Seventy-five and Wildly Alive: San Francisco Ballet Commissions Ten New Works

San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson could have chosen to make the company’s 75th anniversary an exercise in self-glorification and nostalgia. Instead, he’s taking a gamble on the future. […]

First Things First

Northwest Arkansas and Benton County roller derby leaguers at the Meet the Momentary festival in Bentonville, Arkansas Photo by Erika Chong Shuch First things first: how are you? Amid the […]

Cal Performances Deepens its Commitment to Dance

Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Flyaway Productions, ODC/Dance, Dorrance Dance – such an astounding collection of dance artists recently hosted at Cal Performances. And that was just during the […]

In The Know: Gaining Confidence with Arts Advocacy

As I sat in the back of an almost-full Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater for the SF Mayoral Arts Forum this past August, I felt a palpable […]

‘Conference of the Birds’ Brings Together Dance Forms in San Jose

The Conference of the Birds originally was a medieval Persian poem by ‘Attar (“The Pharmacist”)—who influenced the younger, more famous poet and Sufi mystic Rumi—an allegory about the birds of the […]

Edinburgh or Bust: Getting to the Fringe Festival

There are Fringe Festivals in almost every major city in the US (I’ve counted 16) and in many countries across the world. These theatrical extravaganzas celebrate unbridled creativity, uninhibited performance, […]

Team Rita

When I first got a call from Rita Felciano, she was working at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival office in Fort Mason Center and I was the editor at […]

given, found, finding, making, re-making, finding again

Photo by Hong Xu. [ID: A young Chinese father wears a long-sleeved collared shirt and tie, holding his baby daughter half-wrapped in a towel. He’s in the middle of exclaiming […]

SPEAK: Memory/Place

“Is it possible I think of my home in every thought, in every hour? I surrender myself. I dedicate to her these teardrops continually falling.” — From IIbn Hamdis’ ancient […]

ONSITE: Katie Faulkner

We Don’t Belong Here FREE Performances Union Square: Thu-Fri, Sept 29-30 and Sun, Oct 2, 2011 Yerba Buena Lane: Thu-Sun, Oct 6-9, 2011 All performances began at 8pm Do I […]