For The Love of Dance: A Community Remembers Victor Anderson (Aug 10, 1928-Feb 7, 2017)

It is a delicate task to write about a private person. And Victor Anderson, co-founder of the Shawl Anderson Dance Center, who died on February 7 at the age of […]

Building Sisterhood Through Movement

Nava Dance Collective, photo by Laura Soriano A cooperative with multiple contributors. An array of artistic perspectives and voices. A desire for an alternative, more egalitarian structure. A common passion for […]

Sanctuary Spaces: FRESH Festival Artists Violeta Luna and Roberto Varea Plan Empathy and Disruption Across Borders

FRESH Festival. Photo by Robbie Sweeny. “We were thinking about a number of other things,” says Roberto Varea when I ask him about what he and collaborator Violeta Luna have planned […]

MAP-MAKER: Katy Warner and the LINES Dance Center Celebrate 25 years of Dance Education

THE QUEST TO CAPTURE the illusion of flight is a defining tenet for any ballerina, yet Katy Warner, founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, has experienced the real thing. […]

Building Rainbow Logic: Arm in Arm with Remy Charlip

Have you ever heard the term ‘polymath’? Recently I took an informal poll of twelve close friends and asked if they could define it. Some couldn’t. Some thought it must be […]

Bridge Project 2016: Ten Artists Respond to Trisha Brown’s Locus

Bridges are a big part of the Bay Area’s landscape. From the spectacular vistas of the Golden Gate to the new Bay Bridge and many more, bridges link this region together. […]

Feminist Space in Dance: hers and hers asks questions with little seismic’s Katie Faulkner

Hey, We’re hers and hers. A new queer feminist dance collective in San Francisco We (Courtney King and myself) craft dance-theater with strong woman-identified performers, we write epic poems that […]

FINDING FLAMENCO: A Crash Course

I RECENTLY WENT on an artistic scavenger hunt. Or maybe it was more of a fact-finding mission. The goal – learn about flamenco dance in the Bay Area. The timeline […]

Dancing Through a Jewish Lens

How does being Jewish shape our lives and our work as dance artists? What do we have to contribute from a Jewish perspective? Just as I was finding my voice as a […]

Degrees of Dance: Motivations for Pursuing an MFA or PhD

As university dance departments require that applicants for teaching positions hold terminal degrees, artists and writers are negotiating different paths to obtaining MFAs and PhDs. Interviewing five artists and scholars who […]