Build Houses Here, OASIS, San Francisco May 4 – 20, 2023
Promising an immersive theatrical experience featuring a cast of shipwrecked glittering drag artists in an evening of drag, dance and...
Jen Norris
May 14, 20234 min read
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Review: SMUIN Contemporary Ballet, Dance Series 2: 2022-23 Season, YBCA Theater, May 5 – 14, 2023
Sashay, jete or skip your way to SMUIN Contemporary Ballet’s (SMUIN) Dance Series 2 now playing through Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14, at...
Jen Norris
May 8, 20233 min read
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Review: Horizon Stanzas a new dance by Hope Mohr – Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco April 27, 29 & 30
In her new dance Horizon Stanzas, premiering at the Joe Goode Annex April 27, Hope Mohr creates an epic feminist battle. This world is...
Jen Norris
Apr 29, 20235 min read
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Reflection: Dance Mission Theater presents D.I.R.T Prog. C a performance by & for the people 4/23/23
Citizen SUPREME are words which title the 2023 iteration of the Dance Mission’s D.I.R.T. (Dance In Revolting Times) Festival and...
Jen Norris
Apr 27, 20234 min read
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Review: Post:ballet & Berkeley Ballet Theater w. Kronos Performing Arts Assoc. ‘still be here'
An abundance of riches is something to be savored, not taken in all at once, lest the beauty and uniqueness of one jewel be blurred by...
Jen Norris
Apr 24, 20236 min read
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Review: UNA Productions: ‘Grass is Green’ April 20 - 22, 2023, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
I am dying to know what other viewers thought after attending UNA Productions’ Grass is Green, choreographed by Chuck Wilt, which made...
Jen Norris
Apr 21, 20235 min read
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Review: Cuba Caribe presents "Mouth of a Shark' March 31-April 2, 2023, ODC Theater, San Francisco
“No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark.’ The first two lines of British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s “Home” are the...
Jen Norris
Apr 5, 20237 min read
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Review: Peninsula Ballet Theater & Ensambles Ballet Folklorico Carmen & Frida April 1-2, 2023
As women’s history month comes to a close, Peninsula Ballet Theater (PBT) and Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco (Ensambles)...
Jen Norris
Apr 2, 20235 min read
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Review: ODC Dance Downtown Programs A & B March 29-April 2, 2023, Blue Shield Theater, YBCA, SF
ODC/Dance (ODC) is a force to be reckoned with artistically and institutionally. Five weeks ago, these eleven dancers were performing the...
Jen Norris
Mar 31, 20235 min read
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Report: San Francisco Youth Theatre’s Dancing Home March 29, 2023 Bernal Branch, San Francisco Pub
Performers from SFYT's Dancing Home performance in Bernal Library Community Room; Photo J Norris Bernal Library’s Community Room was full...
Jen Norris
Mar 30, 20232 min read
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Reflection & Poem: Violence & Joy Showing of 'Lost In The Woods' March 25, 2023, Oakland, CA
A Secret Show: Violence and Joy presents Lost in the Woods March 25, 7:00 p.m. The invitation comes via text, the location undisclosed....
Jen Norris
Mar 30, 20234 min read
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Review: Robert Moses KIN presents 2023 Presidio Home Season March 24-26, 2023, Presidio Theater, SF
We live in a time when the teaching of African-American history is once again, or perhaps still, contentious, vulnerable, dangerous and...
Jen Norris
Mar 25, 20235 min read
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Review: Dance Mission Presents WOMEN IN HIP HOP 2023 March 19, 2023, Dance Mission Theater, SF
Dance Mission Theater is thumping with the tunes of DJ Nina Sol. Audience entry for Women in Hip Hop 2023 (WIHH), a one-night-only...
Jen Norris
Mar 19, 20233 min read
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Review: Oakland Ballet’s Dancing Moons Festival at Oakland Asian Cultural Center March 16-18, 2023
As we make our way to the Oakland Asian Cultural Center for Oakland Ballet’s second annual Dancing Moons Festival, we pass under a canopy...
Jen Norris
Mar 18, 20235 min read
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Review: San Francisco Ballet’s The Colors of Dance - March 14, 2023 War Memorial Opera House, SF
The Colors of Dance, San Francisco Ballet’s (SFB) final mixed repertory program of the 2023 season is a crowd pleaser through and through....
Jen Norris
Mar 16, 20235 min read
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