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 Dancers’ Group, which is part of a national and international celebration of dance. This year’s […]

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 […]

Technological Conversations: Talking About New Work with Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa

When meeting Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa to talk about their new collaboration tribes/dominion premiering at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on May 20, my goal was to […]

Move and Be Moved During Bay Area Dance Week

Each year hundreds of dance organizations, companies, schools and artists open up their doors and invite the public—you!—to attend an event, completely free of charge, during Bay area dance Week (BADW). dancers’ group […]

Dispersing the Diaspora: Excerpts from the CounterPULSE Blog

Edited by Maureen Walsh Traversing personal and cultural borders are two topics that the Performing Diaspora artists, staff and audience are talking about. I’ve sifted though the CounterPULSE blog, selecting […]

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 […]

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Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

To help celebrate Dancers’ Group’s 30th anniversary this year, we have reached out to people to share a special remembrance. Throughout 2012 this publication will carry a few pieces per […]

Swing Dance Lives On in the Bay Area

Impossible to resist. You know that toe-tapping, pre- World War II tune “Sing, Sing, Sing” that commands you to dance the moment you hear it? That was the point of […]

In Conversation with Dance Monks’ Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty: Examining Natural Environments Through Interdisciplinary Performance

Water is essential. It sustains; it cleanses; it feeds; it restores. It makes all life possible. In recent months, these realities have hit particularly close to home as we have faced and […]