A Place to Explore: Mama Calizo

With its bright pink awning and front-door mosaic of CDs that sparkle like giant sequins, Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory (MCVF) is a bright spot in the South of Market district […]

Finding the Way: Kumu Hula Makuakane Choreographs the Story of Ancestral Navigation

When World Arts West executive director Julie Mushet approached Patrick Makuakane with the idea of commissioning a dance piece based on Hawaiian astronomy and Maui, the ancestral Polynesian navigator, the […]

Improvising the Change We Need

Dancers who improvise together are onto something. We muster every bit of social intelligence and multidisciplinary craft to invent new worlds. The Bay Area is rich with improvisational forms. Among […]

Review: San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest

A certain palpable energy was humming through the audience at the Palace of Fine Arts on Sunday, November 19th, where Micaya’s San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest played host all weekend […]

Speak: Still With Us by Debby Kajiyama, April 2014

Editors note: Debby Kajiyama is 2014 recipient of The Della Davidson Prize. This annual award has been set-up to honor the life and work of choreographer and teacher Della Davidson by supporting innovative […]

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT

THE FIRST TIME I WORKED with the teens of YBCA’s Young Artists at Work program (YAAW), I watched them navigate Keith Hennessey’s Turbulence: A Dance About the Economy after discussing […]

Welcome

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?” I offered this as a provocation for the writers in this issue and I am awestruck by the beauty, grace, humility, […]

Siddhi Creative: Two Folds

Two Folds includes the world premiere of two productions: The Mazeis a multidisciplinary devised work that blends movement, text, poetry, music, theater, and projection mapping technology to challenge conventional notions […]

From 500 Capp Street: Dancing with David Ireland

Editor’s Note: Performances at 500 Capp Street have been postponed until further notice. Updates will be posted here and on the DG Weekly e-bulletin once confirmed. Contact melissa@dancersgroup.org with any questions. THE HOUSE […]

In Practice: Mix’d Ingrdnts Performing Resistance

Early in the introduction to What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research, Ben Spatz writes, “Supposedly people join theatre and dance companies to perform in front […]