Getting it Out There: Smart Mobs, Improv Everywhere and Engaging Dance Audiences

A few weeks ago, a good friend told me I needed to check out a YouTube video she had come acrossβ€”The Sound of Music at Central Station in Antwerp. Google […]

Bigger, Better, Faster, More: Audience Development Tools for the 21st Century

THERE’S A REVOLUTION BREWING in audience development, that amorphous and all-encompassing term that describes the tools we use to lure and keep patrons in our seats. A slew of new […]

Welcome, Oct 2010

I was recently confronted with the saying, β€œIf you can spot it, you got it,” which I took as this: the faults I so easily point out in others are […]

Welcome, Nov 2010

β€œIt gets better,” the current phrase and theme to an online video campaign seeks to help lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth understand the choices and support structures […]

Performance Preview: What’s On For This Season

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, start your espresso machinesβ€”you’ll need extra zip to keep up with the Bay Area’s spring dance schedule, which includes new pieces from renowned local choreographers, avant-garde work […]

Turning Point: Re-Defining Bay Area Ballet

BALLET IS DEAD, bemoans dance historian Jennifer Homans in her latest opus, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet. Homans grew up in the Balanchine era and now finds the contemporary […]

Dance/USA: A Summer Camp Survival Guide

Like camp as a kid, the national dance community can look forward to Dance/USA’s Annual Conference each summer. Except, instead of the arts & crafts table, scary campfire stories, and […]

Welcome, Jun 2011

We’re at the half-point in the year and it’s time to remind ourselves of the good job we do and then find time to indulge in a little extra special […]

Looking Back to Move Forward: A Continued Conversation with Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen

PART TWO OF A TWO-PART ARTICLE IN THE OCTOBER 2013 ISSUE OF IN DANCE Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen announced that come January 2014 KUNST-STOFF Dance Company (KSDC) will no […]

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 […]