Notes From a Suitcase

MAY 2009 – In A Dance Studio In America During a recent rehearsal I rediscovered a recording of my young Ethiopian students singing. It transported me back to the village […]

Anchor Us: Making and not Making in the time of Covid

For two artists who are self-producing events for their local communities, the notion of having a practice that negated any kind of product appealed—at once sustainable and restorative.

Back and Forth

This year, in fertile Luna Dance Institute land, two new babies are born, bringing the total child count up to eight kids in an organization of eight full-time employees. In […]

Dance/USA Convenes in Philadelphia

“It’s a small world,” continues to ring in my ears with each connection I make in the dance field, as I often find a friend of a friend or colleague […]

CRITICAL DIALOGUES: Rachel Howard and Scott Marlowe

What if, rather than writing a review, a critic sat down with a choreographer to have a two-way conversation about the work? That’s the experiment behind Critical Dialogues. For this first installment, […]

Studies on Aging Performing Artists

The following is a reprinting of an executive summary written on an ongoing research project regarding aging artists in America, what the project has been finding, and where the research […]

Mission & History

Dancers’ Group promotes the visibility and viability of dance. We are the primary dance service organization of the San Francisco Bay Area, home to one of the largest and most […]

Welcome, Mar 2014

CAN WRITTEN DECLARATIONS adequately express dance? The response: depends on the writer and the reader. Words on a page might be more definitive than movement on stage, yet the former […]

Book Review: Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton

In Come home Charley Patton (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), choreographer, writer and visual artist Ralph Lemon journeys through personal and Civil Rights history like a migrant worker. Gleaning ancestral fruits—both […]

See What Happens

Together with multi-generational collaborators, I repossess moving artifacts, while generating dances arising from the emerging present.