Jill Togawaโ€™s Dreams and Driveways

On July 28 Jill Togawa, Director of Purple Moon Dance Company, and I held a conversation in my Berkeley home regarding her upcoming site specific performance work, When Dreams Are […]

Around, Over, Through โ€“ Together

Summer was almost half over when I finally paused to take stock. Last school year was filled with challenges, opportunities, and success for me as a dance educator, yet I […]

Uplift Quotient: Flyaway Builds a Bridge, July/ Aug 2009

โ€œOne thing that happened,โ€ Jo Kreiter says, โ€œwas that I had a child, and so I spent many months just sitting in a yellow rocking chair.โ€ This hardly sounds like […]

Driving the Ethnic Dance Festival: Behind the Scenes with Julie Mushet

At the Fort Mason Center, located in the windy northern part of San Francisco, I sat down with Executive Director Julie Mushet in the World Arts West (WAW) office. Accompanying […]

Cut Back and Move Forward: San Francisco International Arts Festival 2009

Itโ€™s been a tough few months for the San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF). Always an invaluable contributor to the landscape of Bay Area arts, the SFIAF has presented the […]

Please Respond: RSVP Cycles in the Work of Anna and Lawrence Halprin

Ann and Lawrence Halprin have been married for over 68 years, and this pair of artists have spent just as long working together. An event this month at the Stern […]

Outer Space to Inner Space: Universal Themes, Very Different Styles

Amara Tabor-Smith/Deep Waters Dance Theater shares a bill with Cathie Caraker and Katarina Eriksson from March 5-7 at CounterPULSE. Upon first reading the descriptions and approaches taken by the artists, […]

Leave a Message, Iโ€™m on Vacation

To describe my relationship with dance as โ€œlove-hateโ€ would be a gross understatement. In the years since I first spun barefoot across the rec-center multi-purpose room at Olinder Elementary, Iโ€™ve […]

Demystifying the Art of Presenting

As a presenter for nearly 30 years now, the question I get asked by artists, more than any other, is, โ€œHow do I get my work presented?โ€ Sometimes itโ€™s directed […]

Dance, If You Think You Can

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not a journalist, but when given the opportunity to interview the judges of the popular television program, So You Think You Can Dance, I did not […]