The Experiment Called Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation defies any specific definition or historical analysis. The dancer most often credited for CI’s development is ambivalent about his role and some of CI’s early participants have divergent […]

Dancing Masculinity

This month Scott Wells and Dancers turns fifteen. Looking back on my first choreographic effort, I realize I’ve come full circle. The first dance I ever made was a duet […]

Speak: “musings (or perhaps just a list of questions) on the culture of rehearsal, creative process, dancer agency and score based practices”

As a movement-based artist, my work is sustained and perpetuated by the dynamic interchange which occurs between practices of noticing, investigating, and distilling. I’m an avid observer of the human […]

Vanessa Anspaugh: Coaching Project 2024

Join nationally renowned choreographer Vanessa Anspaugh in this unique workshop intensive. Anspaugh will work with performers in collaboration, creating a work which will be taken on a small Bay Area […]

Sha Sha Higby with Keith Evans: The Powdered Turtle

Sha Sha Higby’s metaphorically rich and intimate journey of elaborate multi-layered costume and projected micro puppetry is based on the symbolic plight of our skies and ourselves. Serene forests of […]

The U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network: Distant Thunders Heard

The 72 Seasons, or 72 候, are a traditional calendar of micro-seasons that encourage a deep appreciation for the subtle changes of the natural world and the cultural practices that […]

The U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network: Distant Thunders Heard

The 72 Seasons, or 72 候, are a traditional calendar of micro-seasons that encourage a deep appreciation for the subtle changes of the natural world and the cultural practices that […]

Observations Away From Home: On Being in Rome

Over the years, I’ve visited glorious churches, stayed in the hill towns and travelled the Appian Way, but these weeks in Rome are perhaps the first I have ever spent […]

What’s in a Conversation?

“We had an incredible Practitioner Exchange last night!” I tell my Luna colleagues, “I laughed, I even cried, we danced around, and the conversation just flowed.” I realize as I’m saying this, that I’m not fully describing the depth of the discussion, and that in fact, it sounds a bit trite.

Unpacking Julie Crothers’ Abstract Necessity

Imagine being seen and recognized one way during your adolescence by people in your hometown. You move away, then return with a new take on life, both for yourself and […]