Jen Norris
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...
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JEN NORRIS DANCE REVIEWS
Jen Norris
Jan 22, 20235 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...
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Jen Norris
Jan 20, 20234 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...
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Jen Norris
Dec 15, 20224 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...
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Jen Norris
Dec 5, 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...
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Jen Norris
Dec 3, 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...
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Jen Norris
Nov 20, 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....
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Jen Norris
Nov 14, 20225 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...
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Jen Norris
Nov 6, 20223 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...
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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...
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Jen Norris
Nov 3, 20224 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...
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Jen Norris
Oct 29, 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...
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Jen Norris
Oct 25, 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...
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Jen Norris
Oct 23, 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...
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Jen Norris
Oct 21, 20224 min read
Review: RAWdance & TJPA’s Salesforce Park present “Step Song Story” –October 16, 2022 12 & 2 pm
Outdoor performance in San Francisco is always a risk, with weather being so unpredictable. The rewards when things go well can be...
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Jen Norris
Oct 17, 20224 min read
Review: Rogelio Lopez & Dancers presents “Entre Despierto y Dormido” Joe Goode Annex Oct 14 & 15, 22
"It's delightful, it's delicious. It's delectable, it's delirious,” these Cole Porter lyrics summarize the experience of watching Rogelio...
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Jen Norris
Oct 15, 20224 min read
Review: Chitresh Das Institute “Invoking the River” ODC Theater, San Francisco –October 14-16, 2022
Classical Indian dance troupe Chitresh Das Institute presented the world premiere of Charlotte Moraga’s Invoking the River at the ODC...
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Jen Norris
Oct 14, 20224 min read
Review: QUAKE created and performed by Kat Gorospe Cole Counterpulse, San Francisco–October 13 & 14
Bathed in the sounds of a steady rain, the audience at Counterpulse chats, anticipating the beginning of QUAKE, Kat Gorospe Cole’s solo...
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Jen Norris
Oct 9, 20224 min read
Review: Garrett + Moulton Productions – 20th Anniversary ODC Theater, San Francisco – Oct 6 - 9,2022
A twentieth anniversary is an auspicious occasion for a contemporary dance company. Garrett + Moulton Productions (GMP) took this moment...
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Jen Norris
Oct 2, 20224 min read
Review: Li Chiao-Ping Dance – Here Lies The Truth Counterpulse, San Francisco – September 29-October
Counterpulse co-presented Li Chio-Ping Dance’s (LCPD) Here Lies The Truth September 29 – October 1. LCPD the other co-presenter brought...
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