Queering Dance Festival: Queer Date Night Film Screening

Queering Dance Festival closes out its spring events with a free film screening featuring two new dance films: Go Big or Go Home, a fever dream following two best friends […]

New View with Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo

Originally from East Los Angeles, Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo was raised by a single mother who is a native of Mexicali, México. She credits her hometown with forming the base of her […]

30 YEARS: The Dance Community’s Reflections on Rita Felciano

EDITOR’S NOTE: What better way to honor a writer—especially one like dance critic Rita Felciano— than to feed her words. Along with Ann Murphy’s article on page 3, the following […]

Setting Skywatchers’ “At the Table”: Connection, Empowerment, and Art at the Margins

Melanie DeMore is leading a procession from the Tenderloin to San Francisco City Hall. It’s the last Saturday in October, a little more than a week before Election Day, and […]

Back and Forth

This year, in fertile Luna Dance Institute land, two new babies are born, bringing the total child count up to eight kids in an organization of eight full-time employees. In […]

WAVES OF CHANGE: West Wave Dance Festival Returns With Joe Landini at the Helm

It was a sad day for Bay Area dance when the West Wave Dance Festival folded in 2012. The annual showcase began as Summerfest under the direction of Cathleen McCarthy […]

SPEAK: Invaluable Lessons

Photo by Keith Sutter My first week as Artistic Director of Sacramento Ballet, I learned we had lost our warehouse space and would need to deeply consolidate our sets and […]

WE DANCE TOGETHER, WE STAND TOGETHER: Batsheva’s 50th Anniversary Tour to San Francisco

WHEN I EMBARKED on writing an article about Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin (company artistic director), the company’s 50th anniversary, Gaga, and their upcoming tour of Sadeh21 (2011) to San Francisco in November at […]

From Vision to Mainstay in a Decade: San Francisco Dance Film Festival

What do you love about fall? It’s by far my favorite time of year, so my list is on the longer side. There are the beloved seasonal traditions – Thanksgiving […]

Connecting at the Dancewoods Festival

This article originally appeared in Stance on Dance. As a dancer, my physical reality strongly influences who I am, how I move and think. Knowing this about myself, I make […]