Jill Togawaโ€™s Dreams and Driveways

On July 28 Jill Togawa, Director of Purple Moon Dance Company, and I held a conversation in my Berkeley home regarding her upcoming site specific performance work, When Dreams Are […]

BABY BABY, COME ON HOME

Photo courtesy of Zoe Huey. [ID: A self portrait of a light-skinned, mixed-race Asian person with short hair in a blue long-sleeve button up shirt. The person is looking at […]

Imbuing Spirit into Cloth

  I didnโ€™t wake up one day thinking I should create ritual costumes. They snuck up on me. They whispered to me, they brought magic into my home and drew […]

Grassroots to Cyberspace: Evolution of Dancing Earth

Birthed from a vision from Founding Artistic Director Rulan Tangen to create global Indigenous contemporary performing arts opportunities, Dancing Earth is rooted with one foot in Yelamu โ€“ occupied Ohlone territory also known as San Francisco, California and the other foot in Ogaa Po Ogeh โ€“ occupied Tewa territory also known as Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Parades and Changes Over the Past 43 Years: an Interview with Anna Halprin

When choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin and her husband Larry perched themselves on the side of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, they rooted their creative futures in a landscape of […]

Collaborative Improvisation in Media and Dance

Erika Tsimbrovsky and Avy K Productions place visual art on equal footing with music and dance, creating a perfect environment for exploring the relationship between movement and image. Performances are […]

Who to See When Your Body Needs Support: Health Resources for Dancers

This list of health care providers has been compiled in part with the help of dance companies in the Bay Area who provided recommendations, with additions from Dancersโ€™ Group. It […]

WestWave Dance Festival Artists Speak

In addition to our interview with Joanna Haigood, we asked the 45 artists participating in this yearโ€™s DanceWaves and Film Night to offer up a first person perspectiveโ€”or in grant-speak, […]

(Virtual) 2020 Fresh Meat Festival

Fresh Meat Productions brings our 19th annual festival INTO YOUR HOME! Weโ€™re moving our entire festival ONLINE this year โ€“ and tickets are completelyย FREE! Join us for FIVE online programs […]

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 […]