Laveau

The 14th Episode of House/Full of BlackWomen: New Chitlin Circuitry: Reparations Vaudeville Excerpts from Laveau by Britt Frazier, Directed by Margo Hall with ritual offering by Portsha Jefferson and Rara […]

Y-Exchange Co-Presented by Kinetech Arts, ODC and Djerassi

Y-Exchange is a monthly series of presentations about performing arts, technology, science and how they intersect and inform one another. This event is open to the public and admission is free. […]

Welcome

Looking Back with Love Dancers’ Group has been home. For thirty-five years I’ve worked on and off, mostly on, for this art-full organization. Learning on the job has always been […]

Finding the Fog Beast

My hairdresser is obsessed with tracking Mountain Lion sightings in the Santa Cruz mountains. She follows locals on instagram who live along the lion’s territorial maps and also the online […]

Requesting Liability Insurance

In Practice: Book Review: Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora by Joanna Dee Das

The first time I met dance historian Joanna Dee Das was either at an event she curated when she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance Studies at Stanford or […]

Welcome

Bodies are perfect. They are also complex, colorful and filled with tons of cool applications. Each body is the ultimate super computer, efficiently organizing 37.2 trillion cells that are in […]

Find Time and Space with Residency Programs

Inspiration pours from your graceful fingertips and toes. If only you had time and space to explore the depths of your imagination freely, validating what you already know to be […]

On Traditional Ohlone Land: Dancing Earth at Alcatraz

“As contemporary people we’re taking the responsibility to create the songs and dances that speak to our time now…and creating intertribal and global indigenous relationships, and creating new languages of […]

Approaching a Quarter Century at Smuin

“How does it feel to be on the cusp of Smuin’s 24th season?” This was the first question I posed to Artistic Director Celia Fushille during a recent conversation about […]