LA Dance Shorts Film Festival Online

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience […]

LA Dance Shorts Film Festival Online

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience […]

LA Dance Shorts Film Festival Online

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience […]

Hanau: Birth of a Hula Nation

Na Lei Hulu’s virtual 2021 show features newly choreographed pieces that run the gamut from kahiko to auana to hula mua (traditional to modern to innovative). Filmed in San Francisco and […]

Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change

Dancing Care In April 2021, right after we’d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator.  We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]

Making public our private: exhaustion, gossip, and unfinished sentences

The first thing you should know about our friendship is that when we are together, we get off-topic immediately. We are excellent at tangents. So, when Bhumi emailed us, we […]

Welcome

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?” I offered this as a provocation for the writers in this issue and I am awestruck by the beauty, grace, humility, […]

Smuin Contemporary Ballet: Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin

Smuin Contemporary Ballet wraps up its 28th season with the vibrant program, Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin, featuring four diverse ballets from established dancemakers and rising choreographic voices, with performances in […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Spring Showcase

Kathy Mata Ballet celebrates Spring Showcase 2022, presenting classical and contemporary ballet pieces, performed with live accompaniment. Company members and guests perform in many different dance styles, including musical theater, […]

Passing

In 2021 I was hired as an artist in residence at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA), a San Francisco high school I graduated from in 2020.