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 adventure began when I moved myself and my dance company, Pythia, […]

The Silent E: 29 Effeminate Gestures, 24 Years Later

Joe Goode’s 29 Effeminate Gestures was first performed in 1987, by Joe Goode himself; it was literally a self-proclamation. It began with a muttered statement, repeated more and more emphatically, […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2012

The images above were taken at Dancers’ Group’s annual holiday party and those present are representative of our members, community partners, fiscally sponsored projects, board members and all of our […]

Making Video Make Sense

Jessica Robinson focuses on the merging of film and live performance and how this movement affects the futures of these art forms.

Speak: Ode to Della

EDITOR’S NOTE: Deborah Slater is the 2015 recipient of The Della Davidson Prize. This annual award has been set up to honor the life and work of choreographer and teacher […]

Sanctuary Spaces: FRESH Festival Artists Violeta Luna and Roberto Varea Plan Empathy and Disruption Across Borders

FRESH Festival. Photo by Robbie Sweeny. “We were thinking about a number of other things,” says Roberto Varea when I ask him about what he and collaborator Violeta Luna have planned […]

Anabella Lenzu: Dance Film Screening and Conversation

Fri, Mar 18,  5pm PT, 7pm CT 8pm ET Celebrate the 15th anniversary of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama in a dance film evening IN-PERSON and ONLINE! The evening will highlight four award-winning […]

For You, For All of Us

The recent production of For You at the Marin Headlands was intended to be a break from self-absorbed, opaque art. Conceived by interdisciplinary performance maker Erika Chong Shuch, the April […]

History in the Taping: Confessions of an Accidental Dance Videographer

As I was preparing to write this article about dance documentation, it occurred to me that it has been exactly ten years since Shelley Trott and I started the interviews […]

Varnam Salon 3.0 – Bharatanatyam Studio Showings

Varnam Salon 3.0 features online performances and conversations by Mythili Prakash, Ganesh Vasudeva, Navya Maitri Konda, and Vibha Raju. Feb 26 – Ganesh Vasudeva and Navya Maitri Konda Feb 27 […]