Come Together: Two Perspectives on the College Dance Festival

Contemporary dance is thriving in our universities. At a time when funding for professional dance work is increasingly scarce, universities serve as sanctuaries for dance artists at all stages of […]

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 […]

Next-Gen Interventions: What We Need To Perform

Contrary to common sentiment, ‘next-gen’ does not refer to ‘looking to the youngest person in the room.’ From our perspective, ‘next-gen’ refers to a combination of skills that are effective […]

Israel Gone Gaga: Batsheva to the Max

Float. Pull your bones. Smear your flesh on the ground. Connect to your pleasure. Quake. Stretch your face. Find the snake in your spine. Put a good taste in your […]

SPEAK: Performing Science: Dancing by Numbers

A couple of years ago I was attending the bi-annual german Dance Congress in Berlin. At the end of a presentation by Alva Noë, a UC Berkeley, Philosophy of Perception […]

AXIS Dance Company Celebrates 25 Years of Innovative, Integrated Dance

“We stopped doing pieces about disability fifteen years ago,” said Judith Smith, founding member and creative director of AXIS Dance Company. This month, the internationally renowned physically integrated dance company […]

Dance Discourse Project #17

Sex and Performance in the Bay Area At this event, we celebrated the last edition of “Dance Theatre Journal,” the THIS IS WHAT I WANT edition, guest edited by Tessa […]

A Show Must Go On, Jérôme Bel Style

FEW ARTISTS HAVE TRIGGERED the intensity of divisive responses that Jérôme Bel has elicited for close to two decades. To some, Bel’s a brilliant artist and a clever provocateur, rethinking […]

The Jewish Nutcracker Goes Back in History and Redresses for the Holidays

MAKING HISTORIC COSTUMES for the theater can toss a designer way back in time, but for dancer-designer Jamielyn Duggan it was a quantum leap to 166 BCE for The Jewish […]

DID YOU KNOW? Highlighting the Activities of Artists/Organizations in Our Region

FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mona Khan formed the Mona Khan Company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009. Khan has trained in Bharatnatyam for nine years and went on […]