Press
  • gendance - May 28, 2009
    Camille Suggs and Lindsay Hilscher: Two Ladies Expose the Up-To-The-Minute Veracity About Modern Dance

  • gendance - Feb 19, 2009
    Visual Artists, Composers And Dancers Come Together To Nurture Their Universal Dreams And Ambitions For A Multimedia
    Celebration On February 21st, 2009

  • Russian Bazaar - Article #2 (2007)
    Russian Article. Translation coming soon

  • Russian Bazaar - Article # 2 (2006) Russian Article. Translation coming soon

  • The New Yorker - Sept 25, 2005
    "Taro, a new evening-length piece about a woman doing battle with her inner demons, is anything but minimal."

  • Dance Magazine - Sep 21–24, 2006 If you were to follow Alice down the rabbit hole, you might come across scenes from Mariana Bekerman's Taro a haunting dream-turned-nightmare and back again

  • The Star Ledger - Aug 08, 2006 Mariana Bekerman's sustained and fluid lines wonderfully echoed the movement of the waves in the river...
  • Novoye Ryskoye Slovo - Jan 2006
    "Dance Is Simply An Illness" An interview with Mariana in New York's most popular Russian Newspaper. English Translation Included

  • The New York Times- Jan 31, 2005 Ms. Bekerman is a rare choreographer who uses - and knows how to use - dancers of all shapes and sizes. She also has visual imagination and a firm sense of craft...

  • Russian Article - Jun 30, 2003 "Novoye Ruskoye Slovo"
    English Translation
    "Spoiled Jewish Cream"

  • Forward May 30, 2003
    This piece is meant to promote a positive message,' the 27-year-old Bekerman told the Forward. 'There is a lot commonality among cultures -- we are not so different. We have different food, music, the way we dress and speak -- the outside parts of our cultures are very diverse. But when you come down to it, there is a lot of commonality, and that's what this work is all about.'

  • Queens Chronicle - May 29, 2003 ...While in the past her pieces have been quite conceptual--one took place in front of an aquatic pile driver--her most recent work is a departure toward the narrative. Titled 'A Goyish Affair With A Twist,' the semi-autobiographical work tells the story of a Russian Jewish-Latino wedding in NYC rife with family struggles and cultural humor
  • Flushing Times - May 31,2001
    "Boro Dance Troupe Weaves Philosophy"
    ...Bekerman was smitten by the dancing muse when she was only 4 years old. 'That's what usually happens in the arts.' she told Qguide. 'It's something you feel you have to do, and you feel it a very young age

  • "The Spirit Of Dance"
    ...The eclectic dance company melds the technicality of modern concert dance with freedoms of modern"

  • "Dance Company Fuses Vogue, Ballet And Spirituality"
    ...Bekerman created the unique dance style by delving into her schooled background in concert dance and her club days

  • Queensanvas
    "Dancing In Queen"s ... the free event, which is part of her long-term life plan to turn modern dance into a mainstream art form. 'I would like people to appreciate it without the usual gloom, doom and angst that can turn people off,' she says. 'I want to make dance a 'user friendly' art form that people from all walks of life can watch and enjoy

  • Russian Article
    English Translation
    "Dance to the Music of a Piledriver" "Mariana Bekerman gifts us her love and leaves hope. She gives us strength to prepare for old age"