Moving Arts is Moving Up: New Space in the East Bay

A drive through the industrial parks on Whitman Road in Concord looks, frankly, unpromising. But dance has a way of making a home in the unlikeliest of places, and out […]

Behind the Curtains: Everything you need to know about making it into the Ethnic Dance Festival, June 2008

Light jingles from brass bells of Indian dancers merge into the clank of the Philippine’s bamboo sticks, which provide the undertone to bellowing calls of the Congolese drums that resonate […]

Welcome, June 2010

Certain smells elicit a flood of memories and summer seems to hold an inordinate share of these olfactory remembrances. Heat is most likely a contributing factor and this month I […]

The Soundscape of Market Street: San Francisco’s Street Tappers

The percussive sounds we hear as we walk down San Francisco’s Market Street become part of our city’s daily soundtrack. The chugging of the trains, the rumbling of trolleys, the […]

Deborah Slater Dance Theater Celebrates 20 Years

Eight dancers move through in an imaginary house, a dream space of empty rooms and corridors. Deborah Slater’s voice enters their reverie, encouraging them to abandon the notion that they […]

SPEAK By Jose Navarrete

In 2007 I went to India, and on that journey I experienced everything from horror to beauty: magnificent palaces and temples contrasting with the utmost human misery. Throughout it all, […]

Poem for Dancers in Hard Times

Move. Because clouds pour over the mountains in the morning and sea currents draw them back at noon.   Move. Because leopard sharks whip the waters all around as you […]

In Their Way: Ten Years of the Women on the Way Festival

In 1999, Mary Alice Fry became frustrated while running an arts space in SOMA called Venue 9. For several years she had been producing local women artists in a series […]

Queer Collisions: Personal Interrogations of Life and Performance

I think I’m queer, but I hesitate to think so. Here are some known facts about my queerness: How I might be queer 1. I’ve been curated into a queer […]

Editor’s Note, Dec 2009

I am a creature of habit. I love having a structured routine, knowing what to expect and seeing the next step before I take it. But it’s the deviations and […]