Tips for Documenting and Preserving Your Dances

The ephemeral beauty and spontaneity of live performance is what draws many of us to dance, and also what challenges choreographers who want to leave a lasting legacy of their […]

10 Days to Celebrate Your Favorite Moves: Bay Area Dance Week

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Bay Area Dance Week festival presented by Dancersโ€™ Group, which is part of a national and international celebration of dance. This yearโ€™s […]

Welcome

Tomorrow, I get to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. I will do this with my niece and her three young children, ages seven, five and two. Selfies will be […]

The Salimpour School at 70: Belly Dance for the 21st Century

Surrounded by myths, misconceptions, and sometimes maligned, belly dance as we think of it todayโ€”with two-piece costumes baring the midriff, presented in restaurants and renaissance fairesโ€”is actually quite young. While […]

Going Bicoastal: RAWdance Does a Triple Take

Photo by Hillary Goidell For fifteen years, under the banner of RAWdance, Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith have been teaching and producing work in San Francisco. Their leadership in […]

In Practice: NAKA Dance Theater in the time of COVID-19

Photos by Scott Tsuchitani On our way out of Margaret Jenkinsโ€™ CHIME event on December 8, 2019, Josรฉ Navarrete invited me to have a conversation about NAKAโ€™s social justice work, […]

FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL – 20th Anniversary

The 20th annual FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and queer performance, showcasing dance, theater, music, poetry, and comedy โ€“ expands to two weeks of FREE online performances, presented from […]

South and Southeast Asian New Year Celebration

Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) will present its first-ever virtual South and Southeast Asian New Year Celebration with a weeklong schedule of diverse cultural content featuring new yearโ€™s traditions from […]

Burn Scars

You can still see the burn scars that dot the hills near the campus where I live, which is on the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi tribe and the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

Itโ€™s Hard To Say

This is the story of a dancing banana. Try saying it out loud: โ€œDancing banana.โ€ On the first syllable of โ€œdancingโ€ and the second syllable of โ€œbananaโ€ your mouth turns up into a smile.