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 […]

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 […]

Stepping to the Beat of a Different Fiddle with the Barbary Coast Cloggers

As the first high notes of fiddle fill the air, a group of twelve men in jeans and flannel shirts begin to clap rhythmically. A banjo joins the fiddle, and […]

Circus Bella: Bananas

Circus Bella returns to Yerba Buena Gardens with Bananas, a brand-new outdoor show! In the company’s 14th season, the family favorites feature an array of the brightest circus talents from […]

Zaccho Dance Theatre: Black Futures Artist in Residence Program

Call for Applications 2023-2024 All Bay Area Black theater, dance, and interdisciplinary artists, as well as collaborative teams are eligible to apply. Residencies will take place from October 2023 to […]

Choreofund: A Work in Progress

IN DECEMBER 2013, with the support of my co-workers, I started an experiment called CHOREOFUND. It has been my life’s work to investigate the creative process. Some of the most […]

The Bay Area’s Summer Performances: Theatrical adventures for any taste

If you want to experience the real Bay Area dance scene in all its breadth, depth, variety, and just-get-up-and-move wildness, you may have to come in the summer. True, September […]

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 […]

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 […]

WE DANCE TOGETHER, WE STAND TOGETHER: Batsheva’s 50th Anniversary Tour to San Francisco

WHEN I EMBARKED on writing an article about Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin (company artistic director), the company’s 50th anniversary, Gaga, and their upcoming tour of Sadeh21 (2011) to San Francisco in November at […]