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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Review: BRAVA presents Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcal’s Pachuquísmo March 12, 2023 BRAVA Theater, SF
I leave Brava Theater with a new bounce in my step, inspired by the syncopated rhythms of Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla's show,...
Jen Norris
Mar 14, 20234 min read


Review: Oceánica Ballet presents EVOLUTION March 10-12, 2023 Bay Area Ballet Conservatory, So. SF
The Bay Area has a new non-profit, Oceánica Ballet, whose mission is to “enliven the San Francisco Bay Area cultural landscape by making...
Jen Norris
Mar 11, 20234 min read


Reflection: Dance Generators – Pause to Bridge – March 4, 2023 ODC Theater, San Francisco
The Bay Area is rich in intergenerational dance performances. This January Risa Jaroslaw featured two elder dancers in her...
Jen Norris
Mar 6, 20235 min read


Review: Keith Johnson/Dancers presents DRIFTER March 3 & 4, 2023 Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco
DRIFTER presented by Keith Johnson/Dancers a quartet of dances is structured like a collection of connected short stories. Each chapter...
Jen Norris
Mar 4, 20234 min read
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