Notes from an Invited Spy: My RSVP to 95 Rituals

“…How am I even going to write about this emerging, unfolding thing?…” I wrote this after my first day observing theater and dance company inkBoat in rehearsal for 95 Rituals, […]

Synchronous Objects: What Else Might Dance Look Like?: An Interview with Professor Norah Zuniga-Shaw

Back in college, while in one of my countless rehearsals I remember thinking, “I wonder what areas of the stage we use the most?” Little did I know that this […]

To PhD or Not to PhD

An overview of PhD programs across the U.S. and U.K.

New View with Dazaun Soleyn

Dazaun Soleyn is a teaching artist and choreographer in the Bay Area and is artistic director of dazaun.dance. Dazaun graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in […]

Pilot: Start-up Strategies for 2013

This article discusses the Pilot Program, ODC’s long-running incubator for emerging artists, and contextualizes how it functions within the San Francisco Bay Area as well as the larger dance community, […]

Kularts & Alleluia Panis: Setting the Stage for Filipinx Diaspora Narratives

In a conversation about how she classifies her artistic practice, she told me that she does not consider her work to be “Philippine” dance, as that would be disrespectful to regional practitioners who undergo rigorous study, practice, and discipline that she as a choreographer and dancer who has livedmost of her life in the US has not undergone…

Terry Sendgraff: We See You Flying!

Photos by Savage Photography The earth could not contain Terry, so she took to the sky. And when circumstances made it impossible for her to fly anymore, she overcame her […]

SPEAK: SUNSET DANCES and Being Grateful

Photo by Daniller Photography Making dance has always been a mixture of disciplined artistry and gratefulness. As in any practice or skill, there are levels or stages we move through; […]

Please Respond: RSVP Cycles in the Work of Anna and Lawrence Halprin

Ann and Lawrence Halprin have been married for over 68 years, and this pair of artists have spent just as long working together. An event this month at the Stern […]

In Conversation with Dance Monks’ Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty: Examining Natural Environments Through Interdisciplinary Performance

Water is essential. It sustains; it cleanses; it feeds; it restores. It makes all life possible. In recent months, these realities have hit particularly close to home as we have faced and […]