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” […]

95 WORDS FOR ANNA HALPRIN

Editor’s Note: As a way to further contribute to the 95 Rituals project that offers a variety of opportunities to pay tribute to the work of Anna Halprin, In Dance […]

Corporate Giving 101

Ah, stalking the elusive corporate donor! Back in the good ol’ fundraising days (the mid-80’s, in case you’re wondering), oil companies, banks, department stores, you-name-it, every corporation in America seemed […]

3 Seconds of Beauty: The New Wave of Bay Area Dance Film

“I was only going to make one film in my whole life,” says Carmen Rozenstraten, “because I had this image—this vision—that came into my head, and I knew it could […]

A Summer in San Francisco

By Lauren Warnecke I’m totally in love with San Francisco…and other thoughts from a Chicagoan at Dance/USA: With thirty years under its belt, Dance/USA has an influential take on central […]

Director’s Note, Oct 2009

Dance and fashion, what comes to mind when you read those words? For me, specific images that inform our movement-based, clothed libidos. What we put on our bodies is, at […]

Secondary Scores in Improvisations: Opening up the Space with Improvisation as Performance

The Unspoken Scores in Improvisation as Performance In a dance form that requires a heightened sense of patience, self motivation, confidence, risk taking, and willingness to fail (as well as […]

Dance and Flower: dNaga’s peace about life: Dancing with Parkinson’s

We dancers demand an impossibly high degree of control—over our muscles, our bones, our emotions. We strive to defy powers greater than ourselves (gravity, for starters) and to outwit random […]

The Ties That Bind: Eight Years of CHIME

Eight years ago, Margaret Jenkins founded CHIME, Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange, based on the belief that open communication between choreographers of different generations is important, that artists should be compensated […]

The First Steps: Luna Dance Institute

Dance teacher, Bonner Odell is on maternity leave. With the birth of her daughter, the count is five teacher-mothers (out of seven) at Luna. As our small organization juggles busy […]