Alonzo King LINES Ballet: World Premiere Collaboration with Lisa Fischer

Alonzo King LINES Ballet kicks off its 40th Anniversary season with the world premiere of a new work featuring Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer performing live alongside the LINES Ballet […]

Silicon Valley Dance Festival: Renewal

ZiRu Dance announces the Third Annual Silicon Valley Dance Festival, entitled Renewal, presented via livestream December 19-20 and continuing on demand through January 3. Renewal is a year-long project of ZiRu […]

US in the U.S.: What Had Happened Was…

Follow a young, orphaned African American woman as she wades through emptiness, disrespect, and anxiety toward a joyous future. Will she ever get there, and how the heck is she […]

Full Out Studios: 5th Annual Winter Ball

Full Out Studios 5th Annual Winter Ball “There’s No Place Like Home” Winter Ball is here and it’s back at Full Out Studios! We’re excited to have everyone come back […]

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: World Premiere Collaboration with Lisa Fischer

Alonzo King LINES Ballet kicks off its 40th Anniversary season with the world premiere of a new work featuring Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer performing live alongside the LINES Ballet […]

POSTPONED – HOMEBODY

At this time, Kickbal has postponed their upcoming performance. Kickbal directors Emma Lanier and Ky Frances present the world premiere of HOMEBODY, an evening-length work featuring five dancers and an original […]

Curating a Collision

“It is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determine the place and the stakes of politics as a […]

Major celebrations and successes meet the usual challenges of presenting new work

This past year was a time of big birthdays, initiatives, celebrations, and rebuilding in Bay Area dance. Outshining all in historical import, ambition, publicity, and yes, hype—some perpetuated by this […]

SPEAK: BLACK CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL: In the Spirit of Sankofa

THE MOTTO for the Black Choreographers Festival (BCF)—Keeping the Vision For-ward—is at the core of all that we plan, curate, and present. The summer of 2003 began two years of […]

Leading the Dance Field Through Change

During my first few months as the executive director of Dance/USA, I engaged dance leaders from around the country in conversations about the state of the field. What are they […]