SPEAK: Two Artists’ Reflection on A Poet’s Love

with José Joaquín García “… the angry, bitter dreams, let us now bury them… throw [them] in the sea… I will also put my love and my suffering into it.” […]

HOMEBODY: Movement Meets Buddha Nature

PICTURE A BUDDHIST. What comes to mind? A red-robed monk or nun sitting patiently on a cushion, lips gently smiling, eyes closed, legs crossed in Lotus Pose? Or perhaps you […]

Did You Know? DEXANDRO “D” MONTALVO

DANCE THEATRE OF SAN FRANCISCO launched two years ago by Executive Director, Annie Henry, to cultivate innovative programs that inspire and educate its community with its developing repertoire of contemporary […]

Dance Discourse Project #21

Dreaming The Future Landscape Thu, Jan 14, 7:30pm Center for New Music, SF FREE DDP and the FRESH Festival joined forces to ask expansively, poetically and pragmatically: what can a […]

SPEAK: Performing Science: Dancing by Numbers

A couple of years ago I was attending the bi-annual german Dance Congress in Berlin. At the end of a presentation by Alva Noë, a UC Berkeley, Philosophy of Perception […]

Finding Tap in the Bay Area

THE NOVEMBER 2015 In Dance article, Finding Flamenco by Heather DeSaulniers, inspired me to focus my own research on a unique dance form, therefore I have pulled together a variety […]

New View: Sean Bennett

Tell us about your artistic practice and/or background. I’m a corps de ballet dancer with SF Ballet and I began studying ballet at the age of eight here, through the […]

Did You Know? Kathy Mata Ballet

For the past 28 years, Kathy Mata Ballet (KMB) has been providing free dance performances to San Francisco seniors and others through partnerships with local community organizations. Dancers’ Group asked […]

Becoming Super-Flamenca: Carola Zertuche Guides Theatre Flamenco Into its 50th Year

The ink on the lease to the newly acquired studio in San Francisco’s Mission District was barely dry when I sat to talk with artistic director Carola Zertuche’s about her guidance […]

NEW VIEW: Jiten Daiko

Taiko is a broad term for Japanese percussion, but here in the U.S., the word tends to refer to a form of highly physical drumming performance. While largely a musical […]