Articles by Nancy Berman

Nederlands Dans Theater: Not to be missed (but thanks to COVID-19, you’ll miss it)

March 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is world renowned for the virtuosity and versatility of their dancers, as well as their collaborations with the most illustrious [read on]

José Navas’s Winterreise: A Cautionary Tale for Valentine’s Day?

February 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Winter is long and hard. It sucks. Finding out that your significant other has ditched you for another and that you must leave your cozy home to wander, grieving and alone, [read on]

Radicale Vitalité: Marie Chouinard pushes the envelope, laughing all the way

January 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

In her latest work, Radicale Vitalité, Solos et Duos, Marie Chouinard walks a bunch of fine lines: pleasure vs. pain, laughter vs. tears, love vs. strife, sanity vs. [read on]

Dance From a Divided City: Elad Schechter, Rand Ziad Taha, and Hala Salem

October 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

From a divided city, a rare moment of collaboration between Muslim and Jew: Last night, Tangente Danse presented Premiere, a work choreographed by Elad Schechter and [read on]

She The People: The Patriarchy Isn’t Going to Smash Itself!!!

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Warning: partial spoiler alert! Are you sick of watching the news and feeling angry? Have you had it up to here with sexual politics? Are you female, male, or anything in [read on]

Jeremy Dutcher: the music of activism

July 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

By Artsandstuff1 - I took the photo at Jeremy's concertPreviously published: Christina Cassaro, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72720322

If you don’t already know Jeremy Dutcher, you should. A member of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, this classically trained singer, composer, musicologist, and [read on]

Alt-J: Revenge of the Nerds

July 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Critics love to hate Alt-J. They and their music have been called fussy and uptight; beige, tuneless, mild, featureless, and boring; lead singer Joe Newman has been compared [read on]

Dianne Reeves: Building Bridges, Not Walls

July 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

One of the world’s foremost jazz vocalists, five-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves and her phenomenal band knocked it out of the ballpark last night at the FIJM. Known for [read on]

Melody Gardot: sultry enchantress

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Dressed all in black, with her customary dark sunglasses, Melody Gardot ravished a sold-out Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the FIJM last night. Slow, sultry, soulful, smoky, and [read on]

The new soul on the block: Storry’s Leave My Heart Behind drops today and it’s f*cking fantastic

May 31, 2019 // 1 Comment

Storry—a creative powerhouse of a woman—unleashes her extraordinary voice and vision today with the release of her first single, Leave My Heart Behind. While channeling [read on]

Lisa Fischer and Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet: Propelled Hearts

May 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

With a voice to shake you to your very core, Lisa Fischer takes to the stage with a dozen dancers in Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet’s Canadian premiere of The Propelled [read on]

Kidd Pivot’s Revisor: a fun-house mirror for modern times

April 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

In 1836 the Russian author Nikolai Gogol wrote a play called The Revisor in which not only the corruption but also the profound lack of humanity of government bureaucracies [read on]

Rosas incarnate Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

January 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Nancy Berman reviews A Love Supreme by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis, presented by Danse Danse.

Tentacle Tribe tantalizes with Ghost

November 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

Photo © Alexandre Gilbert. Interprètes Victoria Mackenzie, Rahime Gay-Labbé, Marie-Reine Kabasha, Elon Höglund, Mecdy Jean-Pierre, Emmanuelle Lê Phan.

Tentacle Tribe is back with an expanded roster of dancers in Ghost, part of Danse Danse’s 2018-2019 season.

King of the Tabla and Other Gods of Music

July 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

The creation mythology of jazz tells of the transplantation and fusion of various musical cultures in the 18th and 19th centuries. The slave trade brought north-west African [read on]

Women Rock the Jazz Fest: Jann Arden, Martha Wainwright, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Davina and the Vagabonds

July 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

The opening weekend of the 39th edition of the FIJM featured some of the most inspiring women in the music world, including a new fun find. Friday night Jann Arden [read on]

Who knew monks could dance?

May 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

In Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Sutra, 19 Shaolin monks from an ancient temple near Dengfeng, China, perform hair-raising feats of martial prowess honed over a lifetime of [read on]

Legend Lin Dance Theatre’s Eternal Tides: the virtuosity of stillness

January 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

I have never seen anything like this. The stage is hung with long white translucent panels. Just in front of the stage, a candle burns on a sort of shrine. On each [read on]

Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal’s Dance Me: paging Leonard Cohen

December 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

With the one-year anniversary of his death one month past, Montreal’s craze for all things Leonard Cohen shows no sign of abating. There was the five-night Jenny Holzer [read on]

Danse Danse presents Hofesh Shecter’s Grand Finale: an absolute must see

November 2, 2017 // 2 Comments

Many years ago I met a young man from Tel Aviv. I asked him what it was like to live in a place where bombs regularly go off in night clubs, pizza parlors, and crowded [read on]

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