Articles by Nancy Berman

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]

Marie Chouinard’s Garden of Earthly Delights: The Ecstasy of Creation

September 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

When was the last time you took a good look at Hieronymous Bosch’s early 16th-century painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights?” I mean, really looked at it, at all the [read on]

Michael Kaeshammer and Lisa Simone Double Bill at the FIJM

July 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

I admit that curiosity got the better of me: I wanted to see Lisa Simone not because I knew her music or anything about her, but rather because she is the great Nina [read on]

Joss Stone and Melissa Etheridge Double Bill at the FIJM: Age Before Beauty

July 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

In the middle of her concert at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier Wednesday night, English soul wunderkind Joss Stone told the packed audience a story her mother had just told her: [read on]

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