2010 Highlight

I FEEL LIKE I’VE NEEDED TO BE REMINDED that work can be guttedly personal and really quite messy, and that the sheer truth and humility transmitted in that choice of […]

Ms, Fs, and As, Oh My! Life After Graduate School, The Transition Awaiting

ON JUNE 13, 2010 I graduated from The Ohio State University with an M.F.A. in Dance. I moved to San Francisco on June 18. This transition has been an education […]

SPEAK By Michelle Fletcher

I am writing you because I just quit my 9-5 job as a personal trainer. I started a dance company, Here Now Dance Collective. Knowing you and the pressure we […]

Welcome, Dec 2011

Looking back, looking forward. Sometimes it’s best to state the obvious: Like when a friend has a piece of spinach caught between his/her teeth. You need to tell them. You […]

Israel Gone Gaga: Batsheva to the Max

Float. Pull your bones. Smear your flesh on the ground. Connect to your pleasure. Quake. Stretch your face. Find the snake in your spine. Put a good taste in your […]

Travel to move: An Interview with Zenón Barrón

Viajar libera la mente. Traveling frees the mind. For Zenón Barrón, Founder and Artistic Director of Ensambles Ballet Folkórico de San Francisco, travel is a linchpin to creativity. “When I […]

Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

Is being at the right place at the right time a matter of fate, coincidence or luck? Looking back at my life in 1982, the year that Dancers’ Group was […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2012

The images above were taken at Dancers’ Group’s annual holiday party and those present are representative of our members, community partners, fiscally sponsored projects, board members and all of our […]

Getting in on the Act: Activating the Arts

What exactly do you mean by ‘participatory arts practices’?” a dancer recently asked me. A Confessional Tale We were on a rehearsal break and I was casually talking to a […]

Living and Moving in a Way that Grows: A Look at Sustainability

Shop locally. Eat regionally. These are two adages that get thrown around often in the culture that permeates the Bay Area. It is a hallmark of where we live, a […]