SPEAK: Performing Science: Dancing by Numbers

A couple of years ago I was attending the bi-annual german Dance Congress in Berlin. At the end of a presentation by Alva Noë, a UC Berkeley, Philosophy of Perception […]

A Show Must Go On, Jérôme Bel Style

FEW ARTISTS HAVE TRIGGERED the intensity of divisive responses that Jérôme Bel has elicited for close to two decades. To some, Bel’s a brilliant artist and a clever provocateur, rethinking […]

SPEAK

I’ve been teaching Dance for PD® since 2007 and integrating dancers with Parkinson’s disease into my choreography since 2009. This journey began when Herb Heinz, a very good friend, divulged […]

Beyond the Stage: In Conversation with La Tania

Under the warm glow of the stage lights, two guitarists and a vocalist offer the opening musical motifs, their lively, impassioned sound penetrating the air. A soloist approaches them, costumed […]

Beauty in Search of a Resting Place

Does an artist have a responsibility to anything or anyone other than their whim?

Zeitgeist or Twincidence?

Working on a dance theater project about twins over the past two years I’ve noticed a twinflux of interest. . . . an influx of twinterest. . . . and […]

In Practice: Encounters Over 60 with Margaret Jenkins

Merián Soto, Photo by Bill Hebert In October and November 2019, I saw the work of three remarkable New York-based artists: Adia Whitaker, Miguel Gutierrez, and Tere O’Connor. Although O’Connor […]

Danse Lumiere: Women in the Arts: A Conversation

Join us for a lively conversation that celebrates the artistic process: the achievements and challenges of women in the arts, looking at the past, present, and future, as well as […]

Welcome, Sep 2013

Often, Opulent Opportunities co-mingle with high/low art and do-it-yourself sensibilities, mixing cultures and movements—figurative and literal—that collide and complicate the total truth of the occasion. At some future time, the […]

Ranko Ogura Dance: Land of Kamuy – Soil & Soul

The dance piece, Soil and Soul is part of the performance Land of Kamuy which is based on the myth of the Ainu tribe, the indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan. […]