Keep the Reels Rolling; Why the Bay Area Should Fight to Keep Dance/Screen

San Francisco Performances has pulled the plug on its Dance/Screen series of film and video presentations, curated for the last 9 years by Charlotte Shoemaker. “It was a matter of […]

WestWave Dance Festival Artists Speak

In addition to our interview with Joanna Haigood, we asked the 45 artists participating in this year’s DanceWaves and Film Night to offer up a first person perspective—or in grant-speak, […]

LENORA LEE: Sharing Stories Through Dance and Film

The pair of programs Lenora Lee will present September 26 – October 5 at Dance Mission as her company’s 7th season will be a good opportunity to be introduced to […]

San Francisco Trans Film Festival: Call for Submissions

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) seeks entries for our 2024 Festival (November 13-24, 2024 at Roxie Theater in San Francisco, CA and online via Eventive). This year we […]

San Francisco Dance Film Festival: Spring Fling 2024: Premiere Screening, Performance & Party

Saturday’s program features the eagerly anticipated premiere of SFDFF’s Co-Laboratory film “Intimité Révélée,” a fresh collaboration between SFDFF, Ballet22 and a creative team led by Artistic Director Lorris Eichinger, Director […]

Artists in Exile: Latina Immigrants’ Stories Through Flamenco

After reaching almost fifteen years in exile and noticing the increasing number of fellow Venezuelan immigrants across the US and the world, I pondered the question of how to encapsulate a displaced legacy.

Ad Infinitum Identities: The work of Pseuda & Kim Ip

Pseuda can be seen from a stage, holding two metal chain ropes attached to the limbs of another body. A doll, a dancer, Kim Ip. It’s Halloween, 2015, at B4bel4b Gallery, and the audience doesn’t yet know that Kim and Pseuda are chained together until they begin to stretch away, the chains syncing a nexus between bodies.

In Conversation Archive

In Conversation is a series of interviews exploring discourse about dance and different folks’ relationship to dance. All Audio Recorded and Edited by Andréa Spearman 2022 Fall Spring Winter 2021 […]

In Conversation: David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes

You are reading excerpts from David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes’ recorded conversation. Listen to the conversation. Transcript of the full conversation

San Francisco Dance Film Festival: The Vault: Bay Area Legends

San Francisco Dance Film Festival honors four Bay Area choreographers – Ellen Bromberg, Joe Goode, Margaret Jenkins, and Brenda Way – and the filmmakers with whom they created historic dance […]