SPEAK: Beyond Stage Space

When I think of a typical performance experience, I imagine one of the intimate theaters tucked in unlikely locations all over the Bay Area; of being huddled backstage, getting dressed […]

2010 Highlight

As an emerging professional dancer, choreographer, performer, I seek out ways to develop my artistry, broaden my perspective on process/performance, and connect with communities in creative fields. My most memorable […]

Pedagogical Frontiers in Technique: A Fresh Look at Old Ideas

Technique is a means of arriving at a statement. β€” Jackson Pollock WHAT IS A TECHNIQUE CLASS? Or, more importantly, how, do I teach a technique class? Modern technique. Ballet. […]

FAQs: Dancers’ Group Fiscal Sponsorship Program

What is fiscal sponsorship and why is it needed? Individual dance artists and new dance organizations need funding (donations, grants) to support their work. Often they are hindered by the […]

SPEAK: Performing Science: Dancing by Numbers

A couple of years ago I was attending the bi-annual german Dance Congress in Berlin. At the end of a presentation by Alva NoΓ«, a UC Berkeley, Philosophy of Perception […]

A Legacy of Innovation Within Tradition: Talking About Creating New Work with Celine Schein and Rachna Nivas

I am in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco visiting the administrative offices of the Chitresh Das Dance Company (CDDC) and Chhandam School of Kathak, founded by dancer, choreographer and […]

Choreographer in the Classroom: At the Intersection of Dance and Academic Curriculum

It’s Tuesday afternoon at Monument Mountain Regional High School in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Much of the snow from the weekend storm has melted. There is a weak […]

Research

Space Alliance Report: Bay Area Artist Space Needs in 2021 | June 2021 In 2018, Dancers’ Group, Intersection for the Arts, and Theatre Bay Area formed a working group to […]

December 2012

Welcome By Wayne Hazzard Chris Black’s Multigenerational Edition of the Rotunda Dance Series By Julie Potter Jack Carpenter: a Master of Illumination by Mary Ellen Hunt Mary Sano and the […]

Welcome, Sep 2012

It has been a busy summer. It started with me waking up one morning with a sharp pain in my lower right abdomen that became appendicitis and within a few […]