Pilot in Progress: How We Build a Shared Evening

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010, 8:30AM I walk into ODC Dance Commons for the first meeting of PILOT 56. We sit together in the back office conference room. Kimi Okada, Director […]

Produce Your Next Event With CounterPulse!

INTERESTED IN BRINGING YOUR PERFORMANCE WORK TO COUNTERPULSE? Artists can join the acclaimed season of performance through one of these three tracks: CO-PRODUCTIONS PRESENTING PROGRAM CounterPulse partners with you by offering access […]

Ruth Zaporah and Shinichi Iova-Koga in Conversation

Editors Note: The following is a conversation between theater artist/performer Ruth Zaporah and choreographer/director Shinichi Iova-Koga, about his upcoming work 95 Rituals. Presented by Dancers’ Group/ONSITE, 95 Rituals is a […]

Spring Dance Inspiration: For the Benefit of the UCSF Brain Tumor Center

A ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT will allow you to see a host of dance companies and contribute to a good cause. The fourth annual Spring Dance Inspiration brings together San […]

First Annual International Day of Body Music

The International Day of Body Music is an effort to promote the artform and grow the Body Music community on all levels – local, regional, national and international – to […]

Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

Channeling the Future Throughout my 40 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dancers’ Group for me has been a place (the 22nd St. studio), a service organization, and a […]

A Place to Explore: Mama Calizo

With its bright pink awning and front-door mosaic of CDs that sparkle like giant sequins, Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory (MCVF) is a bright spot in the South of Market district […]

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 […]

Inspiration, Creation, and Evolution: Fallout: From San Francisco, to Singapore and Beyond

Our first international tour began with a poster. We’d like to claim that we embarked on creating a new work from some deep-seated artistic urgency, but no, it started with […]

Stretching the Limits: Managing Hypermobile Joints

Proper care of a hypermobile body can mean the difference between a fulfilling career and sidelined dreams. We know it when we see it: the hyperextended line of an arabesque, […]