2010 Highlight

As an emerging professional dancer, choreographer, performer, I seek out ways to develop my artistry, broaden my perspective on process/performance, and connect with communities in creative fields. My most memorable […]

Rotunda Dance Series

The Rotunda Dance Series program has been sunsetted.   Watch Excerpts from Rotunda Performances! Previous Artists: Robert Moses’ Kin (Feb 2020) Press Release here (pdf) Watch excerpt Nava Dance Theatre (Nov […]

Dancing Borders, Digitial Nations

DRESSED IN CAMBODIAN REGALIA and wearing a highly-stylized tail, Ouk Solichumnith appears as Sovann Macha. Her wrists turn softly as she kicks a leg back and upward past her waist; […]

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center: Celebrating a Half-Century of Making Dance and Community

In 1958, dance class was $2 at the studio Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson started above a liquor store on College Avenue in Berkeley. Adjusted for inflation, that means they […]

Lighting Artists in Dance

Announcing the 2019 Lighting Artists for Dance Grant Recipients In its 12th year, the Lighting Artists in Dance program provides lighting designers access to funds that will support artistic collaborations with […]

Our Breath is as thin as a Hummingbird’s Spin; A Foray into Interspecies Love

Review: Nanos Operetta & Inkboat at ODC Theater, July 26, 2007

Who Are We?

An overview of a new series called the Talking Dance Project, which aims to create dialogue around topics affecting Bay Area dance.

Artist & Educator Li Chiao-Ping Comes Full Circle, Apr 2007

An interview with internationally renowned artist and Bay Area native Li Chiao-Ping about her new professorship at Mills College and her upcoming performance “Home Works.”

ODC/Dance Takes On Hard Truths With Fluid Agility

Review: March 2, 2007, Program 1

Fua Dia Congo; Dancing Malonga Casquelourd’s Legacy, Dec 2007

Not many small dance companies survive the death of their founders. Started in 1977 by the late master dancer and drummer Malonga Casquelourd, Fua Dia Congo has continued in their […]