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I, What, We, How: Ruminations on Community
I feel In quiet moments I begin to notice things that are sensual, things that are always, and my thoughts like fascia holding everything together. I experience my city-home of […]
Ruminations on the Ecology of Our Community
If I may be so bold, the Bay Area upholds a handsomely gifted dance community. One of the region’s greater strengths is in our interconnection, our solid network that weaves […]
Across State Lines—New Direction, Comes New Information
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and after three years of focusing on navigating the rocky shores of academic life, I have […]
Art Meets Life: The 30th Annual Planetary Dance
At the end of the movie Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock’s character tearfully confesses that she really does want world peace. Okay, it’s a little silly—and I’m not embarrassed to admit […]
Welcome, June 2010
Certain smells elicit a flood of memories and summer seems to hold an inordinate share of these olfactory remembrances. Heat is most likely a contributing factor and this month I […]
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 […]
One Sunday at a Time
To describe 2nd Sundays, I often use our tag line: A free salon where artists share work and dialogue with the audience and fellow artists. After watching the program grow […]
Technological Conversations: Talking About New Work with Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa
When meeting Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa to talk about their new collaboration tribes/dominion premiering at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on May 20, my goal was to […]
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, […]
Central Market Arts: New Fall Festival Picks Up in the Mid-Market Corridor
IT IS A LONG-STANDING argument that maintaining strong creative and artistic cultural presence is a pivotal part of a flourishing culture. This argument has been used to fight for arts […]