Luna Dance & Creativity: Learning & Teaching II – Crafting

This weeklong intensive is for Luna Summer Institute and DIDC-A alums to deepen their understanding of engineering dance lessons and units for maximum creativity and student autonomy. Course content includes […]

Just Out of Reach: The Art of the Company History, Mar 2008

Capturing dance, if not purely impossible, is at least like hunting butterflies: a fragile art, with many beautiful frustrations. Once you pin it down, its motion has been stilled, and […]

Total Eclipse of the Heart Review; Circo Zero at Theater Artaud

From the moment the cast of five stomps onto the stage in fuzzy, Where the Wild Things Are overcoats, until the last, sliding body descends from its rope, Sol Niger, […]

25 Years of the Izzies

In 25 years of recognizing Bay Area dance, members of the Izzies committee have collectively seen more than 10,000 performances, contributed countless volunteer hours and even announced the awards at […]

10 People on 10 Years of Dance Generators in San Francisco

Dance Generators was founded in Massachusetts in 1997 by Amie Dowling, a former member of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. In 2006, Dowling relocated to San Francisco, and in 2007 […]

ONSITE: AXIS Dance Company

Occupy A site-specific journey through an urban garden Choreographed by renowned site artist Stephan Koplowitz With an original score by Pamela Z AXIS Dance Company, Dancers’ Group and Yerba Buena […]

SPEAK: Memory/Place

“Is it possible I think of my home in every thought, in every hour? I surrender myself. I dedicate to her these teardrops continually falling.” — From IIbn Hamdis’ ancient […]

BLESSED UNREST: A Festival of Possibilities at the Intersection of Social Justice and Performance

IN A TIME of spiraling inequality, discontent and violence, the sometimes vapory subject of art’s relation to social justice takes on a cold, sober, even urgent aspect. As in the […]

Artist Residencies as Homes for Community-building and Risk-taking

IN THE RECENTLY-RELEASED documentary about Yvonne Rainer called Feelings are Facts, one statement reveals a key element in the artistic explorations of the 1960s: Steve Paxton says that he had […]

The Experiment Called Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation defies any specific definition or historical analysis. The dancer most often credited for CI’s development is ambivalent about his role and some of CI’s early participants have divergent […]