Zaccho Dance Theatre’s Aerial Arts Festival

An extraordinary public event approaches. Thrill seekers, arts enthusiasts, hard to please skeptics, this spectacle will not disappoint. Come August – if the crisp, bay breeze at Fort Mason Center […]

Walking Backwards

I love dancers. More than actually dancing or dance itself, I love dancers.

ODC’s Kaleidoscope of Outreach

When I sat down to talk about outreach with ODC artistic director KT Nelson, school director Kimi Okada, and outreach coordinator Annie Jupiter-Jones on a sunny morning at ODC’s Shotwell […]

The Art of Watching: An Investigation Into Response & Criticism

A dance piece has two lives: there is the process culminating in the performance, and then there is the reception after the performance. And while much attention is focused on […]

Dance Theater on the Eve of the Election

“It’s just been very intriguing to me, I didn’t plan it this way: it always seems as if the support and the interest of the venues seem to come forward […]

Toward and Away: Strengthening Family Bonds Through Creative Dance

At a community resource center in Berkeley, a young child and her mother are dancing together, playing the “freeze dance” game with the rest of the class. The young child […]

Love ONSITE: Finding Love Everywhere in San Francisco

Anyone lucky enough to be at San Francisco’s City Hall on February 12, 2004, witnessed something extraordinary: The legal marriages of same-sex couples as well as heterosexual ones—along with the […]

ODC’s Next Move

Consider what the dance scene would have been like had financial and cultural power never consolidated in New York City. Rather, what if New York had remained just another East […]

A Lifetime Of Achievement for Lily Cai

The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and as part of the festivities, the Festival will be awarding the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement award […]

Dance Educators Descend on Alabama

A re-cap of this year’s annual National Dance Education Association Conference in Alabama.