Deborah Slater Dance Theater Celebrates 20 Years

Eight dancers move through in an imaginary house, a dream space of empty rooms and corridors. Deborah Slater’s voice enters their reverie, encouraging them to abandon the notion that they […]

2024 San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival

San Francisco’s premiere aerial arts event featuring internationally recognized aerial artists and exciting newcomers breaking into the field. This biennial festival brings together spectacle, daring athleticism, aerial dance, and circus […]

Expanding Access: The Gugulethu Ballet Project

When you first meet Bay Area ballet teacher Kristine Elliott, it’s impossible not to be swept off your feet by her joyous laugh. The former American Ballet Theatre soloist radiates […]

95 WORDS FOR ANNA HALPRIN

Editor’s Note: As a way to further contribute to the 95 Rituals project that offers a variety of opportunities to pay tribute to the work of Anna Halprin, In Dance […]

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 […]

Did you know? Mix’d Ingrdnts

EVERY NOVEMBER, Micaya and the San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest present its dynamic weekend of performances by artists and companies from around the world, highlighting an incredible range of […]

Mouth of a Shark: work in progress

CubaCaribe presents The Power of Resiliency 2021 July 25- August 8 Resiliency continues to be a defining theme this year. One year after our first online series, we bring you more […]

Dance Discourse Project #21

Dreaming The Future Landscape Thu, Jan 14, 7:30pm Center for New Music, SF FREE DDP and the FRESH Festival joined forces to ask expansively, poetically and pragmatically: what can a […]

A Conversation on Inquiry and Performance with Tammy Johnson and Larry Arrington

This year marks the 5th Anniversary of Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s Studio 210 Summer Residency. As an arguably unicornesque opportunity. In a city where rehearsal and performance space rental fees […]

‘Conference of the Birds’ Brings Together Dance Forms in San Jose

The Conference of the Birds originally was a medieval Persian poem by ‘Attar (“The Pharmacist”)—who influenced the younger, more famous poet and Sufi mystic Rumi—an allegory about the birds of the […]