Legends Walk Among Us: A reflection on the cycles we dance, generation after generation

I recently met Ellen Webb when a colleague informed me that she owned a dance studio for rent insanely close to my West Oakland home.

FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival, Weekend 2

DISCO RIOT & FACT/SF co-present PORT: SF/SD PORT: SF/SD is a shared evening of premieres by contemporary dance companies FACT/SF (San Francisco) and DISCO RIOT (San Diego). These performances mark […]

FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival, Weekend 2

DISCO RIOT & FACT/SF co-present PORT: SF/SD PORT: SF/SD is a shared evening of premieres by contemporary dance companies FACT/SF (San Francisco) and DISCO RIOT (San Diego). These performances mark […]

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 […]

Welcome

Recently, I’ve been obsessed with home. The obsession runs deep through my veins. In thinking about why I’ve come to this, I think about temporarily living in a new place […]

FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival, Weekend 2

DISCO RIOT & FACT/SF co-present PORT: SF/SD PORT: SF/SD is a shared evening of premieres by contemporary dance companies FACT/SF (San Francisco) and DISCO RIOT (San Diego). These performances mark […]

Black Ballerinas in Picture Books: Rupturing the Color Line in American Children’s Literature

As a Black girlhood studies scholar, I pay close attention to picture books that portray Black girls. More specifically, I intersect dance studies and children’s literary studies in order to explore the representation of Black ballerinas in autobiographical and biographical children’s picture books.

Welcome

Flourish has become a favorite word. You can use flourish to describe style, a mindset, prosperity, and accomplishment. Depending on how you think of flourishing, paradoxical thoughts might get mixed in. […]

Parangal Dance Company on the Road to Padayon

While experiencing Parangal Dance Company’s enchanting and powerful world premiere performance of Kiyaprawa a ko Arkat Lawanen (The Abduction of Princess Lawanen) during the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival at […]

Witness and Archive

  There, don’t nobody question you sittin’ between another woman’s legs when she plaitin’ your hair. There, she ain’t gotta be “My cousin. My roommate. My soror.” She can be […]