Dance Educators: On a Road to Create Change

Fifteen years ago, I found myself listening deeply to the stories my friends told about trying to teach dance in schools. Consider the experiences of two typical educators: Josh, a […]

Circa: Leviathan

Landing somewhere between circus and contemporary dance, this world-acclaimed performance company from Australia brings their latest production to Memorial Auditorium in a celebration of the expressive possibilities of the human […]

Dana Reitz: The Silent Innovator Comes to the Bay Area

Quick, name the top three dance performances you’ve ever seen. Mine come to mind easily. They are, in reverse order: 3. Rudolph Nureyev in Valery Panov’s The Idiot based on […]

Able-Minded: An Interview with Marc Brew

We are lucky to have a dance company like AXIS in our midst: extensive community outreach programs, a group of strong, eclectic dancers, high-caliber repertoire and commissioned work from gifted […]

Welcome, Apr 2010

Each of us holds a story of how we came to dance, some filled with rich histories motivated by family connections to the form, others focused on pivotal moments of […]

Expect the Unexpected: Subverting the Ballet Paradigm with Amy Seiwert and SKETCH 3

“When I started making work, no one was paying any attention whatsoever,” Amy Seiwert recalls. After nineteen years spent dancing for Sacramento Ballet and Smuin Ballet, she launched her choreographic […]

Weaving a Future for Inclusive Dance: Integrating Disability Into the Dance World

This article originally appeared in Dance/USA’s eJournal, From the Green Room, on March 22, 2016, and is reprinted here with kind permission. Dance/USA, the national service organization for the professional […]

Daddy Matters

Joe Goode Performance Group and JGPG’s Dance for Parkinson’s Program present Daddy Matters— an ongoing father-daughter project, duet & discussion co-created/shared by Jhia Jackson + Richard Jackson. Daddy Matters uses […]

Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee Announces Nominees and Honorees for 2018-19 Performance Season

The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, known locally as the Izzies, are awarded annually to acknowledge creative achievements in the performance and presentation of dance. This year the Isadora Duncan Dance […]

For You, For All of Us

The recent production of For You at the Marin Headlands was intended to be a break from self-absorbed, opaque art. Conceived by interdisciplinary performance maker Erika Chong Shuch, the April […]