What’s Your NON-DANCE Job?

Numerous artists have passions in other fields. In the dance community it is not unheard of to have multiple jobs, dance related or not. In Dance posed the question to […]

We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives in Climate Chaos

Lobby experience includes a pre-performance lounge and an online auction.Β All performance screenings followed by a live Q & A.Β All performances will be ASL interpreted and Audio Described.Β  Join us amidst […]

Museum of Performance and Design: The Next Chapter

Adjacent to the opulence and grandeur of the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall lies a quiet, hidden jewel in San Francisco’s performing arts crown–the Museum of Performance […]

OUT of Site: SOMA – A Virtual Performance-Driven Queer History Tour

We have an antidote to being physically disconnected from our communities! An interactive, online show performed live touring the streets of San Francisco…virtually. OUT of Site: SOMA is virtual-live-street-theater project […]

To PhD or Not to PhD

An overview of PhD programs across the U.S. and U.K.

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.

History in the Taping: Confessions of an Accidental Dance Videographer

As I was preparing to write this article about dance documentation, it occurred to me that it has been exactly ten years since Shelley Trott and I started the interviews […]

Sustaining the Field Through Change: Facilitate Community by Releasing Control

Reluctance to embrace innovation holds the field of dance in stasis. This reluctance (or hesitation) limits outreach, spreading and feeding what many call “fear of change.” My interest lies in […]

Marketing Your Art 101: Creating Dances and Creating Audiences

FIRST LET ME START WITH A DISCLAIMER: Some of the ideas I broach in the next few paragraphs are practices that have not actually been implemented by our organization. Marketing […]

Pilot: Start-up Strategies for 2013

This article discusses the Pilot Program, ODC’s long-running incubator for emerging artists, and contextualizes how it functions within the San Francisco Bay Area as well as the larger dance community, […]