Searching for the Right Mix; WestWave Dance Festival 2007

A staple of the Bay Areaโ€™s summer dance scene for 16 years, the WestWave Dance Festival (WWDF) is preparing for its 2007 season at Project Artaud Theater. Once again, the […]

My Year in the Show Ring

Editorโ€™s Note: Having danced with Chicago Moving Company, Winnipegโ€™s Contemporary Dancers, and Theatre of the Open Eye in New York, John R. Killacky has played several roles in the Bay […]

Conversations with Anna Halprin

Photo by Rick Chapman As surely everyone must know by now, Anna Halprin turns 100 on July 13, 2020. Just as her work has celebrated the dancer in every body, […]

Looking Back to Move Forward: A Continued Conversation with Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen

PART TWO OF A TWO-PART ARTICLE IN THE OCTOBER 2013 ISSUE OF IN DANCE Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen announced that come January 2014 KUNST-STOFF Dance Company (KSDC) will no […]

Keeping and Creating Arts Space with CAST

For me, it begins with DANCE. And it’s dance, performance, and teaching that expanded my lens of the arts, my commitment to it, and passion for it.Rooted in the spiritual, […]

Stretching Across the Urban Jungle: ONSITE Presents Katie Faulknerโ€™s We Donโ€™t Belong Here

On the heels of an ambitious four-choreographer collaboration with Kara Davis, Manuelito Biag, and Alex Ketley, Katie Faulkner is not only stretching herself as an artist, but is now literally […]

New View: Christy Bolingbroke

With fresh young faces popping up constantly, the local Bay Area dance community is a unique blend of seasoned and new perspectives. In Dance caught the new view from New […]

The Draw(back) of Awarding Achievement

Contributor note: Unattributed quotes were shared with me anonymously as research for this piece. Around this time every year we are inundated with being told what the โ€œbestโ€ of the […]

In Practice: Holding Wait with Jo Kreiter

On a rainy afternoon in March, I met with Jo Kreiter, choreographer, artist-activist, and artistic director of Flyaway Productions, in a rehearsal space at Project Artaud, behind the Joe Goode […]

A Banana Peel is Good for Headaches: Observations from the Traditional Arts Field

Between dinner and dessert one evening, Doba G., a medical doctor in her late seventies who emigrated from the Ukraine to San Francisco in 1993, gave me a tip: Lily: […]