Dance Discourse Project #14

SMALL in the Bay Area In the ecology of any performance scene, different kinds of places play different roles. In the bay area there has been a vigorous history of […]

Community Engagement: An Interview with Julie Potter, Writer in Residence at ODC

For the artist Marcel Duchamp, “a work of art is a rendez-vous,” a time and space where artists and viewers come together. At times, a third party can be present, […]

Participating Artists

Amara Tabor-Smith is a San Francisco NATIVE. Born on Majestic Ave, raised on Castro St. She is a dancer because of ED MOCK who taught her about music, spirit, love, […]

Movement Exchange: Building a Model for Sustainable Dance Diplomacy

MOVEMENT EXCHANGE is a San Francisco based non-profit that organizes service-focused dance exchanges to Panama with the objective of using dance and dance education as a tool for creating sustainable […]

The Right Space For the Right Piece: Here Now Dance Collective to Perform at CounterPULSE

Consider the following scenario: You’re a dancer living in the Bay Area, and you have an impulse to choreograph. Whether making dances has always been an ambition or one day […]

September 2008

A Red Thread: Creating Dance Across Cultures and Politics By Kim Epifano Revealing the Process By Kitty Luce What’s a Live Film Festival?: And other fun questions like: Milkbar, a […]

June 2007

Dance History According to Drag By Selby Wynn Schwartz Signature Style: Eclectic Ethnic By Lily Kharrazi San Francisco Conservatory Takes on Forsythe By Emily Hite The Noodle Factory is Dead, […]

Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

30 THOUGHTS FOR 30 YEARS 1.    QUIETLY HIDDEN 2.    SECRET HALLS 3.    VIBRANT SCRAMBLES 4.    WINDOWS LIT 5.    PRACTICE STEPS REPEAT 6.    SECLUDED RISK 7.    WAYNE HAZZARD AND RAPTURE 8.   […]

How to Move to Berlin: a Dancer’s Survival Guide or 12-step Program or a Gentrification Manual Or… Can Moving Be Called Contemporary Dance?

Full Disclosure: This article doesn’t exactly know what form it wants to take yet. Similar to its author, this article holds a lot of new information from the past year […]

Collaboration as Beautiful Mystery: A Glimpse into Kim Epifano’s Botany’s Breath

Artistic collaboration is huge in today’s modern dance scene. And when something is so prevalent, there is a desire to categorize it; assign it a name and file it in […]