In Practice: Stephan Koplowitz on Making Site Work

When I was living in Naples, Italy, I produced a dance series called Site-Specific at Rising South, a cavernous bar in the city’s historic center. I was able to call […]

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]

New Book: Site Dance

Review by Kegan Marling SITE DANCE: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces Edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik Site-specific dance has a long and complex history, and I’ve […]

One Website under California with Profiles and Resources for all, May 2008

Starting this May, every dance group in California from the San Francisco Ballet to the local community center hip hop group will have access to a powerful new tool for […]

Family in Site

Panching Photo by Jessica Swanson. [ID: Panching, an elder Filipina, is in profile to the camera. She looks out a window of an historic house at Fort Barry with a […]

A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own, Mar 2007

An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination.

Black Ballerinas in Picture Books: Rupturing the Color Line in American Children’s Literature

As a Black girlhood studies scholar, I pay close attention to picture books that portray Black girls. More specifically, I intersect dance studies and children’s literary studies in order to explore the representation of Black ballerinas in autobiographical and biographical children’s picture books.

Ten Tips On How to Engage with Parents in Parent-Child Classes

I’ve been teaching dance for a while. My resumé says something like confidently creates developmentally-appropriate dance curricula for ages 0-adult. But I’ve got to say that my confidence was challenged when I started leading […]

ONSITE: AXIS Dance Company

Occupy A site-specific journey through an urban garden Choreographed by renowned site artist Stephan Koplowitz With an original score by Pamela Z AXIS Dance Company, Dancers’ Group and Yerba Buena […]

Notes from an Invited Spy: My RSVP to 95 Rituals

“…How am I even going to write about this emerging, unfolding thing?…” I wrote this after my first day observing theater and dance company inkBoat in rehearsal for 95 Rituals, […]