13th Annual: Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance!

Aย Juneteenth Celebration! Join Grown Women Dance Collective as they continue to celebrate the newly-minted federal holiday of Juneteenth with movement classes, panels, and a grand concert performance. ALL VIRTUAL! ALL […]

Sean Dorsey Dance 2022 Home Season

Sneak-peek excerpts-in-progress of SDDโ€™s new work โ€œThe Lost Art Of Dreamingโ€ **Sunday performances will have ASL interpretation. Donโ€™t miss Sean Dorsey Danceโ€™s first live, in-person performance in over TWO YEARS! […]

Embracing the Past and Guiding Tomorrow

Halau o Keikiali’i performs Friday, March 4, at 12 noon in San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda as part of the free Rotunda Dance Series, presented by Dancers’ Group and World […]

Keep the Reels Rolling; Why the Bay Area Should Fight to Keep Dance/Screen

San Francisco Performances has pulled the plug on its Dance/Screen series of film and video presentations, curated for the last 9 years by Charlotte Shoemaker. โ€œIt was a matter of […]

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 […]

In Conversation with Vanessa Sanchez

Whoโ€™s getting funded and who has access to getting funded? And really looking at a lot of my mentors in the Bay Area and beyond who…have changed and shaped communities and done this work for decades and decades and decades, but because of resources and because of language barriers, they arenโ€™t necessarily able to apply and receive the funding they should be. With that, I just felt it really important in that I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones from the Bay Area โ€“ in our kind of world of dancers of color who are coming from dance forms from traditionally Black and brown communities โ€“ I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones getting this. There are so many more people who need and deserve this โ€“ this funding.

Kathak and Flamenco Traditions Explored

Renowned Kathak Master Pandit Chitresh Das is not new to collaborations. His partnership with tap virtuoso, Jason Samuels Smith, has been touring continuously since 2005 to critical acclaim across the […]

In Practice: Photographer Pak Han

little seismic dance company, photo by Pak Han My father is a photographer, and growing up, whenever I was minding my own business, doing my homework or vaccinating my stuffed […]

In Practice: Reconstructing Reconstruction with Chris Evans

What does it mean to grieve in the context of perpetual marginalization and terrorization? What are the contours of grief in the afterlife of ancestral, epigenetic, and intergenerational trauma? And […]

Book Review: Defining Radical Bodies

When someone says โ€œradical change,โ€ I wonder which definition they are using for โ€œradical.โ€ The word can refer to an approach that comes from outliers, one that challenges existing views, […]