Building a Culture: An International Perspective

Introduction In the wake of the economic recession, dance education is at a critical turning point in California. Despite popular dance entertainment, such as So You Think You Can Dance […]

Bliss Dance Festival 2020

Bliss Dance Festival’s purpose is to promote women choreographers while empowering women to celebrate their sexuality, sex, and sexual desires. Bliss Dance Festival is Bay Area’s very first dance festival […]

Online Salsa Class w/ Ava Apple

Join Ava on Wednesdays 7-8pm and Fridays 2-3pm FREE Online SALSA for Beginners FREE ONLINE SALSA SHINES (Footwork) Class – level I/II FREE Online Salsa for Kids No partnerwork so […]

Stealing Stories: Leyya Tawil

You poor little creature…what is yours? Your house…your job…your kitchen chairs and the number plate on the door…ah! But these don’t belong to you. By what right did they come […]

CANCELLED – The Earth Speaks

At this time, Marin Center has cancelled this upcoming performance. Don’t Miss “THE EARTH SPEAKS” an IZZIE NOMINATED, multi-disciplinary dance-theatre production, choreographed by accomplished Indian Classical Dancer, Jyotsna Vaidee (www.jyotsnavaidee.com). […]

Oakland Asian Cultural Center: Lunar New Year Celebration

Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) will present its first-ever virtual Lunar New Year Celebration with a weeklong schedule of diverse cultural content featuring new year’s traditions from China, Vietnam, Korea, […]

CANCELLED – Within the Elements of Ore

At this time, Shawl-Anderson has postponed their upcoming performance. Within the Elements of Ore is a one night only event* with choreography by Michael D. Lee and poetry by RJ Equality […]

Change and Exchange: University of San Francisco

Try to pronounce the letters P-A-S-J as a word with one syllable–PASJ–and you speak the lingo of young artists at the University of San Francisco. Rather, the shorthand version for […]

In Practice: Nina Haft & Company’s Precarious Pod

Photo by Pak Han When I was dancing with Nina Haft in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Jewish themes were prevalent. She made a dance called Minyan that derived […]

In Practice: Meet Talli Jackson

Photo by Eric Polizer I grew up in Brooklyn (New York, not Wisconsin; if you think the clarification is unnecessary, you’ve never been to Wisconsin). And this is what it […]