In Dance


Words on Dance; The Lives Behind the Footlights

Few dancers of this generation so clearly embody the all-American ballerina as Tina LeBlanc, who ...


DOUBLE VISION; To Futurism and Back Again

If you dare visit our apartment in Oakland, CA you will undoubtedly have to watch your step. Inside ...


One Child’s Perspective on Dance, Creativity & Rigor

Lately, I’ve been interested in the rigor of creativity. Luna Kids Dance, as a composition-based ...


A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own, Mar 2007

The Beginning Imagine.... A World Wide Web with no blogs, no streaming video, no Google, hardly any ...


Dance IS Resilience; A Festival Director Reflects

Constant change is par for the course in the dance community –the idea of lost or outgrown space, ...


Pure Alchemy; A Roundtable Interview with the Artists of Kate Mitchell

I spoke with Kate Mitchell and her collaborating guest artists, Brittany Brown Ceres and Katie ...


Under The Radar; Discovering our Sameness

Special Feature: dance & disability The following articles examine questions of virtuosity and ...


Ways of Looking; Disability as Ability

Some years back, I reviewed a wonderful piece of devised movement that took themes from Puccini’s ...


Not Laughing, But Dancing

“You should be a dancer.” For years my best friend Linda (who is a dancer), had been saying this ...


Grace; Revisiting a Definition

The stage lies in the dark, empty and quiet. Baroque music sets in, and three female dancers enter, ...