New View

With fresh faces popping up constantly, the local Bay Area dance community is a unique blend of seasoned and new perspectives. In Dance caught the new view from the new […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2012

The images above were taken at Dancers’ Group’s annual holiday party and those present are representative of our members, community partners, fiscally sponsored projects, board members and all of our […]

Welcome, October 2014

WHILE IT SEEMS UNDENIABLE that a plethora of dance takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area, when I speak to funders, or politicians, or friends, or recent transplants, or even other […]

Bigger, Better, Faster, More: Audience Development Tools for the 21st Century

THERE’S A REVOLUTION BREWING in audience development, that amorphous and all-encompassing term that describes the tools we use to lure and keep patrons in our seats. A slew of new […]

A ROVING ELEGY: The Anastasio Project

At the Eastside Arts Alliance’s rehearsal of The Anastasio Project, a multidisciplinary mobile public performance, young people are engaged in improvisational work that will eventually be a public offering. “Raw” is too […]

Welcome, Mar 2012

Taking care of our bodies is probably one of the most important parts of being a dancer and yet, this seemingly simple and incredibly important task of maintaining our body-based-instrument–that […]

A Lasting Impression: The Artistry and Teaching Genius of Koob

Twenty-one years ago I met Koob–the name he is known by in the dance community–at a rehearsal with Six Thumbs Dance Theater at City College of San Francisco. Many things […]

A Summer in San Francisco

By Lauren Warnecke I’m totally in love with San Francisco…and other thoughts from a Chicagoan at Dance/USA: With thirty years under its belt, Dance/USA has an influential take on central […]

Speak: Danica Sena, April 2014

Editors note: Danica Sena is the recipient of the 2014 Dancers Choice Award and she will be acknowledged at a free public event on Friday, April 25 at 12noon during the kick off for Bay […]

On Choreographic Thinking

“Dance is not a way of depicting, but a way of thinking”1 —Tere O’Connor I recently took a dance composition workshop with New York artist Jeanine Durning that really made […]