In Dance


Hit and Run Hula: Nä Lei Hulu dancers set to shake up San Francisco

A family of four strolls along Pier 39 licking ice cream cones and listening to the sea lions bark. ...


More than grass skirts…

More than grass skirts, tiki torches, and tan girls shaking their hips, hula is a culture and way of ...


Proust Questionnaire

A sexy and creative force in the hula world, Patrick Makuakäne might be best known for his ...


Getting it Out There: Smart Mobs, Improv Everywhere and Engaging Dance Audiences

A few weeks ago, a good friend told me I needed to check out a YouTube video she had come ...


Toward and Away: Strengthening Family Bonds Through Creative Dance

At a community resource center in Berkeley, a young child and her mother are dancing together, ...


SF Conservatory’s New SoMa Studios: An Expanded Vision for Ballet Education

Summer Lee Rhatigan has just opened a ballet school without mirrors. They teach Gaga. It’s like ...


The Soundscape of Market Street: San Francisco’s Street Tappers

The percussive sounds we hear as we walk down San Francisco’s Market Street become part of our ...


Keeping On Keeping On

This speech was delivered on June 3, 2009 at the Opening Plenary of Dance/USA’s annual conference ...


The Crisis in Criticism: The Economy, the Internet and the Death of Dance Writing, Jun 2009

If you are reading this, odds are you earn at least part of your living working in the arts, or are ...


Dance Scholars and Critics Convene in the Bay Area

For four days this June, the Bay Area will become the center of the dance studies universe. The two ...