Dance Review: Half and Halves

Fresno Beehive
November 21, 2011

I experienced a remarkable evening of dance on Saturday, and my one regret is that there weren’t more audience members in the cavernous Roosevelt High School auditorium to share in it. The Duniya Dance and Drum Company and Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco joined together for a program titled “Half and Halves,” a dance exploration of the Punjabi-Mexican communities of California.

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Inspiration Everywhere

India Currents
November 14, 2008

“Joti Singh, the 29-year-old San Francisco-based dancer, blends her Punjabi roots with her passion for West African dance, but she doesn’t like to describe her work as a strict fusion of the two. Singh, the founder and choreographer of Duniya Dance Company, describes her festive, propulsive brand of dance as drawing more strongly from her training in bhangra.”

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‘Dhoom Dhamaka!’: Shock and awe in dance

San Francisco Chronicle
September 11, 2008

“Joti Singh’s works are usually celebratory and happy. She’s a student of Guinean dance and bhangra (a Punjab, India, harvest dance), and her pieces tend to be pretty upbeat.”

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Bollywood dance classes are hot!

Contra Costa Times
August 18, 2009
“SIMONE MARTICKE likes to show off her new hip-shaking and hand-twirling moves at Alberto’s Night Club in Mountain View.

Marticke has been taking Bollywood dancing classes for a few weeks at the YWCA in Berkeley, and when Alberto’s hosts an occasional Bollywood night, she has some steps to show her longtime Bollywood dancing friends”

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