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In Practice: Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts’ Six Degrees of Freedom

First of all, full disclosure: the Wymore of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts is kind of my boss—Lisa Wymore, Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, […]

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at 35: Translations Over Time

Choreographer Margaret Jenkins premieres her evening-length work Other Suns (A Trilogy) at the Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts September 24-26. The collaboration with China’s Guangdong Modern […]

LINES Ballet: Homegrown Company Takes Flight

On October 1, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom presented the 2nd Annual Mayor’s Art Award to Alonzo King, the celebrated Artistic Director and Choreographer of LINES Ballet. “Alonzo King is […]

A Promising New Partnership: José Manuel Carreño Takes the Lead at Ballet San Jose

Ballet partnerships are the stuff of legend: Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryishnikov and Natalia Makarova, José Manuel Carreño and Susan Jaffe…and Julie Kent…and Gillian Murphy. Carreño, one of […]

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.