Making public our private: exhaustion, gossip, and unfinished sentences

The first thing you should know about our friendship is that when we are together, we get off-topic immediately. We are excellent at tangents. So, when Bhumi emailed us, we […]

Ten Tips for Individual Appeal Letters

At some point in our careers as artists we come face-to-face with fundraising for our creative projects. This can be thrilling and exhilarating—serving as a rite-of-passage into the next phase […]

In Practice: Dancing Around Race with Gerald Casel

On September 20 of this year, approximately fifty Bay Area dance folks gathered for a Long Table discussion at Humanist Hall in Oakland as part of Hope Mohr Dance’s Bridge […]

Seeing Dance, Talking Dance in Washington, DC

With its flag-bedecked entrances, huge lobbies and wings that you get lost in, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC speaks of an era now gone, an America self-confident and imperialistic. […]

Fain Opens the Flood Gates

In Dance talks with Liss Fain on Vermeer, Opera, and her upcoming film collaboration at YBCA

Sanctuary Spaces: FRESH Festival Artists Violeta Luna and Roberto Varea Plan Empathy and Disruption Across Borders

FRESH Festival. Photo by Robbie Sweeny. “We were thinking about a number of other things,” says Roberto Varea when I ask him about what he and collaborator Violeta Luna have planned […]

The Silent E: 29 Effeminate Gestures, 24 Years Later

Joe Goode’s 29 Effeminate Gestures was first performed in 1987, by Joe Goode himself; it was literally a self-proclamation. It began with a muttered statement, repeated more and more emphatically, […]

Five Tips for Getting Your Money Shit Together: Or, Lessons From a Middle-Aged, Middle Class Dance Artist

1  JUST SAY NO As artists, we need to stop asking people to work for free, and we need to stop working for free. And we all need to say “no” […]

Riding the Panel Process

The panel-based selection process frequently used by arts funders, residency programs and award committees has always felt on par with how dodge ball teams were picked in PE class—elitist, superficial […]

Fundraising for Individual Artists 101

There is possibly nothing more baffling to an individual artist than fundraising. Production, no problem. PR, okay, got it. Fundraising — huh? The reason for this confusion is pretty obvious: […]