Ten Tips for Individual Appeal Letters

At some point in our careers as artists we come face-to-face with fundraising for our creative projects. This can be thrilling and exhilarating—serving as a rite-of-passage into the next phase […]

Dynamic Adaptability: Change Management, Design Thinking, Failure, Power and the Participatory Ghetto

However in museums working with artists, the assumption that no one should understand the artist is frowned upon and therefore a different attitude about how to build the engagement. With […]

Studio 210 Winter 2021 Residency Performance

Join Studio 210 and Deborah Slater Dance Theater at this virtual performance event by our Winter 2021 Residents: Cynthia Ling Lee and Bahiya Movement! The performance will be a culmination […]

Teaching Honestly, Teaching Fearlessly: Two Decades of Luna

About halfway to this 20th landmark of Luna Dance Institute, I was asked to speak on a panel about careers in dance. During the Q&A, my mentor and teacher, June […]

Grief and Patience: An Interview with Choreographer Stephen Pelton

IN MARCH, Stephen Pelton Dance Theatre returns to San Francisco after seven years with a new, full-length work Lauda Adrianna. I recently had a FaceTime with Stephen from his home […]

MAP-MAKER: Katy Warner and the LINES Dance Center Celebrate 25 years of Dance Education

THE QUEST TO CAPTURE the illusion of flight is a defining tenet for any ballerina, yet Katy Warner, founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, has experienced the real thing. […]

Luna Dance & Creativity: Professional Learning Manager

Luna seeks to hire a Professional Learning (PL) Manager to oversee the various activities of our PL Department. Since 1994, Luna’s PL services have convened teaching artists, classroom teachers, community […]

Sanctuary Spaces: FRESH Festival Artists Violeta Luna and Roberto Varea Plan Empathy and Disruption Across Borders

FRESH Festival. Photo by Robbie Sweeny. “We were thinking about a number of other things,” says Roberto Varea when I ask him about what he and collaborator Violeta Luna have planned […]

Reconnecting With Your Body: ‘Statue of Strength’ and other trauma-informed tools empower refugees

We’re born to move, but how we move is dependent on us as individuals and our circumstances.

Myth Shattering

Dancers’ Group’s executive director looks at the attitude of abundance vs. scarcity and asks donations in support of the Parachute Fund.