Peninsula Ballet Theatre: Peninsula International Dance Festival

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural world dance and music festival, the Peninsula International Dance Festival 2023 returns with an all-new, two-day festival July 15 and 16, with […]

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Celebrates 40 Years

  This July, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival will return to the War Memorial Opera House for its 40th anniversary as the largest, longest-running, and most comprehensive world dance […]

Stepping Out of Your Niche

One of the lures of San Francisco in the 70’s for me was its robust number of world dance practitioners. Contemporary choreographers were entering a significantly pluralistic era. San Francisco […]

Teach to Inspire: Takami Craddock and Corrine Nagata on Teaching Kids

I’ve had the wonderful privilege to work with some amazing choreographers and dancers throughout my dancing life, but to be truly honest, the people who have inspired me the most have […]

WCCIJAM 2013: Talking Bay Area Contact Improvisation, Past Present & Future

Every year for over 25 years, about 200 dancers come together sometime around the 4th of July, in the Sawtooth Building in Berkeley, for The West Coast Contact Improv Jam. […]

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 […]

Amplifying Our Voices: Advocating for Dance

As the national service organization for the field of professional dance, Dance/USA represents dance groups across the United States in front of Congress, the White House and Federal agencies. The […]

SPEAK: Robert Moses

On arriving in San Francisco in 1985 and on my way to audition for ODC (Oberlin Dance Collective) I saw an addict noodling with a needle in his arm on […]

Revealing the Secret History: A Conversation with Sean Dorsey

San Francisco’s Sean Dorsey Dance has racked up a nice trophy case: a Goldie, a pair of Izzies, a “Best Dance-Performance Company” nod from SF Weekly, a 2010 Dance Magazine […]

Heartistry Video Series, Ep 3: Social Change through heARTivism

Noorani Dance presents: Heartistry Video Series, Episode 3: Social Change through heARTivism (part 2) Featuring: Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, Valarie Kaur, Annette Philip, Alicia Nascimento, Athena Nair, Aysha Upchurch, Brinda Guha & Nadhi Thekkek In our last episode in April, we brought […]