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 […]

Afro Urban Society: Uniting the African Diaspora through Dance

The question ‘Where are you from?’ can mean different things depending on where you are in the world. For Nkeiruka Oruche, the Artistic Director and founder of Afro Urban Society, […]

SPEAK: RECKONING: A decade of FRESH Festival and 20 years of ALTERNATIVA

Reckoning with time. There is something thrilling about a new year, a fresh start, the beginning of another cycle around the sun. There is also the reckoning it invites, to […]

Gabriel Mata On Using Personal Narrative

Photo by Tom Hassing The current immigration policy has sparked debate and protest throughout the country. For Mexican American dance choreographer Gabriel Mata dance is a form of protest. He […]

SPEAK: Discovering the Power and Ability to Take Action

Photo by John Carnahan I am deeply immersed in contact improvisation and site-specific dance—exploring the possibilities/capabilities of my body in relationship to other bodies and in relationship to space/architecture. I […]

In Practice: Photographer Pak Han

little seismic dance company, photo by Pak Han My father is a photographer, and growing up, whenever I was minding my own business, doing my homework or vaccinating my stuffed […]

Welcome

I hope you’re well, and I hope you’re safe. For most of 2020 these daily words were written in emails, texts and in posts on social. They do bear repeating: […]

Black Women Genius, Black Women Magic, Black Women Power

I want to do “A House Full of Black Women!” —Amara Tabor-Smith

These were the words that came falling out of Amara’s mouth, sweet and easy, like fat golden corn falls ripe and juicy off a late-summer cobb. It was mere hours after the soul-stirring finish of

Dance Discourse Project #8

Dance in Pop Culture: How do YouTube and “So You Think You Can Dance” both help and hinder? Dance Discourse Project #8 delved into the popping of contemporary dance – […]