DAM (dance.art.music) Events: DAMoakland

Performances. Vendors. Music. Food. Drinks. + more! Hosted by RJ KoolRaul & DCisChillin with Sounds by Stankpalmer, Ouiboogie + William Stokes Dance Artists include: Hell on Heels Culture Shock Oakland […]

A Letter to Our Multi-Marginalized Disabled Dancers

My beloved disabled dancers,

I am gazing at the shadows of trees dancing upon
gravel walls as the golden hour sun joins in.
It’s beautiful isn’t it?

KSP Studios Class Schedule

Join us at the newest spot in Oakland for dancing, KSP Studios! Here at KSP Studios, all of our instructors are people of color, offering classes in varying levels and […]

10 in 10 Video Series

10 questions in 10 minutes. Quick insights with the Bay Area dance community. As our community continues to re-imagine hybrid performance and dance-making, the 10 in 10 interview series speaks […]

The Grant You Wish You Could Write

Photo by Marley Trigg Stewart. [ID: Miguel Gutierrez looks softly into the camera while biting a rosary, bathed in orange light. He is a light skinned, Latinx cis-man with short […]

10 in 10 with Javier Stell-Fresquez

You are reading excerpts from Andréa Spearman’s recorded conversation with Javier Stell-Frésquez 10 in 10 theme music: Bright, upbeat pop music that you may hear in a teen-centered drama series. […]

BRIDGING THE GAPS: Challenges and Opportunities for US-China Cross-Cultural Exchange

WHEN I FIRST VISITED CHINA to perform in the Beijing Dance Festival in 2012, I arrived assuming that modern dance in China was a relatively new, underdeveloped phenomenon. I had no […]

Feminist Space in Dance: hers and hers asks questions with little seismic’s Katie Faulkner

Hey, We’re hers and hers. A new queer feminist dance collective in San Francisco We (Courtney King and myself) craft dance-theater with strong woman-identified performers, we write epic poems that […]

Thru Da Lenz Photography: Collaborative Photoshoot

Jose Jimenez is an emerging freelance photographer based in Sacramento specializing in creative photography and has a passion for helping people capture their inner creativity in a variety of art […]

Finding the Fog Beast

My hairdresser is obsessed with tracking Mountain Lion sightings in the Santa Cruz mountains. She follows locals on instagram who live along the lion’s territorial maps and also the online […]