Big Dreams, Small Screen: Tuning Into Dance Reality Shows

IT’S BROUGHT US SCHEMING Survivors, sadistic restaurateurs and women intent on marrying millionaires they’ve never met. And reality TV is now dance’s biggest venue, with shows like So You Think […]

In Conversation

In Conversation is a series of interviews exploring intergenerational conversations about dance and different folks’ relationship to dance. I’ve been thinking a lot about consequential strangers, or the people in […]

Giving Momentum to Community: Artistic Residency Programs in San Francisco

Choreographers are not alone in the search for space and time to work on their craft. The unique challenge for dancers, however, becomes finding organizations that “get it”—the creative process […]

The Studios of Milk and Honey: Gaga Moving Up and Out of Tel Aviv

One of my teachers put it best, “It’s a language. Technique is something you do. A language is something you learn and becomes a part of your life.” I moved […]

Hearan Chung’s Eternal Dance: Review: February 23, 2008

I first met Hearan Chung six years ago. The dancer, recently arrived from South Korea, was living with her two children in an apartment in Millbrae, and I drove down […]

Movement Exchange: Building a Model for Sustainable Dance Diplomacy

MOVEMENT EXCHANGE is a San Francisco based non-profit that organizes service-focused dance exchanges to Panama with the objective of using dance and dance education as a tool for creating sustainable […]

The Diversity of Authorship: In Conversation with Hope Mohr

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR? How many times have you been asked this classic ‘get to know you’ question? Perhaps it was on a first date, at a new job, […]

Dance and Flower: dNaga’s peace about life: Dancing with Parkinson’s

We dancers demand an impossibly high degree of control—over our muscles, our bones, our emotions. We strive to defy powers greater than ourselves (gravity, for starters) and to outwit random […]

In Practice: Meet Talli Jackson

Photo by Eric Polizer I grew up in Brooklyn (New York, not Wisconsin; if you think the clarification is unnecessary, you’ve never been to Wisconsin). And this is what it […]

Looking at Home From Both Sides of the Equator

For the past two summers I have traveled to Peru through the University of San Francisco’s Community Connections. I work as Adjunct Faculty in the USF Dance Program, which is […]