Pure Alchemy; A Roundtable Interview with the Artists of Kate Mitchell

Interview with Spirit House’s collaborating choreographers Kate Mitchell, Brittany Brown Ceres and Katie Faulkner.

Ways of Looking; Disability as Ability

An examination of the way audiences, both European and American, approach integrated dance.

Artist & Educator Li Chiao-Ping Comes Full Circle, Apr 2007

An interview with internationally renowned artist and Bay Area native Li Chiao-Ping about her new professorship at Mills College and her upcoming performance “Home Works.”

The CONCEPT Series; Caffeine, Cake and Concert Dance

What if going to a dance concert were more like going to the movies? You could sit back and relax, eat and drink and, get to see all the action […]

My Hot Lobotomy; Review: October 23, 2008

In My Hot Lobotomy by David Szlasa and Sara Shelton Mann the audience knows within moments that dancer/choreographer Erin Mei-Ling Stuart is one adroit actress. She sits alone for long […]

Improvising the Change We Need

Dancers who improvise together are onto something. We muster every bit of social intelligence and multidisciplinary craft to invent new worlds. The Bay Area is rich with improvisational forms. Among […]

Pitching Hay; Review: March 30, 2007

Deborah Hay is a hard one to catch. Years ago, she used to roll into town, often in the summer, and have a quiet interlude at Dancers’ Group/Footwork. She’d offer […]

What Inspires You?

Wanting a bit of winter inspiration, Dancers’ Group sent a request to a variety of dancers, administrators, choreographers, designers, artistic directors, funders, and even some politicians, asking them to respond […]

Moving Arts is Moving Up: New Space in the East Bay

A drive through the industrial parks on Whitman Road in Concord looks, frankly, unpromising. But dance has a way of making a home in the unlikeliest of places, and out […]

Revealing the Process

When someone joins the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee (The Izzies), they’re usually pleasantly surprised. Instead of a mysterious, shadowy group they will find a group of individuals like themselves—passionate […]