Queering Dance Festival: Queer Date Night Film Screening

Queering Dance Festival closes out its spring events with a free film screening featuring two new dance films: Go Big or Go Home, a fever dream following two best friends […]

30 YEARS: The Dance Community’s Reflections on Rita Felciano

EDITOR’S NOTE: What better way to honor a writer—especially one like dance critic Rita Felciano— than to feed her words. Along with Ann Murphy’s article on page 3, the following […]

Classic, Contemporary and Controversial: Previewing the Upcoming Bay Area Ballet Season

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a vibrant and diverse professional ballet scene: inventive choreography, groundbreaking collaborations, committed artistic staff and highly-skilled dancers. Companies here are able to […]

Connecting at the Dancewoods Festival

This article originally appeared in Stance on Dance. As a dancer, my physical reality strongly influences who I am, how I move and think. Knowing this about myself, I make […]

Sharing the Artistic Journey

LET’S CONSIDER today’s contemporary dance performance in terms of what is ‘shared.’ Phrase material often comes from a shared process between choreographers and dancers. A collaboration requires shared contributions from […]

Watch Out for the Big Grrrls

Most of my life I told myself I was too fat to have short hair.

Back and Forth

This year, in fertile Luna Dance Institute land, two new babies are born, bringing the total child count up to eight kids in an organization of eight full-time employees. In […]

PUSH Dance Company: 1-hour Sanctuary Classes

Bay Area Dance Week is coming to #447Minna with free Sanctuary-style classes hosted at PUSH Dance’s brand new dance space. All styles and levels are welcome to dance. Hurry while […]

Jack Carpenter: a Master of Illumination

The estimable dance and theater lighting designer Thomas Skelton once remarked, “There are many barriers between the dancer and good lighting, but each can be hurdled with enough imagination, common […]

Reflection on Dancer, Storyteller, and Cultural Interpreter, Lanny Pinola

Editor’s Note: Dancers’ Group strives to honor the diverse and rich legacy of all forms of dance. To continue this mission we are working with Berkeley-based dancer and dance ethnologist, […]