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Review: Laguna Dance Festival presents Cincinnati Ballet -Feb 24, 2023 at Laguna Beach Playhouse, CA
Kudos to Jodie Gates, Founder and Artistic Director of the Laguna Dance Festival for presenting two amazing Midwestern dance companies,...
Jen Norris
Feb 25, 20234 min read


Review: LA Dance Project presents Roberts’ LINEAGE & Smith/Schraiber’s QUARTET FOR FIVE 2.23-25 DTLA
LADP's cast of Jamar Roberts's Lineage bow at end of world premiere show Feb 23, 2023 in DTLA; Photo J. Norris The lobby of L.A. Dance...
Jen Norris
Feb 24, 20235 min read


Review: James Graham Dance Theater's DANCE LOVERS February 16-18, 23 -Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco
Dance Lovers 11, an annual presentation of James Graham Dance Theater, takes place in mid-February. Comprised of five duets by “couples,...
Jen Norris
Feb 17, 20235 min read


Review: ODC/Dance presents "Path of Miracles" February 10-12, 2023 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Choreographer KT Nelson’s Path of Miracles, which unfolds within the awe-inspiring French Gothic architecture of San Francisco’s Grace...
Jen Norris
Feb 13, 20234 min read


Review: Motordance & Rhythmix Cultural Works present Water in the Kettle - Feb. 3&4, 23 Alameda, CA
Water in the Kettle, a presentation of Motordance and Alameda’s Rhythmix Cultural Works, is feminist musical theater. It is a tapestry...
Jen Norris
Feb 5, 20234 min read


Review: San Francisco Ballet Next@90 Blanc, Schreier & Possokhov January 25, 2023 War Memorial Opera
San Francisco Ballet’s (SFB) debuted the final three ballets of the next@90 Festival on January 25. It was a disappointing end to...
Jen Norris
Jan 26, 20235 min read


Review: SF Ballet Next@90 Caniparoli, Breiner, Oishi Jan. 21, 2023 San Francisco Opera House
San Francisco Ballet’s (SFB) ambitious next@90 festival opened their second triptych of new works on January 21. It includes a dance by...
Jen Norris
Jan 23, 20236 min read


Review: San Francisco Ballet next@90 Garland, Roberts, Rowe Jan. 20, 2023, San Francisco Opera House
San Francisco Ballet’s next@90 festival features an ambitious slate of nine new works by choreographers from around the world to ring in...
Jen Norris
Jan 22, 20235 min read


Review Risa Jaroslow & Dancers “Talking Circle” May 2022 Counterpulse, SF; January 2023 FLAX Oakland
Risa Jaroslow & Dancers premiered ‘Talking Circle’ at Counterpulse theater in San Francisco in May 2022. Featuring a multi-generational...
Jen Norris
Jan 20, 20234 min read


Review: Nava Dance Theatre “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” Dec 9-11, 2022 ODC Theater, San Francisco
As a novice viewer of classical Indian dance, it was with some trepidation that I took my seat in the ODC Theater for Nava Dance...
Jen Norris
Dec 15, 20224 min read


Review: Molly Rose-Williams “We Are All Friends” Dec. 1-4, 2022 NOHSpace, San Francisco
With We Are All Friends Molly Rose-Williams has created a solo work on herself that is simply enchanting. That is not to say that it is...
Jen Norris
Dec 5, 20224 min read


Review: L.A. Contemporary Dance Company “Dancing in Snow” December 1-4, 2022 ODC Theater, SF
An early tableau in Roderick George’s Dancing in Snow (2022) is memorable. Nine dancers stand, faces angle toward the sky. Their gloved...
Jen Norris
Dec 3, 20224 min read


Review: Sean Dorsey Dance “The Lost Art of Dreaming” November 18-20, 2022 Z Space, San Francisco
Sean Dorsey, and his eponymous dance company, has many fans in San Francisco. They are out in force Saturday, November 19 at Z Space....
Jen Norris
Nov 20, 20224 min read


Review Rosanna Tavarez “Piece x Piece” & Bianca Cabrera “Fever Dreams”November 11-13, 22 ODC Theater
ODC Theater Presents’ 2022 Fall Season comes to a close this weekend, with a double bill of contemporary dance. Rosanna Tavarez and...
Jen Norris
Nov 14, 20225 min read


Review: Marjani Forté-Saunders “Memoirs of a …Unicorn” November 4 -6, 2022 ODC Theater
Commanding storytelling, nuanced dancing, images both real and magical woven together to hold an audience rapt, to embody hard truths, to...
Jen Norris
Nov 6, 20223 min read


Review: Hope Mohr “liberation studies” Nov. 5, 2022 - Francisco Studios - 2377 San Jose Ave, SF
Artists make art, pandemics be damned, and so choreographer Hope Mohr developed a drawing practice. Working in black ink on large sheets...
Jen Norris
Nov 6, 20223 min read


Review: Sage Ni’Ja Whitson “A Meditation on Tongues” - October 28-30, 2022 ODC Theater
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s A Mediation on Tongues played a three-day run at ODC Theater in late October. It is billed as a live...
Jen Norris
Nov 3, 20224 min read


Review: Nancy Karp + Dancers “fly through the night, and land near dawn” –Oct. 28, 22 Dresher Studio
Nancy Karp + Dancers celebrates their 40th Anniversary October 28-30, with the world premiere of fly through the night, and land near...
Jen Norris
Oct 29, 20224 min read


Review: Clarissa Dyas + Jakob Pek present “Something Remains” Oct. 21, 2022 Dresher Ensemble Studio
The room was abuzz in anticipation of the debut of a new creative voice come to the fore. A Bay Area dance insiders’ event, everyone...
Jen Norris
Oct 25, 20224 min read


Review: Kularts with Brava presents “Nursing These Wounds” Oct. 21 - 30, 2022 Brava Theater Center
We begin with a ritual. Figures dressed in white descend a stair and pass between the audience members lining the alley behind the...
Jen Norris
Oct 23, 20224 min read
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