Jen Norris
Review: tiny pistol & detour dance – beloved comet falling up ODC Theater, San Francisco – 9/29-10/1
For their collaboration at the ODC Theater, choreographers Maurya Kerr and Eric Garcia surrounded the performance space with rows of...
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JEN NORRIS DANCE REVIEWS
Jen Norris
Sep 30, 20224 min read
Review: Reyes Dance LASOS at Joe Goode Annex September 29-October 1, 2022
LASOS, a film and live performance event, presented by Reyes Dance at the Joe Goode Annex, creates a powerful visceral impact. ...
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Jen Norris
Sep 5, 20225 min read
Review: Lenora Lee Dance – In the Movement, ODC Theater San Francisco – September 1-11, 2022
Lenora Lee’s In the Movement is a masterful example of how art can be used in support of social justice. It is an immersive...
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Jen Norris
Aug 28, 20224 min read
Review: Nava Dance Theatre "Broken Seeds Still Grow" Bankhead Theater, Livermore - Aug. 27, 2022
Seventy-five years ago, in August 1947, the British divided the Indian subcontinent into the independent nations of Hindu-majority India...
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Jen Norris
Aug 26, 20224 min read
Review: At the Edge of Distance – BOXBLUR Aug 25, 2022
At the Edge of Distance, a presentation of BOXBLUR at San Francisco's Catharine Clark Gallery (CCG) on August 25, had an exhilarating and...
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Jen Norris
Aug 6, 20224 min read
Review: FACT/SF & DANCE RIOT
Should a dance be about something? Even if it is does it matter? What if it is about something esoteric like creativity, which provides a...
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Jen Norris
Aug 4, 20223 min read
Review: Complexions Contemporary Ballet
New York City’s Complexions Contemporary Ballet took the outdoor stage at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater Wednesday August 3 in a two-act...
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Jen Norris
Jul 26, 20224 min read
Review: Bodysonnet neverover – July 23
An outing to see a new performance company at a new-to-me venue is irresistible. And so it was with excitement that I made a reservation...
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Jen Norris
Jul 24, 20224 min read
Review: Choreofest 2022 – July 23
Choreofest, an annual outdoor site-specific contemporary dance festival, returned to Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG) Festival Saturday July 23....
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Jen Norris
Jul 18, 20223 min read
Review: Black Choreographers Festival 2022
One of the last performances I saw pre- COVID was the Black Choreographers Festival (BCF) at Dance Mission Theater. So it was with great...
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Jen Norris
Jul 17, 20224 min read
Review: Peninsula International Dance Festival 2022
A stage filled to the brim with over 150 dancers moving in joy-filled unison, is good for the soul, especially three years into the COVID...
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Jen Norris
Jul 16, 20224 min read
Review: SKETCH 12: Dear Diary - Amy Seiwert's Imagery
Over a dozen iterations, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery has produced an evening of dance focused on a prompt or challenge, in this case inspired...
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Jen Norris
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Review: Sara Shelton Mann7 Excavations / at the edge of the shore and the edge of the world
7 Excavations / at the edge of the shore and the edge of the world, offered for one-night only, took place at sunset on the summer...
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Jen Norris
Jun 18, 20224 min read
Review: Margaret Jenkins Dance Company "Global Moves"
On Thursday night Margaret Jenkins did herself, and her eponymous company Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (MJDC), proud with a world...
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Jen Norris
Jun 15, 20224 min read
Grab Bag of Observations from ODC dance fest
I had the great pleasure of attending many of the events that comprised ODC Dance’s aptly named State of Play Festival. The festival, an...
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Jen Norris
Jun 14, 20223 min read
Review: SAMMAY | ritual for thrivation no. 2
State of Play, ODC Theater’s new San Francisco contemporary dance festival, came to a close this past weekend. The eleven-day festival,...
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Jen Norris
Jun 13, 20223 min read
Review: Kim Ip/KRIMM'S DANCE PARTY: you don’t deserve us
More Than We Deserve on a Thursday Afternoon One of the challenges of a festival format is that not all time slots are equally...
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Jen Norris
Jun 13, 20223 min read
Review: Bianca Cabrera/Blind Tiger Society: Fever Dreams
Magical Monsters From the primordial world they grew, a low light revealing a mass pulsing to life. The swelling became a quartet of...
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