Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change

Dancing Care In April 2021, right after weโ€™d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator.ย  We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]

Marketing Your Art 101: Creating Dances and Creating Audiences

FIRST LET ME START WITH A DISCLAIMER: Some of the ideas I broach in the next few paragraphs are practices that have not actually been implemented by our organization. Marketing […]

Understanding Your Health Insurance Options

From the first hints of reforms to the nationโ€™s health care system several years ago to the opening of the โ€œstatewide exchangesโ€ this past October, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) […]

Welcome

โ€œLife is fragile, handle with care.โ€ So declared the tagline of a Dow Chemical safety campaign when I was growing up. Dad worked there as a safety engineer.ย ย 

given, found, finding, making, re-making, finding again

Photo by Hong Xu. [ID: A young Chinese father wears a long-sleeved collared shirt and tie, holding his baby daughter half-wrapped in a towel. He’s in the middle of exclaiming […]

Health Care Volunteers Work to Keep You Dancing

Are you aware that there is a Healthy Dancersโ€™ Clinic (HDC) at ODC Dance Commons for the Dance community? The clinic is open to all ages, disciplines of dance and […]

Decolonizing Industries of Care: Nursing These Wounds

In California, one out of every five registered nurses (RN) is of Pilipinx descent.[1] These nurses are also disproportionately represented on the front lines: bedside as well as in intensive care units, emergency rooms, nursing homes and long-term care.

Bear/Skin: A Review

ALTHOUGH KEITH HENNESSY’Sย Bear/Skin, presented at the Omni Commons January 30th and 31st, is a solo piece, the ideas it negotiates are meant to resonate on a community scale. Bear/Skin sits […]

Speak: Place for Family in Dance

My work is greatly inspired and impacted by my family. Three years ago, my parents immigrated to the US from Japan to live with me and to continue pursuing their […]

Stories in the Moment: Creating shared spaces of belonging for and with people living with dementia

All screenshots captured by Magda Kaczmarska [ID: Eight images show Magda, a person with short brown hair in a white turtleneck and blue track pants and Bob and Barb, two […]