SPEAK By Jessica Robinson Love

I more or less quit dancing five years ago. Like many of us, I came into arts administration as a dancer needing to pay the bills. But after a few […]

The People’s Palace

Conceived and Directed by Joanna Haigood San Francisco City Hall May 9, 10, and 12, 2024   View the Digital Program The People’s Palace was a 3-day artistic intervention with […]

Welcome, Jul/Aug 2013

As the seduction of summer activities—vacations, barbecues, beach walks—linger, I remind myself how essential it is to have another activity to celebrate my successes. Not a boastful task, but one […]

SPEAK: RECKONING: A decade of FRESH Festival and 20 years of ALTERNATIVA

Reckoning with time. There is something thrilling about a new year, a fresh start, the beginning of another cycle around the sun. There is also the reckoning it invites, to […]

A Turning Point, Part II – Rebirth

“In Mexico they say when someone you love dies, a part of you dies with them. But they forget to mention that a part of them is born in you- […]

Welcome, March 2013

In 1975 I walked into a studio in Cupertino, California to take my first dance class, a tap class taught by Pam East, and I immediately felt at home. Amidst […]

Five Solos: Views of the Primal Body

For Sara Shelton Mann’s The Eye of Horus, five performers come together to perform solos that have been developed over the past several years and will now be placed outside and under […]

Piñata Breakthrough: A Conversation with Liz Boubion

For the last several years, choreographer and somatic movement therapist Liz Boubion has collaborated with a variety of artists from different genres, to deconstruct piñata rituals in theaters, galleries and […]

Reinventing Emily: A Choreographer

With my company, Danse Lumière (formerly Anima Mundi), a small-scale dance-theater group, I delve into large themed projects that lead me into deeper engagement with the subjects: I create unique […]

ONSITE: Amara Tabor-Smith

He Moved Swiftly But Gently Down the Not Too Crowded Street: Ed Mock and Other True Tales in a City That Once Was… June 15, 21, 22 & 23, 2013 […]