Janice Berman
Janice Berman was an editor and senior writer at New York Newsday. She is a former editor in chief of Dance Magazine.
Articles by this Author
Dance REVIEW
May 3, 2013
San Francisco Ballet’s new Cinderella, which had its U.S. premiere Friday night with a cast headed by Maria Kochetkova in the title role, is magic.
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May 3, 2013
The Paul Taylor Dance Company chose a dry and difficult path to open its five-day San Francisco Performances engagement Wednesday.
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April 23, 2013
The return of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for its second engagement at Zellerbach Hall since Robert Battle took over the artistic directorship is, to judge from Tuesday’s opening, a rip-roaring audience success.
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April 19, 2013
Alonzo King Lines Ballet throws itself an elegant, if late, 30th-anniversary celebration, with a work in collaboration with virtuoso Edgar Meyer central to the occasion.
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April 17, 2013
The much-lauded choreographer Paul Taylor reflects on rites of spring on stage and in his own garden, as his company readies for a series of San Francisco performances.
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March 22, 2013
The presentation of neoclassical masters, the inspiration for Ballet San Jose’s performances, covered a lot of ground, and the artists rose brightly to the challenge.
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March 21, 2013
Onegin the evening-length extravaganza is back by popular demand at S.F. Ballet, with a prodigy of gorgeous dancing, stars to corps; an utterly gripping storyline, and a profoundly physical presentation.
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March 16, 2013
ODC Dance presents Program A, which tackles eternal life questions writ large with impressive dancing.
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March 15, 2013
In a last dance of sorts, eight dancers perform works by Trisha Brown; offering a demonstration of beauty so shocking, underlining how difficult it is to absorb that its creator is never going to make another dance.
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February 28, 2013
You can’t scotch S.F. Ballet’s vigor and its ever-venturesome choreography, whether old or young.
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February 26, 2013
Yuri Possokhov's Rite of Spring is extraordinary, demonstrating his mastery of the rhythms and impulses of the score, conducted and played with beauty and precision by Martin West and the S.F. Ballet Orchestra.
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February 22, 2013
In its centenary year, everyone will talk about The Rite of Spring as music. Maybe we should make time to talk about its more dangerous and electrifying aspect — the dancing.
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February 14, 2013
Nijinsky full-length spectacular, with its explosive, searing essence is clearly one of the closest ballets to Director John Neumeier’s heart.
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January 30, 2013
A dazzling trio of works shows off the San Francisco Ballet in top form. A new Wayne McGregor ballet stuns and amazes.
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January 26, 2013
The welcome return visit of the Joffrey Ballet to Berkeley features a mixed bill, both moving and wondrous, and beautifully danced.
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January 25, 2013
Nevabawarldapece, a new, live dance-and-music-and-spoken-word extravaganza choreographed by Robert Moses, is fitfully brilliant, yet at times hard to read.
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Critics' Picks
January 26 - 27
Artistic Director Ashley Wheater leads the venerable Chicago-based Joffrey Ballet into Zellerbach Hall Jan. 26-27 with Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain, Edward Liang’s Age of Innocence and Kurt Jooss’ antiwar classic, The Green Table.
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December 7, 2012
In the S.F. Ballet's opening night of the Nutcracker, a beautiful stage was set, and standout dancers delighted the crowd with this seasonal classic.
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December 7, 2012
A new ballet born at Ballet San Jose includes a little playlet within the ballet that is sometimes a headscratcher, but nevertheless delivers the magic that audiences flock to the Nutcracker for.
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October 19, 2012
Alonzo King's new evening-length work Constellation takes his Lines Dance Company ballerinas off-pointe and away from the naturalistic environment of last year’s stunning Resin.
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