ONSITE: Patrick Makuakane

Hit and Run Hula Taking San Francisco by storm in a hula ambush. August 15, 2009 Various Hot Spots in San Francisco Hit and Run Hula Dozens of hula dancers hit […]

SPEAK By Samantha Giron

The truth is, I never felt quite at home as a modern dancer. I always had the sense I was trying to make myself move like someone else – someone […]

Welcome, Sep 2012

It has been a busy summer. It started with me waking up one morning with a sharp pain in my lower right abdomen that became appendicitis and within a few […]

June 2007

Dance History According to Drag By Selby Wynn Schwartz Signature Style: Eclectic Ethnic By Lily Kharrazi San Francisco Conservatory Takes on Forsythe By Emily Hite The Noodle Factory is Dead, […]

September 2007

Outside Looking In; The ESP Project Explores Separation and Incarceration in 51802 By Nina Sazevich: Preview of ESP Project’s upcoming dance-theater performance around the emotional implications of having a loved […]

May 2011

Welcome By Wayne Hazzard The Growing Season: Continuing Classes for Educators By Patricia Reedy The Etcetera Preview: Upcoming Conferences & Festivals By Julie Potter A Breath Of Fresh Air: Emerging […]

The Choreography of Chinese Urban Spaces: A Book Review and Interview with Author, SanSan Kwan

I feel a pulsing and paradoxical sense of expanse and suppression as passersby move towards and immediately away. Every so often I am forced to veer as a meandering person […]

He Moved Swiftly…

“Do you dance for the dead or with the dead?” This is the choreographer’s and the conjurer’s dilemma. What we know from watching Amara Tabor-Smith is that the answer comes […]

New Book: Site Dance

Review by Kegan Marling SITE DANCE: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces Edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik Site-specific dance has a long and complex history, and I’ve […]

First You Must Observe

Shortly after WWII, educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy came together determined to ensure that fascism would never again occur in their country. Hope for the future would lie in the […]