Nancy Karp is a well-known choreographer who has been making work in San Francisco for the over two decades. Her San Francisco based company, Nancy Karp + Dancers was found in 1980. Karp has created over 70 dance works for her company. Together with her dancers, they have toured throughout the United States and abroad, including Germany, India, and Japan. She has also received numerous grants and awards for her work: Bay Area Dance Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to India in 1995, and many more.
Her two hours dance pieces were performed in San Francisco ODC Theatre recently, from 4th-13th of November, which was titled "25th Anniversary Retrospective Season". The performance was divided into six pieces, including "Jumping Phase (1978)", "Arashi/Storm (1992)", "Jaisalmer (2000)", Trio Set (2005)", "The Night's Mascara (2005), and "Il Mercato (2001)". The theme for the whole performance is rather abstract; from my point of view, all......
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