For Current Projects

MoToR/dance: Water in the Kettle

Water in the Kettle uses Artistic Director Evie Ladin’s body music choreography (harmony singing, body percussion, rhythm dance) to illuminate the maddeningly recurrent struggles of modern women and the country, […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Bay Area Dance Week 2023

Kathy Mata Ballet company members and guests will perform dances ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, in a variety of solos, duets, character dance and more–plus live musical accompaniment on […]

Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Bay Area Dance Week 2023

Kathy Mata Ballet company members and guests will perform dances ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, in a variety of solos, duets, character dance and more–plus live musical accompaniment on […]

Dance Film Comes of Age

A look at the marriage of dance and film. Stephanie Linakis explores this artistic shift, who it interests, and which events in the upcoming year will highlight the use of this medium.

SPEAK

I’d like to think I have become a mature dancer. After a 12-year professional career, I don’t get nervous anymore. As I perform, I enjoy the clarity of being on […]

Mujer Sav/bia*, Guatesi torta Yalabitata** –en Español

Quienes somos está ligado esencialmente al espacio en el que crecimos y todas las memorias que tenemos sobre esos espacios.

Mujer Sav/bia*, Guatesi torta Yalabitata**

Who we are is essentially linked to the space in which we grew up and all the memories we have about those spaces.

CALI & CO dance: PERFECT.RESPONSE.

PERFECT. explores perfectionism and its impacts on the individual body, and the collective body, and seeks to dismantle notions of standards and norms (whose standards, whose norms!? RESPONSE. researches the […]