Studies on Aging Performing Artists

The following is a reprinting of an executive summary written on an ongoing research project regarding aging artists in America, what the project has been finding, and where the research […]

Documenting Dance Learning in Schools

I started teaching dance as a bit of a fluke. Just a week after moving to San Francisco, I jumped into teaching, replacing a dance teacher who had left the […]

Vantage Points

“When you’re watching a performer of any art, don’t you find yourself constantly wondering about the ‘real’ person behind the art? I do, all the time. My dance reveals that […]

Driving the Ethnic Dance Festival: Behind the Scenes with Julie Mushet

At the Fort Mason Center, located in the windy northern part of San Francisco, I sat down with Executive Director Julie Mushet in the World Arts West (WAW) office. Accompanying […]

SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance

I’ve been thinking a lot about how dance occupies this space between the arts and sports and wondering how we as a community could exploit that more. I’m in the […]

Making Video Make Sense

Jessica Robinson focuses on the merging of film and live performance and how this movement affects the futures of these art forms.

Dispersing the Diaspora: Excerpts from the CounterPULSE Blog

Edited by Maureen Walsh Traversing personal and cultural borders are two topics that the Performing Diaspora artists, staff and audience are talking about. I’ve sifted though the CounterPULSE blog, selecting […]

Brown and Rauschenberg: Forays into Collaboration

Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art September 24, 2009 Jeff James, Howard Gilman Director of the Hopkins Center for the Arts: Welcome to a conversation between […]

Respect Your Roots; Contact Improv and the Blues

The following is an abridged excerpt from a forthcoming book on Contact Improvisation by long-time Bay Area teacher and Contact pioneer John LeFan.

Rotunda Dance Series

The Rotunda Dance Series program has been sunsetted.   Watch Excerpts from Rotunda Performances! Previous Artists: Robert Moses’ Kin (Feb 2020) Press Release here (pdf) Watch excerpt Nava Dance Theatre (Nov […]