What Does “Healthy” Mean? A Look at Dancers’ Body Types and Shifting Notions of Wellness

It wasn’t so long ago that university dance programs were affiliated with physical education departments, and some schools were slower than others in moving their dance students into the humanities. […]

In Practice: Stepping Back to Move Forward with Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero

Dancers’ Group · In Practice: Stepping Back to Move Forward with Hope Mohr, Cherie Hill, and Karla Quintero   If you prefer to read this piece, continue below. Beginning on […]

Dancing Lessons: How Engaging Dance Audiences Is Educating the Field

How many grants encourage you to come up with your own plan, experiment mid-stream with what works and what doesn’t, and engage in discussions with other grant recipients while in […]

Making public our private: exhaustion, gossip, and unfinished sentences

The first thing you should know about our friendship is that when we are together, we get off-topic immediately. We are excellent at tangents. So, when Bhumi emailed us, we […]

An Old Friend in a New Light: Reflections on Collaboration in Bharatanatyam

With roots in temple ritual and salons passed from generation to generation through the hereditary dance and music community of Tamil Nadu, in post-colonial India, the practice began to attract students and performers from various backgrounds around the world as a performing art.

When Dance Hits Music: Two choreographers and a string quartet creatively collide in “StringWreck”

“Charlie and I recognize that we might be inviting catastrophe in terms of trying new things with new people in new situations where there’s just very little known ground,” says […]

PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE GUNA OF PANAMA: Mark the Closing of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition

ON DECEMBER 4, 1915, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition closed its gates forever after 18 million people had visited the 635-acre World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Marina District. Many people consider […]

Dimensions Dance Theater: Four Decades Strong

The City of Oakland became a hot bed of cultural awareness and political and social activism for the African American community during the 1960’s and 1970’s. As a result, several […]

The Etcetera Preview: Upcoming Conferences & Festivals

Summer offerings for dance professionals don’t end with training intensives and seasonal performances. From the rigorous and scholarly to the imaginative and whimsical, conferences, symposiums and festivals serve as exciting […]

Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art […]