Kathy Mata Ballet: Bay Area Dance Week 2023

Kathy Mata Ballet company members and guests will perform dances ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, in a variety of solos, duets, character dance and more–plus live musical accompaniment on […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Bay Area Dance Week 2023

Kathy Mata Ballet company members and guests will perform dances ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, in a variety of solos, duets, character dance and more–plus live musical accompaniment on […]

Crowdsourcing: Is it healthy?

CROWDSOURCING DANCE EMPOWERS the audience to collectively perform the roles of, at times, curator, programmer, and even funder, potentially stoking tension between arts professionals and the public. Defined by business […]

Bring Your Best Social Self to #DanceUSAconf

This year you will not get a folder filled with schedules, bios, and panel descriptions. Instead, organizers chose the eco-friendly option and made a mobile app that will contain your […]

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 […]

Dance Film Comes of Age

A look at the marriage of dance and film. Stephanie Linakis explores this artistic shift, who it interests, and which events in the upcoming year will highlight the use of this medium.

For Current Projects

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 […]

Beyond Gravity

Two evenings of radical, intersectional, body-based online performances and films. Featuring eight emerging Bay Area artists, asking us to find our center of Gravity through survival, hope, lineage, resistance, or […]

Making Love With The Land

MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND PERFORMANCE is a series of online performances inspired by Joshua Whitehead’s forthcoming book Making Love With the Land in which LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists explore […]