How We Find Ourselves

Register for Zoom Link After 9 months of reflection, discourse, and exploration, Afro Urban Society is honored to present a digital event featuring our 2019-2020 Onye Ozi Artist Cohort. A […]

The Lively Foundation: Adult Ballet on Zoom

Adult Ballet online. Appropriate intermediate levels. Full barre plus combinations for small spaces. Register by emailing livelyfoundation@sbcglobal.net Taught by Leslie Friedman. She has taught ballet companies in Europe, China, US […]

Contact Improvisation-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam: Beyond Saudade

Contact Improvisation-inspired online dancing can create moments of great creativity, discovery, playfulness, learning, physicality, and connection. And it can teach us things we can use to deepen our practice of […]

Expanding Expressions: Madhuri Kishore brings Kuchipudi to the Landscape of Bay Area Indian Dance

Madhuri Kishore School of Kuchipudi / photo courtesy of school Traversing the landscape of Indian dance forms practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area, it can be easy for the […]

Welcome

Size matters, mostly. I like my encounters to feel big and bold. In a space where bodies defy expectations in size, ability, race, and gender, while providing intimate physical moments […]

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 […]

The Complexities and Contradictions of Awards Ceremonies

Mikhail Baryshnikov has a slew of honors to include in his biography, and for years listed prominently the “Bessie,” or New York Dance and Performance Award, which he was given […]

Did You Know? Highlighting the Activities of Artists/Organizations in Our Region

Stanford alumnae Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram and Usha Srinivasan founded Sangam Arts—Sangam meaning “Confluence” in Sanskrit—in May 2013 to help create and nurture strong intercultural connections between the Indian diaspora and the […]

Move and Be Moved During Bay Area Dance Week

Each year hundreds of dance organizations, companies, schools and artists open up their doors and invite the public—you!—to attend an event, completely free of charge, during Bay area dance Week (BADW). dancers’ group […]

It Happens In the Studio: Talking Trends and Technique with Five Artists Who Teach

Over my 20+ years of teaching, I’ve seen different trends and styles come and go. I’ve watched modern dancers go in and out of dedicated periods of ballet training. I’ve seen yoga […]