Tales of Change: CounterPulse and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Look to the Future

In Italy there’s a famous adage that says “everything must change in order for everything to stay the same.” To our 21st century ears this might sound like a zen parable, […]

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 […]

SPEAK: Discovering the Power and Ability to Take Action

Photo by John Carnahan I am deeply immersed in contact improvisation and site-specific dance—exploring the possibilities/capabilities of my body in relationship to other bodies and in relationship to space/architecture. I […]

OUT of Site: Haight-Ashbury

Saturdays and Sundays, June 12-July 25, 11am and 3pm OUT of Site, San Francisco’s performance-driven queer history tour, returns this summer with a dazzling new edition starring award-winning stage, television […]

Hearan Chung’s Eternal Dance: Review: February 23, 2008

I first met Hearan Chung six years ago. The dancer, recently arrived from South Korea, was living with her two children in an apartment in Millbrae, and I drove down […]

Mujer, Trabajo, Salud

Dance Mission Theater and La Colectiva de Mujeres  join forces to produce the new short film, Mujer, Trabajo, Salud, a celebration of women domestic workers, using dance, original music, and […]

Documenting Dance Learning in Schools

I started teaching dance as a bit of a fluke. Just a week after moving to San Francisco, I jumped into teaching, replacing a dance teacher who had left the […]

Bay Area Community Colleges: Great Teaching, Great Value

In the nine Bay Area counties, there are at least 17 colleges (the difficulty in counting comes from the fact that some have branches, while others have campuses and other […]

The Complexities and Contradictions of Awards Ceremonies

Mikhail Baryshnikov has a slew of honors to include in his biography, and for years listed prominently the “Bessie,” or New York Dance and Performance Award, which he was given […]

Health Care Volunteers Work to Keep You Dancing

Are you aware that there is a Healthy Dancers’ Clinic (HDC) at ODC Dance Commons for the Dance community? The clinic is open to all ages, disciplines of dance and […]