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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Changes, en L’air: Dekkers debuts his new company, Post:Ballet

In these times, it’s hard to know with any certainty what the future holds for the ballet world. While there still seems to be plenty of room for the status […]

To Be A Traveler in Your Own City, Oct 2008

Where would you take out of town visitors if they arrived today? What’s “interesting” about San Francisco, something tourists travel the world to see? How would you compose an insider’s […]

Degrees of Dance: Motivations for Pursuing an MFA or PhD

As university dance departments require that applicants for teaching positions hold terminal degrees, artists and writers are negotiating different paths to obtaining MFAs and PhDs. Interviewing five artists and scholars who […]

Masks Off: Sara Shelton Mann Talks About Her New Set of Simultaneous Solos, The Eye of Horus

At 70, Sara Shelton Mann remains not only one of the Bay Area’s preeminent artists, but a restless, galvanizing seeker. Her latest project, The Eye of Horus—made in collaboration with David Szlasa […]

Dancing Lessons: How Engaging Dance Audiences Is Educating the Field

How many grants encourage you to come up with your own plan, experiment mid-stream with what works and what doesn’t, and engage in discussions with other grant recipients while in […]

ONSITE: Sara Shelton Mann

The Eye of Horus April 24, 26, 28, 30 and May 3, 2014 12:30 PM (all shows) FREE Jessie Square, Mission St (btw 3rd & 4th), SF Directed by Sara Shelton Mann […]