In Dance


Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over ...


Going Strong for 50 Years: Westwind International Folk Ensemble

For five decades, Westwind International Folk Ensemble has pursued its original dedication to the ...


SPEAK By Jessica Robinson Love

I more or less quit dancing five years ago. Like many of us, I came into arts administration as a ...


Dispersing the Diaspora: Excerpts from the CounterPULSE Blog

Edited by Maureen Walsh Traversing personal and cultural borders are two topics that the ...


ODC’s Kaleidoscope of Outreach

When I sat down to talk about outreach with ODC artistic director KT Nelson, school director Kimi ...


AXIS for Everyone

Here’s the number one reason I love AXIS Dance Company: it celebrates the individual. Yes me, you, ...


A Virtual Concept: Taking a New Look at Technology and Networking in Artist Residencies

CounterPULSE wanted to try something new with Performing Diaspora to better support work from ...


Notes From a Suitcase

MAY 2009 - In A Dance Studio In America During a recent rehearsal I rediscovered a recording of my ...


Secondary Scores in Improvisations: Opening up the Space with Improvisation as Performance

The Unspoken Scores in Improvisation as Performance In a dance form that requires a heightened ...


Director’s Note, Oct 2009

Dance and fashion, what comes to mind when you read those words? For me, specific images that inform ...