When Dance Hits Music: Two choreographers and a string quartet creatively collide in “StringWreck”

“Charlie and I recognize that we might be inviting catastrophe in terms of trying new things with new people in new situations where there’s just very little known ground,” says […]

The Symmetry Project: A non-linear, graphic embodiment of our performance process

LINEAR NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION JESS: Over the last three years Maria and I have created a series of studies we collectively named The Symmetry Project. They have been developed and performed […]

Thread: Our three weeks with the San Francisco Ballet, Apr 2008

From the moment I walked in the front door off Franklin Street through the final rehearsal and showing, I felt excitement, warmth and support from everyone at the San Francisco […]

Making Video Make Sense

Jessica Robinson focuses on the merging of film and live performance and how this movement affects the futures of these art forms.

Lighting Artists in Dance

Announcing the 2019 Lighting Artists for Dance Grant Recipients In its 12th year, the Lighting Artists in Dance program provides lighting designers access to funds that will support artistic collaborations with […]

A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own, Mar 2007

An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination.

Dance Discourse Project #13

Dancing in the Museum CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group co-presented a panel of distinguished curators, executives, artists and thinkers who discussed what happens when dance comes alive in territory built for […]

Improvising the Change We Need

Dancers who improvise together are onto something. We muster every bit of social intelligence and multidisciplinary craft to invent new worlds. The Bay Area is rich with improvisational forms. Among […]

Top Marks in Performance: Why New Highland Academy’s curriculum works

“The best part about dance for my students is that it has become ‘cool’ to take risks and try new things. It is no longer peer accepted to stand back […]

San Francisco Conservatory Takes on Forsythe

After seeing Alex Ketley’s Careless at last summer’s WestWave Dance Festival, audience members might have wondered who were the cast’s athletic and daring creatures that made up the San Francisco […]