Notes on Rendering Vessels

This writing is an accumulation of reflections on transformation taken from dark/lessons/rupture, an evening of performance excerpts featuring new works by Jess Curtis and Beyond Gravity artists, Silk Worm and RUPTURE (jose e. abad, Gabriele Christian, Stephanie Hewett, Styles Alexander, and Clarissa Dyas), co-presented by Gravity and CounterPulse.

When Salsa Swipes Right on Somatics, There is a Match

Photo by David Poertner What if the digital space could be a reprieve, an alternate reality for postcolonial dance research? Perhaps now, working outside of institutional demands, brown perspectives can […]

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]

Pilot: Start-up Strategies for 2013

This article discusses the Pilot Program, ODCโ€™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, […]

For the Love of Dance; Dance Writers on Criticism, Nov 2007

Dancersโ€™ Group asks seven Bay Area dance critics questions about their jobs and role of dance criticism.

Critical Dialogues: Heather Desaulniers and Katherine Hawthorne

What if, rather than writing a review, a critic sat down with a choreographer to have a two-way conversation about the work? thatโ€™s the experiment behind critical dialogues. For this […]

Bigger, Better, Faster, More: Audience Development Tools for the 21st Century

THEREโ€™S A REVOLUTION BREWING in audience development, that amorphous and all-encompassing term that describes the tools we use to lure and keep patrons in our seats. A slew of new […]

Curating Performance in East Bay: Spotlight on Four Artist Groups

As most young artists discover, making the art is only half the work. Bringing the art to people involves a particular method to the madness. Commissions, showcases, residencies and co-productions, […]

In a New Place: Dance & Disability in 2018

The San Francisco Bay Area is known to be on the vanguard of what is possible in dance, who dances, where, and how. Because of the work of AXIS Dance […]

Speak: Money Changes Everything: Dance and Demos in Contemporary Capitalism

SARAH ANNE AUSTINโ€™S by now notorious March article in Dance/ USAโ€™s e-Journal compared dance in higher education to a pyramid scheme. The harsh economic reality faced by contemporary dancers is […]