Weaving a Future for Inclusive Dance: Integrating Disability Into the Dance World

This article originally appeared in Dance/USA’s eJournal, From the Green Room, on March 22, 2016, and is reprinted here with kind permission. Dance/USA, the national service organization for the professional […]

Critical Dialogues: Rachel Howard and Pearl Marill

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 […]

Fearless Grantwriting

EVERY ARTS ORGANIZATION will have to defend a seemingly indefensible situation to a potential funder at some point. Your first instinct might be to do everything you can to avoid […]

CounterPulse’s Next Ten

TEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME. Since 2005, I got married, finished graduate research, moved across the country twice and adopted a puppy. And those are just some of the […]

A Conversation on Women in the Arts

Patty Berne is a co-founder and executive director of Sins Invalid (sinsinvalid.org), a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with […]

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 […]

SPEAK: Shifting the Paradigm

Many of us teaching artists have unwittingly become stuck in dangerous perceptual habits. While this is happening across all levels of education, I want to focus on the issues of college […]

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center: Celebrating a Half-Century of Making Dance and Community

In 1958, dance class was $2 at the studio Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson started above a liquor store on College Avenue in Berkeley. Adjusted for inflation, that means they […]

Sharing History, Making History: Michelle Dorrance Has Her Sights on the Future of Tap

Whether jamming with a jazz band or teaching Late Night host Stephen Colbert a shim sham half break, Michelle Dorrance makes a personable and articulate ambassador for a new generation […]

Joe Goode Performance Group: Executive Director

The ED will collaborate with the Artistic Director, Staff, and Board of Directors to manage the organization’s day-to-day operations while helping to lead and shape its long-term vision and financial […]