In Dance


A Journey into Chaos: Creating Healing in Homeless Shelters

My work with the homeless didn’t start out as a brave act. It started as a necessary act. The ...


Of Collaboration: Two Perspectives: One Performance; Part 1

I first started collaborating with composer Bill Wolter in 2005, attempting to get out of the ...


Of Collaboration: Two Perspectives: One Performance; Part 2

I find collaboration the best way to get my work done. Without a deadline and performance to work ...


Around, Over, Through – Together

Summer was almost half over when I finally paused to take stock. Last school year was filled with ...


Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at 35: Translations Over Time

Choreographer Margaret Jenkins premieres her evening-length work Other Suns (A Trilogy) at the ...


Inside, From a Distance

Margy—one of Margaret Jenkins’ many monikers—always considered her dancers collaborators, and ...


Anna’s Postmodern Children

Sitting in Yerba Buena’s theater last March, I was mystified by the ecstatic reaction French ...


SPEAK By Kathleen Hermesdorf

“This is the beginning of the future” I thought, as I awoke this past January 1. 2009 is the ...


Uplift Quotient: Flyaway Builds a Bridge, July/ Aug 2009

“One thing that happened,” Jo Kreiter says, “was that I had a child, and so I spent many ...


FLY-LINES: A Brief History of Aerial Dance

Off-the-ground dance comes loaded with its own peculiar history, beginning with the acrobatic and ...