Nancy Karp + Dancers: 40th Anniversary Season

Nancy Karp + Dancers will celebrate its 40th anniversary year with four performances of the world premiere of fly through the night, and land near dawn. Created by Karp with […]

Nancy Karp + Dancers: 40th Anniversary Season

Nancy Karp + Dancers will celebrate its 40th anniversary year with four performances of the world premiere of fly through the night, and land near dawn. Created by Karp with […]

ANNA HALPRIN: Redefining Dance at 95

ANNA HALPRIN is, quite simply, amazing. In July she’ll turn 95, but she is still actively teaching, experimenting, creating, performing, and changing people’s lives through her approach to dance. “I have an enduring love for […]

SPEAK: Memory/Place

“Is it possible I think of my home in every thought, in every hour? I surrender myself. I dedicate to her these teardrops continually falling.” — From IIbn Hamdis’ ancient […]

BLESSED UNREST: A Festival of Possibilities at the Intersection of Social Justice and Performance

IN A TIME of spiraling inequality, discontent and violence, the sometimes vapory subject of art’s relation to social justice takes on a cold, sober, even urgent aspect. As in the […]

Artist Residencies as Homes for Community-building and Risk-taking

IN THE RECENTLY-RELEASED documentary about Yvonne Rainer called Feelings are Facts, one statement reveals a key element in the artistic explorations of the 1960s: Steve Paxton says that he had […]

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 […]

Dancing with Jiajia on the Spine of the Temple of Heaven

THIS PAST DECEMBER I was selected as one of seven American choreographers to engage in a cultural exchange in China, a program of ZiRu Productions and Dancers’ Group—with financial support […]

PURSUING INTIMACIES: Joe Goode’s installation makes performance into a personal encounter

FOR A GUY who’s interested in the “up close and personal,” Joe Goode is awfully hard to meet up with. When we spoke by phone in July about his new […]

Exploring the Horizon: The Red Wind Within Us

In trying times of transition, a resurgence of art and activism allows room for renewed questioning of assumed certainties. The current political climate has created a pressurized environment where artists […]