Reviews: ODC/Dance and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Strange new works by Jamar Roberts and Sidra Bell, one fascinating and one frustrating--my reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle

Apr 11, 2025

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It’s been a week for peculiar dances, and for continuing to puzzle through why one struck me as cryptic, the other utterly compelling.

First up on Tuesday was the Bay Area premiere of Jamar Roberts’s “Al-Andalusia Blues,” part of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s opening night at Cal Performances:

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