Aging

I didn’t start my professional dance training until I was almost 20. Since I had been a good party dancer and athlete all through school, I thought I would be […]

Acting The Part: A Process in Learning a New Motivation for Dance

This past winter I was required to degenerate into a screaming fit onstage. As part of Christine Cali’s Move Thru Me, a contemporary dance piece fusing dance, live music, and […]

Accessibly Special: A New Program is Packing Performance into Summer

There is work bursting from the seams of the Bay Area right now–it is impossible to ignore. CounterPULSE presents a small cross section of this work as part of our […]

ODC, Fabulous at 40

To celebrate ODC’s 40 years of dance-making and community building, we’ve asked founder and artistic director, Brenda Way, and co-artistic directors, KT Nelson and Kimi Okada, to share their thoughts […]

Tax Tips for Artists

Home in Office If you book your gigs from home and/or rehearse there, you may take the portion of your apartment that is used exclusively and year round for that […]

The First Steps: Luna Dance Institute

Dance teacher, Bonner Odell is on maternity leave. With the birth of her daughter, the count is five teacher-mothers (out of seven) at Luna. As our small organization juggles busy […]

Teaching Honestly, Teaching Fearlessly: Two Decades of Luna

About halfway to this 20th landmark of Luna Dance Institute, I was asked to speak on a panel about careers in dance. During the Q&A, my mentor and teacher, June […]

June 2008

Behind the Curtains: Everything you need to know about making it into the Ethnic Dance Festival By Miriam Phillips New Visions in Korean Dance: Kyoungil Ong and Hearan Chung create […]

Restage, Revisit, Reinvent: Four Choreographers Discuss Restaging Work

A choreographer supplies the vision for a work, but the dancers give it an identity. So when a choreographer restages a work on a different company, on entirely different bodies, […]

Inspirations and Obsessions: A Conversation with Dancers’ Group’s New Program Director

Dancers’ Group has a long history of working with dance artists to oversee and develop the organization’s programs and services. Simply, over the years, the many dance artists we have […]