Photos by Bonnie Kamin

The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company premiered Light Moves on November 3 - 5, 2011at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to packed houses and enthusiastic crowds. Here are some selected reactions from the press and audience members.

 "It's hard for performing artists to think big these days and actually pull it off…That's what makes it all the more impressive that year after year, Margaret Jenkins consistently generates works of ideas and scale like Light Moves.... [An] often meditative, kaleidoscopic mix of human and digital…. [The] dancers seamlessly transfer the vectors of their steps, lifts and falls organically from one partner to another, creating an ever-unfolding fabric of movement."-- Mary Ellen Hunt, San Francisco Chronicle

"Kremer imposes strong visual rhythms and cadences on what she does; her art dances even on a flat canvass." -- Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"[Jenkins] enchants … this evening-length work celebrates the best of today's modern dance scene. Jenkins' approach to interdisciplinary performance was and is a sight to behold." --Heather Desaulniers, Dance Commentary

"…an expansive exploration of the images conjured and the emotions and sensations stirred, by the interplay of light and shadow at the different hours of the day." -- Jean Schiffman, Arts Monthly

"[Jenkins'] work is timeless, and has integrity. [The] dancers specialize in the combination of movements that create a breathtaking and beautiful whole that's greater than the sum of the parts -- where the audience finds itself unable to look away from the unfolding of the shared gestures, meetings, and partings.  … another triumph of the mature Margaret Jenkins." -- Meredith Watts, Attorney