You Can Go Home Again

A preview of an upcoming performance by Karole Armitage Gone! Dance Company presented by San Francisco Performances at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

When Dance Hits Music: Two choreographers and a string quartet creatively collide in “StringWreck”

“Charlie and I recognize that we might be inviting catastrophe in terms of trying new things with new people in new situations where there’s just very little known ground,” says […]

Dance In San Francisco; Observations and Attitudes

The following article was published in Movement Research Journal #31, Summer 2007, New York City. San Francisco, the left coast, the endpoint of western expansion and escape. Being a port […]

Dance Film Comes of Age

A look at the marriage of dance and film. Stephanie Linakis explores this artistic shift, who it interests, and which events in the upcoming year will highlight the use of this medium.

Lighting Artists in Dance

Announcing the 2019 Lighting Artists for Dance Grant Recipients In its 12th year, the Lighting Artists in Dance program provides lighting designers access to funds that will support artistic collaborations with […]

Dance Discourse Project #2

Investigating the Post Multi-Culturalism Landscape Sherwood Chen and Mary Armentrout spoke with Danny Kalanduyan, Teela Shine Ross, Prumsodun Ok, and Joti Singh. In this second installment of an ongoing series, […]

Dance Discourse Project #1

Bay Area Dance: Who Are We Now? Mary Armentrout spoke with Keith Hennessy, Jez Kuono`ono Lee, Laura Elaine Ellis, and paige starling sorvillo. In this first installment of a ongoing […]

Bay Area Dance Week

April 26 – May 5, 2024 all dance, all free, all week   Explore 150+ free events 10 days of free classes, performances, and more, all over the Bay Area. […]

Working in The Garage: Tools to Help Carve Out Space for Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance has a long history of being developed on the fringes of the cultural landscape. Choreographers have traditionally found space to make new work in basements, lofts, parking structures […]

Moving Arts is Moving Up: New Space in the East Bay

A drive through the industrial parks on Whitman Road in Concord looks, frankly, unpromising. But dance has a way of making a home in the unlikeliest of places, and out […]