Who to See When Your Body Needs Support: Health Resources for Dancers

This list of health care providers has been compiled in part with the help of dance companies in the Bay Area who provided recommendations, with additions from Dancers’ Group. It […]

Glimpses of Nijinsky…100 Years Later

Much celebrated this year is the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Paris-based company that changed the face of dance in the twentieth century, as well as having […]

Dancing with Jiajia on the Spine of the Temple of Heaven

THIS PAST DECEMBER I was selected as one of seven American choreographers to engage in a cultural exchange in China, a program of ZiRu Productions and Dancers’ Group—with financial support […]

New View: Emiko Ono

What brought you to the Bay Area? My first move to the Bay Area was to attend UC Berkeley. I spent my first year in a state of culture shock. […]

Crafting Chaos; Davidson Brings us Closer to Collapse

Review of Side Show Physical Theatre’s new piece “Collapse (suddenly falling down)”

Family in Site

Panching Photo by Jessica Swanson. [ID: Panching, an elder Filipina, is in profile to the camera. She looks out a window of an historic house at Fort Barry with a […]

Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art […]

New Art Things in a New Art Space: KUNST-STOFF’s Home

FIVE STORIES ABOVE A HIP SHOE STORE and the hustle of tourists, shoppers and panhandlers in downtown San Francisco there is a long calm room filled with light and 2500 […]

Flamenco Moving on Two Paths

Flamencologists tell us that the art of Flamenco was nurtured for centuries among the gitano (gypsy) families of Andalucia, but not performed in public until the mid-nineteenth century, and not […]

Black Ballerinas in Picture Books: Rupturing the Color Line in American Children’s Literature

As a Black girlhood studies scholar, I pay close attention to picture books that portray Black girls. More specifically, I intersect dance studies and children’s literary studies in order to explore the representation of Black ballerinas in autobiographical and biographical children’s picture books.