Making public our private: exhaustion, gossip, and unfinished sentences

The first thing you should know about our friendship is that when we are together, we get off-topic immediately. We are excellent at tangents. So, when Bhumi emailed us, we […]

to remain empty at all times, an effervescent palimpsest (or love letter) for the heart

Estrellx Supernova Photo by Williams College Photography Club. [ID: Estrellx is laying naked, face down, spiritually surrendering their body along the riverbank of The Green River in Williamstown, MA. The […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Spring Showcase

Kathy Mata Ballet celebrates Spring Showcase 2022, presenting classical and contemporary ballet pieces, performed with live accompaniment. Company members and guests perform in many different dance styles, including musical theater, […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Spring Showcase

Kathy Mata Ballet celebrates Spring Showcase 2022, presenting classical and contemporary ballet pieces, performed with live accompaniment. Company members and guests perform in many different dance styles, including musical theater, […]

Welcome

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?” I offered this as a provocation for the writers in this issue and I am awestruck by the beauty, grace, humility, […]

San Francisco Ballet: Starry Nights

San Francisco Ballet returns to the Stanford Live Arts Festival to present Starry Nights, following the success of the Company’s Frost Amphitheater debut in 2021. Featuring Jerome Robbins’ In the Night, Helgi […]

Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change

Dancing Care In April 2021, right after we’d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator.  We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]

Recent CA$H Dance Awardees

Spring 2023: Artists Andrea Rodriguez Antara Bhardwaj Audrey Johnson Bis-Millah Muhammad Conni McKenzie Evie Ladin Gabriele Christian Jesús Cortés Karla Flores Kim Requesto Surabhi Bharadwaj Tammy Johnson in partnership with […]

I Wonder if My Neighbors Can Hear Me Singing

In March, when we received the Stay at Home Order, I was burnt out. Most days, I was driving in circles around the Bay to keep up with my freelance gigs, eating peanut butter sandwiches in my car between jobs, and desperately in need of a break. I couldn’t have imagined when we received that first Stay at Home order on March 16 that we would be here now.

Anchor Us: Making and not Making in the time of Covid

For two artists who are self-producing events for their local communities, the notion of having a practice that negated any kind of product appealed—at once sustainable and restorative.