SPEAK: Risk and Triumph: Bellwether Dance Project’s Let Slip the Witches

I want to tell you about a show. A show I’ve had in my dreams for years. It is a show that is full of heart and a little drama […]

Speak: Still With Us by Debby Kajiyama, April 2014

Editors note: Debby Kajiyama is 2014 recipient of The Della Davidson Prize. This annual award has been set-up to honor the life and work of choreographer and teacher Della Davidson by supporting innovative […]

Inspirations and Obsessions: A Conversation with Dancers’ Group’s New Program Director

Dancers’ Group has a long history of working with dance artists to oversee and develop the organization’s programs and services. Simply, over the years, the many dance artists we have […]

Put Yourself On the Beam

An email exchange between guest editor Rowena Richie and butoh legend Hiroko Tamano 

Hit and Run Hula: Nä Lei Hulu dancers set to shake up San Francisco

A family of four strolls along Pier 39 licking ice cream cones and listening to the sea lions bark. Suddenly, a bus pulls up and colorfully dressed men and women […]

Going Gaga: New Movement in the Middle East, Sept 2009

Blessed with a small grant and an apartment I found on Craigslist, I travelled recently to Israel and Palestine’s Occupied Territories to investigate dance and cultural diversity. For five weeks […]

New View: David Martinez

With fresh young faces popping up constantly, the local Bay Area dance community is unique blend of seasoned artists and newbie dancers. In Dance caught up with new-to-town David Martinez […]

Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

Space to Make Mistakes 1994–I once locked a homeless man into the Dancers’ Group/Footwork 22nd Street space overnight. Well, it wasn’t just me. It was all three of us POTRZEBIE […]

Zeitgeist or Twincidence?

Working on a dance theater project about twins over the past two years I’ve noticed a twinflux of interest. . . . an influx of twinterest. . . . and […]

Watch Out for the Big Grrrls

Most of my life I told myself I was too fat to have short hair.