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 […]

Dancers for a Free Palestine: Tactics of Resistance that Artists Understand

As the horrors of the ongoing U.S. funded Israeli genocide in Palestine pour into our social media feeds from Gaza over the last six months, it has become more clear to me how FLACCโ€™s seemingly small, yet, public โ€œplatformโ€ has more influence and power on a political and cultural stage than I realized.

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 […]

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 Dancersโ€™ Group/ONSITE, 95 Rituals is a […]

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 โ€“ local, regional, national and international – to […]

A Place to Explore: Mama Calizo

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

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

NEW VIEW: Julie Potter

Meet Julie Potter, the Director of San Franciscoโ€™s ODC Theater, who stepped into the role in the fall of 2016. Dancersโ€™ Group has had the privilege of working with Julie […]