Eavesdropping on a Chat Between Rosanna Gamson and Niloufar Talebi about Layla Means Night

THIS FALL, I will be ringleading the ten performances of Layla Means Night premiering at ODC Theater (October 30-November 3, 2013). Layla is a re-imagining of Director/Choreographer/Auteur Rosanna Gamson’s earlier […]

SPEAK By Denise Leto

I have recently been collaborating on a multi-genre performance piece entitled Your Body is Not a Shark, which involves dance, music, poetry and sound collage with the choreographer Cid Pearlman, […]

The Right Space For the Right Piece: Here Now Dance Collective to Perform at CounterPULSE

Consider the following scenario: You’re a dancer living in the Bay Area, and you have an impulse to choreograph. Whether making dances has always been an ambition or one day […]

January/February 2010

Welcome By Wayne Hazzard Brown and Rauschenberg: Forays into Collaboration By Trisha Brown and John R. Killacky in conversation Uncovered: The Diary Project: Sean Dorsey’s Fifth Home Season By Heidi […]

March 2007

A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own By Kitty Luce: An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination. Dance IS […]

Welcome, Sep 2013

Often, Opulent Opportunities co-mingle with high/low art and do-it-yourself sensibilities, mixing cultures and movements—figurative and literal—that collide and complicate the total truth of the occasion. At some future time, the […]

NAMING NAMES: the Significance of Sources in Modern Dance Technique

Lineage Modern/contemporary dance is experiential and its practitioners have a penchant for fusion, integration, assemblages and communal intent. Modern/contemporary dance is also known for being an open-minded forum in which […]

In Conversation with Dance Monks’ Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty: Examining Natural Environments Through Interdisciplinary Performance

Water is essential. It sustains; it cleanses; it feeds; it restores. It makes all life possible. In recent months, these realities have hit particularly close to home as we have faced and […]

SPEAK by Dohee Lee

Inner Travel with Myth and Past Lives, History and Stories, Dreams and Future. I am looking at the ocean from the far West Pacific out to my homeland Jeju Island, South […]

Welcome, September 2014

While tackling domestic responsibilities, I multi-task, listening on the radio to music, news, game shows, and the wonderful tales presented on programs like This American Life. A few weeks ago, while paying […]