In Dance


Make Friends with the Janitor; And Other Tips for Working in Schools

For dance teaching artists who teach in school settings, this is usually a busy time of year. School ...


Total Eclipse of the Heart Review; Circo Zero at Theater Artaud

From the moment the cast of five stomps onto the stage in fuzzy, Where the Wild Things Are ...


SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance

Leaving a recent Fullbright grant meeting, encouraged by the advisor’s response to my project ...


What Exactly is Community-Based Dance?, Oct 2007

From dance classes with prisoners, to after-school programs, to participatory rituals and ...


Choreographing Change; An Interview with USF

Amie Dowling is currently a faculty member in the Performing Arts Department at the University of ...


Who Are We?

The creators of the Talking Dance Project, a new series of discussions co-hosted by CounterPULSE and ...


Dance In San Francisco; Observations and Attitudes

The following article was published in Movement Research Journal #31, Summer 2007, New York City. ...


A Fine Time on the F Line

Why should kids sit still when they watch dance? Instead of “trapping“ hundreds of local school ...


Dance for a Homeland

I don’t think anyone breathed during the last twenty minutes of Chimurenga, Zimbabwe-born Nora ...


You Can Go Home Again

The rebel is back. In the 1980s Karole Armitage was all spikes—spiky heels, spiky hair, spiky ...