SELECT REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Review | Jen Norris Dance Reviews | September 16, 2023
Review: Bellwether Dance Project "Aurora Sad Magic"
“The room is abuzz on opening night of Bellwether Dance Project’s 2nd Season at the ODC Theater. There is much to anticipate with two premieres followed by the revival of Foley’s Let the Witches Slip (2019) on the program. Bellwether’s Artistic Director and Choreographer Amy Foley constructs dances that draw us in, intrigue and move us. ”
Preview | Datebook | September 14, 2023
‘Witches’ to cast a spell alongside Bellwether’s premieres
“When Amy Foley’s Bellwether Dance Project debuted in 2019, it hit the scene with a bang. On the program was Foley’s “Let Slip the Witches,” a chilling quintet with original music by Ben Juodvalkis that reclaims the power of the witch archetype and casts a rhythmic and visual spell. ”
Preview | Datebook | September 6, 2023
Bay Area dance in fall 2023
“If you saw Amy Foley dance during her career with Robert Moses’ Kin, you’d never forget her; small and sharp, fierce and fast, she’s one of the all-time great San Francisco dancers.”
Review | Life As A Modern Dancer | April 19, 2019
Amy Foley’s Let Slip the Witches is Flat-out Transcendent
“It was convincing. It was haunting… While it was clear that forces were acting upon and inside these characters, it was also clear that they had authority over themselves. So much potency came from their ability to endure and transcend, not just the insanely physical (dance) feat before us, but also millennia of labor, public shaming, and bludgeoning that they conjured up. ”
Preview | Datebook | March 21, 2019
Foley’s Bellwether launches with three premieres at SF’s ODC Theater
“Amy Foley makes dances from a feminist point of view, interpreting the lives and experiences of women and girls through her abstract and conceptual modern dance.”
Television Interview | CBS News Bay Area | April 6, 2019
Don't Miss The Bellwether Project's Let Slip The Witches
Amy Foley, founder of The Bellwether Project talks about her latest project, a series of dance performances titled Let Slip the Witches at ODC in San Francisco.
Radio Interview | KPFA | April 1, 2019
Amy Foley on making feminist dance
“Amy Foley, founder of Bellwether Dance Project and one of the latest feminist choreographers on the Bay Area scene, talks about what it means to make feminist dance, challenging a tradition that imposes narrow constraints on the bodies and lives of women dancers.”
Photo by Stephen Texeira
Article | In Dance Magazine | March 20, 2019
SPEAK: Risk and Triumph: Bellwether Dance Project’s Let Slip the Witches
“I want to tell you about a show. A show I’ve had in my dreams for years. It is a show that is full of heart and a little drama and lots of kick-ass dancing and a bit of hell raising too.”
Photo by Stephen Texeira
Article | ODC Dance Stories | September 22, 2017
Keeping Mothers at the Creative Table
“SEAM, an initiative launched by Bay Area dance makers and mothers, attest to the spirit of shared resources and support that can be nurtured in the Bay Area. Formed last spring by choreographers, dancers and mothers Tanya Bello, Kristen Daley, Amy Foley and Yayoi Kambara, SEAM is a platform that aims at helping artists continue to present their creative work when they become mothers.”
Interview | Dance Commentary by Heather Desaulniers | June 21, 2017
Amy Foley's Bellwether Dance Project - SPF10
While not a linear story, Thighs and Wages has a powerful narrative and conceptual foundation. ‘The piece considers and alludes to the ways that women are scrutinized and objectified; how turning someone into an object lessens their humanness,’ Foley shares, ‘and without suggesting any answer or resolution, it challenges the viewer to contemplate the ramifications and outcomes of this objectification – abuse, violence or training women in self-doubt.’”
Photo by Don Albonico
Review | KQED | July 12, 2017
Dancers Perform with Politics on their Sleeves at the Feisty SPF 10
“Foley has created a timeless artifact of abstract dance that exudes pure joy while defying the objectification of women... A fusillade of stomping, rolling and kicking wound down into a tender image of mutual protection as the dancers piled on top of each other, their faces alertly turned to the audience.”
Header photo of Amy Foley by Lynne Fried.