Emerging in a Space of Resilience

*Event location moved indoors. San Francisco International Arts Festival will present a combination live in-person and livestream program that culminates in a two-day outdoor program to take place at the […]

RAW: ArcTangent Dance

ArcTangent Dance is a professional dance company based in Silicon Valley that strives to challenge the conventional wisdoms of dance. They aim to create work that not only facilitates empathy […]

to remain empty at all times, an effervescent palimpsest (or love letter) for the heart

Estrellx Supernova Photo by Williams College Photography Club. [ID: Estrellx is laying naked, face down, spiritually surrendering their body along the riverbank of The Green River in Williamstown, MA. The […]

Nina Haft & Company: The Spaces Between

The art of art-making goes through many unique processes: prompts, inspiration, feedback, collaboration, frustration, improvisation. One constant in this process is play – the notions of experimentation, risk, and curiosity. […]

Questioning Contact Improvisation

Photo by Robbie Sweeny INTRODUCTION For more than 15 years I’ve been working to understand and to explain how the social contexts of contact improvisation (CI) remain predominantly white and […]

Watch Out for the Big Grrrls

Most of my life I told myself I was too fat to have short hair.

Dance Discourse Project #12

Shifting Ground: Examining the complex terrain at the intersection of dance and aging Aging is an unavoidable part of life, and its effects on the body pose issues for body-based […]

Bringing Dance to Teens: an Inquiry

Remember what it felt like to dance when you were 11, 12, and 13 years old? Remember feeling awkward in parts of your bodyβ€”or perhaps your whole body? If you […]

San Francisco Dance Film Festival: Bay Area Showcase

Bay Area artists explore dance on camera with nine films from new filmmakers and veterans alike. From digitally generated dancers to a diverse array of live humans, see individual voices […]

Laugh and the World Smiles: c(h)ord premieres at YBCA

Humor is perhaps is the most unrecognized aspect in Shinichi Iova-Koga’s existential explorations of human oddities. Ame to Ame‘s immaculately timed encounters between Iova-Koga and long-time partner Yuko Kasekiβ€”and three […]