Dance Educators Create Systemic Change

Dance teachers create change. Daily we enter classrooms, centers, and studios motivated to share our passion with students who eagerly await the chance to move and liberate their bodies. In […]

Leading the Dance Field Through Change

During my first few months as the executive director of Dance/USA, I engaged dance leaders from around the country in conversations about the state of the field. What are they […]

ONSITE: House/Full of BlackWomen

Amara Tabor-Smith, Ellen Sebastian Chang and Dancers’ Group present:   The 14th Episode of House/Full of BlackWomen New Chitlin Circuitry: Reparations Vaudeville   House/Full of BlackWomen is a site specific […]

1519’s Curtain Call: Pivotal Queer Art Performance Space Closes

THE LONG-RUNNING PERFORMANCE SPACE at 1519 Mission, in San Francisco, went dark at the beginning of August. Like many alternative art spaces, 1519 never held permits to accommodate larger audiences, […]

In Conversation with Erik Lee

I’m very much so interested in this idea of opening new – it’s not a reopening, I’m not trying to return to the way things were before – I’m really invested in how we move forward.

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]

Creative Thinking: Graduate Students Embark from Saint Mary’s College

As a faculty member at Saint Mary’s College of California and the director of the Creative Practice MFA in Dance program, I am excited to announce our first graduating class who […]

Welcome, Jul/Aug 2014

Every now and again we are privileged to have an experience that makes such an impact—sometimes good and sometimes hard—that it shifts how we see things. Whether it’s a dance work […]

Finding Center Between East and West: A Conversation with Tara Catherine Pandeya

When Tara Catherine Pandeya first landed in Tajikistan last year, she only planned to spend a month in the country. Almost 11 months later, she lives in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital, […]

One on One: For Christy Funsch One is Never a Lonely Number

Rarely do audiences experience a dance performance more than once, however Christy Funsch gives dance-goers a second chance with the ephemeral, time-based, and fleeting art form in her upcoming retrospective […]