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ODC/San Francisco - 'Flight to Ixcan': The Personal and Political Converge
By Toba Singer -- February 20 , 2004, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Kimi Okada, in collaboration with Claudia Bernardi, come as close as may be possible to redressing and redeeming catastrophic loss through a work of art.
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Sara Shelton Mann -- ' Monk at the Met: Feast of Souls'
By Karen Hildebrand -- June 21, 2001, ODC Theater, San Francisco
It's probably no coincidence that Sara Shelton Mann's Monk at the Met: Feast of Souls opened on the night of the summer solstice, the same day as a full eclipse of the sun. Mann's work has often explored the spiritual realm.
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West Wave Dance Festival -- Amy Seiwert's im'ij-re
By Katie Rosenfeld -- July 22, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco
If Amy Seiwert harbored any secret fear that the all-Seiwert night at this year’s West Wave Dance Festival would play to an empty house, it was alleviated more than an hour before curtain Sunday night. By the time she arrived, all smiles in a summery dress, at Project Artaud Theater, the show was completely sold out, leaving some mainstays of the Bay Area dance family begging for tickets.
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West Wave Dance Festival -- Amy Seiwert's im'ij-re
By Anne Berger -- July 22, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco

West Wave Dance Festival -- Amy Seiwert's im'ij-re
By Mary Ellen Hunt -- July 22, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco

West Wave Dance Festival -- Amy Seiwert's im'ij-re
By S. Olive McKeon -- July 22, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco

West Wave Dance Festival - 2005 Program 2
By by Becca Hirschman -- July 14, 2005, ODC Theater, San Francisco
The West Wave Dance Festival has returned to San Francisco for its 14th season...Program 2 included three world premieres and two additional works. Definitely a standout, John Kloss’ toe-tapping “Measured Response” combined crisp sounds with varied rhythms.
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Robert Moses' Kin - 'Woman Spelled This Way'
By Toba Singer -- February 9, 2007, Kanbar Hall, San Francisco
A question comes to mind as I leave this evening’s performance, and persists all the way to the keyboard as I sit down to write my review, “Aren’t there some comparisons that deserve to be made between the work of George Balanchine and Robert Moses?”
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West Wave Dance Festival -- Uni-Form: Ballet
By Anne Berger -- July 26, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco
Viktor Kabaniaev’s writhing and mysterious “Fragments of…” and Christian Burns’ multimedia “Beneath Your Sheltering Hand” opened Westwave Dance Festival’s “Uni-Form: Ballet” series Thursday night at Project Artaud Theater.
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West Wave Dance Festival -- Uni-Form: Ballet
By Katie Rosenfeld -- July 26, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco

West Wave Dance Festival -- Uni-Form: Ballet
By S. Olive McKeon -- July 26, 2007, Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco

Summerfest/dance: West Wave Dance Festival --2004 Program 2
By Rebecca Hirschman -- July 23, 2004, ODC Theater, San Francisco
Diverse choreography-wise, presenting performance art, live music, and interesting and creative movements well. But the one aspect that disappointed me was the lack of ethnic diversity.
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