In Their Way: Ten Years of the Women on the Way Festival

In 1999, Mary Alice Fry became frustrated while running an arts space in SOMA called Venue 9. For several years she had been producing local women artists in a series […]

In Practice: Holding Wait with Jo Kreiter

On a rainy afternoon in March, I met with Jo Kreiter, choreographer, artist-activist, and artistic director of Flyaway Productions, in a rehearsal space at Project Artaud, behind the Joe Goode […]

Contact Improvisers Consider #metoo

The West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam in Berkeley (wcciJAM) has been a hub for the investigation of the form for over 25 years. Contact Improvisation (CI), which grew out 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, […]

Putting Down Roots and Raising Voices: Black Women Leaders at the Dance/USA Conference

Black people have this unspoken greeting out in public: the nod.

Musing on Merce: The Bay Area Remembers Cunningham

Merce Cunningham’s relationship with the Bay Area was deep and career-spanning, so on the eve of his company’s final performances at UC Berkeley, Claudia Bauer asked several local artists to […]

Dancing Masculinity

This month Scott Wells and Dancers turns fifteen. Looking back on my first choreographic effort, I realize I’ve come full circle. The first dance I ever made was a duet […]

10 People on 10 Years of Dance Generators in San Francisco

Dance Generators was founded in Massachusetts in 1997 by Amie Dowling, a former member of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. In 2006, Dowling relocated to San Francisco, and in 2007 […]

Artist & Educator Li Chiao-Ping Comes Full Circle, Apr 2007

An interview with internationally renowned artist and Bay Area native Li Chiao-Ping about her new professorship at Mills College and her upcoming performance “Home Works.”

Stepping to the Beat of a Different Fiddle with the Barbary Coast Cloggers

As the first high notes of fiddle fill the air, a group of twelve men in jeans and flannel shirts begin to clap rhythmically. A banjo joins the fiddle, and […]