BRIDGING THE GAPS: Challenges and Opportunities for US-China Cross-Cultural Exchange

WHEN I FIRST VISITED CHINA to perform in the Beijing Dance Festival in 2012, I arrived assuming that modern dance in China was a relatively new, underdeveloped phenomenon. I had no […]

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 […]

Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble (NCDE) & Lydia Feuerhelm: In a New Light

In a New Light brings together two Peninsula dance artists, Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble (NCDE) & Lydia Feuerhelm, for an evening of new performances.  The split-bill event will include a […]

Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble (NCDE) & Lydia Feuerhelm: In a New Light

In a New Light brings together two Peninsula dance artists, Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble (NCDE) & Lydia Feuerhelm, for an evening of new performances.  The split-bill event will include a […]

Jyotsna Vaidee: Abhilasha : The Longing

The Longing is a Bharatanatyam presentation in the format of a Margam performed by dancer, choreographer Jyotsna Vaidee and accompanied by Bay Area’s immensely talented classical musicians. This talented group […]

Change and Exchange: University of San Francisco

Try to pronounce the letters P-A-S-J as a word with one syllable–PASJ–and you speak the lingo of young artists at the University of San Francisco. Rather, the shorthand version for […]

In Practice: Meet Talli Jackson

Photo by Eric Polizer I grew up in Brooklyn (New York, not Wisconsin; if you think the clarification is unnecessary, you’ve never been to Wisconsin). And this is what it […]

KAMBARA + DANCERS: IKKAI means once: a transplanted pilgrimage

IKKAI means once: a transplanted pilgrimage, commissioned by Japanese American Citizens League San Jose Chapter, is an evening length dance choreographed by Yayoi Kambara. It weaves together modern dance, a […]

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest (Day Two)

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest highlights the strength, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area contemporary dance scene through a two-weekend mini festival of site-specific work. Curated by RAWdance’s Artistic Directors, […]

Stealing Stories: Leyya Tawil

You poor little creature…what is yours? Your house…your job…your kitchen chairs and the number plate on the door…ah! But these don’t belong to you. By what right did they come […]