From Stage to Screen; Bromberg Forges New Directions, July/ Aug 2007

An interview with the University of Utah’s Assistant Professor of Modern Dance on her focus career and the upcoming Dancers’ Group International Dance Film Screening in SF.

What Exactly is Community-Based Dance?, Oct 2007

From dance classes with prisoners, to after-school programs, to participatory rituals and multi-generational performance projects, Community-based dance can take a wide variety of forms. Here I explore the roots of […]

To the Rhythm of Another World; A Glimpse of India through the eyes of Margaret Jenkins, May 2007

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company traveled to Kolkata, India in January 2007 to perform A Slipping Glimpse, an evening length work created in collaboration with the Tanusree Shankar Dance Company, which […]

Dance IS Resilience; A Festival Director Reflects

History and future of the Dance IS festival

Under The Radar; Discovering our Sameness

A reflection on the questions around virtuosity and difference explored in Jess Curtis/Gravity’s “Under the Radar”.

The CONCEPT Series; Caffeine, Cake and Concert Dance

What if going to a dance concert were more like going to the movies? You could sit back and relax, eat and drink and, get to see all the action […]

Hearan Chung’s Eternal Dance: Review: February 23, 2008

I first met Hearan Chung six years ago. The dancer, recently arrived from South Korea, was living with her two children in an apartment in Millbrae, and I drove down […]

Training With Intention

My key years of modern dance training in the 90s as an undergraduate came at the time of the highly athletic dancer. Lois Greenfield’s images of Pilobolus dancers with 6-pack […]

Curtain Up on ODC

After 27 straight years housing some of San Francisco’s most memorable dance performances, ODC Theater will be going black at the end of this year. The theater, whose programming needs […]

The Wave of Things to Come

When the Republicans swept into power in the early 1980s they brought with them a fanatical commitment to business. Everything fit under the imperial umbrella of the marketplace, and everything […]