Reflections from the Community

To compliment the articles in this issue that pay tribute to the 30th Anniversary of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival we put a call out to the community in […]

SPEAK By Seth Eisen

By Seth Eisen I came to the Bay Area in 1994 as a recent graduate of Naropa University with a degree in performance and a background in visual arts. I […]

Collaboration as Beautiful Mystery: A Glimpse into Kim Epifano’s Botany’s Breath

Artistic collaboration is huge in today’s modern dance scene. And when something is so prevalent, there is a desire to categorize it; assign it a name and file it in […]

Finding Trio A

It is a well documented fact that in 1965 the dance and film icon Yvonne Rainer spent about 180 days in a studio in New York City creating what has […]

A ROVING ELEGY: The Anastasio Project

At the Eastside Arts Alliance’s rehearsal of The Anastasio Project, a multidisciplinary mobile public performance, young people are engaged in improvisational work that will eventually be a public offering. “Raw” is too […]

Dancing in the Land of Edelweiss: My Adventures in Salzburg

Three months ago I was living the good life. I resided in an apartment in beautiful Oakland, California seven blocks from Lake Merritt with two cats, a boyfriend and another […]

Did you know? Los Lupeños de San José

Los Lupeños de San José is one of the region’s many mexican folklórico companies and was founded in 1969 by Susan Cashion, Phd and Ramón Morones. After a variety of changes, […]

Choreofund: A Work in Progress

IN DECEMBER 2013, with the support of my co-workers, I started an experiment called CHOREOFUND. It has been my life’s work to investigate the creative process. Some of the most […]

Uncovered: The Diary Project: Sean Dorsey’s Fifth Home Season

Most people already know that Sean Dorsey is a trailblazing pioneer in the modern dance world. He is the first openly transgendered choreographer to make work about his own life […]

The Shifting Cornerstone: WestWave Splashes into the Streets, July/ Aug 2008

Joanna Haigood, the Artistic Director of San Francisco based Zaccho Dance Theater, is a well-known creator of site specific apparatus based dance. She has been creating work world-wide on various […]