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New View
With fresh 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 the new […]
Dynamic Adaptability: Change Management, Design Thinking, Failure, Power and the Participatory Ghetto
However in museums working with artists, the assumption that no one should understand the artist is frowned upon and therefore a different attitude about how to build the engagement. With […]
Sauna Series
I work as an interdisciplinary movement-based artist. I shorten it to choreographer most of the time, depending upon where I am, who I’m talking to. Right now I am in […]
Dance Film Review: Teenagers Asked to Take on Pina Bausch
Dancing Dreams documents the collaborative journey between forty non-dancing teenagers and Pina Bausch as they set forth to re-stage Bausch’s 1978 work, Kontakthof. One of Bausch’s final projects before her […]
Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit: An Interview
While they’ve never collaborated to make a work together, Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit shared the stage as resident artists at CounterPULSE, currently work with Keith Hennessey, hold hands when […]
Next-Gen Interventions: What We Need To Perform
Contrary to common sentiment, ‘next-gen’ does not refer to ‘looking to the youngest person in the room.’ From our perspective, ‘next-gen’ refers to a combination of skills that are effective […]
Cycling Through: The 8th Annual SF Trolley Dances
Few dance events integrate more closely with the city’s pulsing arteries of public transit than San Francisco Trolley Dances. Now in its eighth year, the annual event presents dance and […]
Goode Space
People who are familiar with Joe Goode’s performances won’t be surprised when they hear his latest endeavor is about making theatrical experiences more intimate. What is unusual is his approach […]
Classic, Contemporary and Controversial: Previewing the Upcoming Bay Area Ballet Season
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a vibrant and diverse professional ballet scene: inventive choreography, groundbreaking collaborations, committed artistic staff and highly-skilled dancers. Companies here are able to […]
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 […]