January/February 2008

Deep Roots, Many Branches: Black Choreographers Festival By Lily Kharrazi Seventy-five and Wildly Alive: San Francisco Ballet Commissions Ten New Works By Rachel Howard History in the Taping: Confessions of […]

FACT/SF’s New Commissioning Program JuMP: Balancing Breadth and Depth

OFTEN WHEN THERE ISN’T an ideal opportunity at hand, you have to create one for yourself. In that vein, FACT/SF founder and Artistic Director Charles Slender has recently created a […]

Dance History According to Drag, Jun 2007

“A dancer’s life is a realist’s life,” says the woman onstage in a weary, regal voice. Standing in a dramatically pooled spotlight that glitters off her spangled dress and causes […]

July/August 2010

Welcome By Wayne Hazzard Riding the Panel Process By Kegan Marling Not Your Typical Tap: The Bay Area Tap Festival By Lou Fancher Abhinaya Anniversary: Abhinaya Dance Company of San […]

SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance

Leaving a recent Fullbright grant meeting, encouraged by the advisor’s response to my project idea, her parting words hit like bricks: “you just have to follow your dream.” I’ve been […]

Dance Discourse Project #1

Bay Area Dance: Who Are We Now? Mary Armentrout spoke with Keith Hennessy, Jez Kuono`ono Lee, Laura Elaine Ellis, and paige starling sorvillo. In this first installment of a ongoing […]

Keep the Reels Rolling; Why the Bay Area Should Fight to Keep Dance/Screen

San Francisco Performances has pulled the plug on its Dance/Screen series of film and video presentations, curated for the last 9 years by Charlotte Shoemaker. “It was a matter of […]

Funny, You Don’t Look Dancerish

The following article is the third in our series on body image and dance, and originally appeared in the New York Times’ Arts and Leisure section on May 20, 2007.

Shen Wei Dance Arts Paints a Different Canvas

In the realm of the arts, where nothing is deemed new and everything seems borrowed, choreographer Shen Wei has managed to shock and delight both audiences and critics alike. Steering […]

ODC/Dance Takes On Hard Truths With Fluid Agility

Review: March 2, 2007, Program 1