Kathy Mata Ballet: Winter Holiday Showcase

Kathy Mata Ballet has been missing live theater and can’t wait to see all of you again in person! We hope you can come celebrate the winter holidays with us […]

Flux Vertical Theatre: Grand Opening Gala

Flux Vertical Theatre is a small, local, women-owned business dedicated to promoting the art of vertical dance including pole and circus arts. Since launching our performance company in 2015, Flux […]

Flux Vertical Theatre: Grand Opening Gala

Flux Vertical Theatre is a small, local, women-owned business dedicated to promoting the art of vertical dance including pole and circus arts. Since launching our performance company in 2015, Flux […]

A Letter to Our Multi-Marginalized Disabled Dancers

My beloved disabled dancers,

I am gazing at the shadows of trees dancing upon
gravel walls as the golden hour sun joins in.
It’s beautiful isn’t it?

Corporate Giving 101

Ah, stalking the elusive corporate donor! Back in the good ol’ fundraising days (the mid-80’s, in case you’re wondering), oil companies, banks, department stores, you-name-it, every corporation in America seemed […]

CRITICAL DIALOGUES: Rachel Howard and Scott Marlowe

What if, rather than writing a review, a critic sat down with a choreographer to have a two-way conversation about the work? That’s the experiment behind Critical Dialogues. For this first installment, […]

A Promising New Partnership: José Manuel Carreño Takes the Lead at Ballet San Jose

Ballet partnerships are the stuff of legend: Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryishnikov and Natalia Makarova, José Manuel Carreño and Susan Jaffe…and Julie Kent…and Gillian Murphy. Carreño, one of […]

KEEPING THE PEACE BETWEEN THE TRADITIONAL AND THE MODERN: Speaking with Hula Master Patrick Makuakane

CHOREOGRAPHER, DANCER AND KUMU HULA (master teacher) Patrick Makuakane is a dynamo of thoughtful energy and good-natured cheer. Speaking with him in a coffee shop near his home in Potrero Hill, I was […]

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 […]

Choreographing Change; An Interview with USF

Amie Dowling is currently a faculty member in the Performing Arts Department at the University of San Francisco. I first met her the senior year of my undergraduate education at […]