In Dance


Bay Area Community Colleges: Great Teaching, Great Value

In the nine Bay Area counties, there are at least 17 colleges (the difficulty in counting comes from ...


A Breath and a Hum, and a Move Like Mango: An Interview with Deaf Dancer & Choreographer Antoine Hunter

Transcribing my interview with Deaf dancer, choreographer and teacher Antoine Hunter, I am acutely ...


Teaching in a Wild Triangle

In my position as Director of Teaching and Learning at Luna Dance Institute, I am often ...


WCCIJAM 2013: Talking Bay Area Contact Improvisation, Past Present & Future

Every year for over 25 years, about 200 dancers come together sometime around the 4th of July, in ...


With Their Own Special Flair: Five Mexican Folklórico Companies Perform New Traditional Work

The challenge for writing thoughtfully about the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is that it’s ...


He Moved Swiftly…

“Do you dance for the dead or with the dead?” This is the choreographer’s and the conjurer’s ...


Welcome, Jun 2013

When does a project begin? Over two years ago, I met with Amara Tabor-Smith to ask if she were ...


Zeitgeist or Twincidence?

Working on a dance theater project about twins over the past two years I’ve noticed a twinflux of ...


The Choreography of Chinese Urban Spaces: A Book Review and Interview with Author, SanSan Kwan

I feel a pulsing and paradoxical sense of expanse and suppression as passersby move towards and ...


The Right Space For the Right Piece: Here Now Dance Collective to Perform at CounterPULSE

Consider the following scenario: You’re a dancer living in the Bay Area, and you have an impulse ...