The Grant You Wish You Could Write

Photo by Marley Trigg Stewart. [ID: Miguel Gutierrez looks softly into the camera while biting a rosary, bathed in orange light. He is a light skinned, Latinx cis-man with short […]

In Conversation with Vanessa Sanchez

Whoโ€™s getting funded and who has access to getting funded? And really looking at a lot of my mentors in the Bay Area and beyond who…have changed and shaped communities and done this work for decades and decades and decades, but because of resources and because of language barriers, they arenโ€™t necessarily able to apply and receive the funding they should be. With that, I just felt it really important in that I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones from the Bay Area โ€“ in our kind of world of dancers of color who are coming from dance forms from traditionally Black and brown communities โ€“ I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones getting this. There are so many more people who need and deserve this โ€“ this funding.

Five Tips for Getting Your Money Shit Together: Or, Lessons From a Middle-Aged, Middle Class Dance Artist

1ย  JUST SAY NO As artists, we need to stop askingย people to work for free, and we need to stop working for free. And we all need to say “no” […]

Book Review: Defining Radical Bodies

When someone says โ€œradical change,โ€ I wonder which definition they are using for โ€œradical.โ€ The word can refer to an approach that comes from outliers, one that challenges existing views, […]

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]

In Practice: Reconstructing Reconstruction with Chris Evans

What does it mean to grieve in the context of perpetual marginalization and terrorization? What are the contours of grief in the afterlife of ancestral, epigenetic, and intergenerational trauma? And […]

The Etcetera Preview: Upcoming Conferences & Festivals

Summer offerings for dance professionals don’t end with training intensives and seasonal performances. From the rigorous and scholarly to the imaginative and whimsical, conferences, symposiums and festivals serve as exciting […]

Bring Your Best Social Self to #DanceUSAconf

This year you will not get a folder filled with schedules, bios, and panel descriptions. Instead, organizers chose the eco-friendly option and made a mobile app that will contain your […]

MoToR/dance: Water in the Kettle

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

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