FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL – 20th Anniversary

The 20th annual FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and queer performance, showcasing dance, theater, music, poetry, and comedy – expands to two weeks of FREE online performances, presented from […]

12th Annual Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration

Grown Women Dance Collective (GWDC) presents its 12th annual “Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance”, a virtual performance celebrating the Black community’s strength, resilience, self-empowerment and joy. […]

Cyphers in Cyberspace: Reimagining Cultural Arts and Dance Education in a Post-COVID World

As I reflect on this year of virtual dance learning, one thing has become strikingly clear: not only are many of our young students tragically estranged from their cultural and artistic heritage, but this estrangement negatively affects their social, emotional, and intellectual development.

The Soft Solace of a Slightly Descended Lost Life (Suck It)

Experience the latest digital creation of Robert Moses’ KIN titled “The Soft Solace of a Slightly Descended Lost Life (Suck It)”. This new work, RMK’s most ambitious video project to […]

Mouth of a Shark: work in progress

CubaCaribe presents The Power of Resiliency 2021 July 25- August 8 Resiliency continues to be a defining theme this year. One year after our first online series, we bring you more […]

Beyond Aesthetics: Bachata, Politics, Praxis

Originating among the (predominantly Black) rural poor in the Dominican Republic in the latter half of the twentieth century, bachata music and the accompanying dance steps were stigmatized by the sociopolitical elite as vulgar, low-class forms of entertainment unsuitable for polite society.

Dancing Archivists: A Conversation

Hallie Chametzky and Sarah Nguyen are archivist dance-makers who met at the Mark Morris Dance Group Archives, where Sarah was working and Hallie was visiting, in the fall of 2019.

Kularts & Alleluia Panis: Setting the Stage for Filipinx Diaspora Narratives

In a conversation about how she classifies her artistic practice, she told me that she does not consider her work to be “Philippine” dance, as that would be disrespectful to regional practitioners who undergo rigorous study, practice, and discipline that she as a choreographer and dancer who has livedmost of her life in the US has not undergone…

Seasons of Change

A performance by several bay area companies and artists. See excerpts of their works either live in person or online. Artists included in the show will be em(body) dance project […]

Daddy Matters

Joe Goode Performance Group and JGPG’s Dance for Parkinson’s Program present Daddy Matters— an ongoing father-daughter project, duet & discussion co-created/shared by Jhia Jackson + Richard Jackson. Daddy Matters uses […]