ONSITE: Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat

95 Rituals was a site-specific performance work by Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat, dedicated to Anna Halprin, a visionary artist whose work radically expanded the purpose, process, and content of dance-making over seven decades. 95 Rituals […]

Welcome

THE RANGE AND QUALITY OF DANCE PERFORMANCES presented in the Bay Area continues to expand, and that’s the truly good news, but the challenge remains that all too frequently, many […]

FEEL THE BEAT: Sharing Dances from the African Diaspora

FALL MAY BE THE SEASON to enjoy colorful leaves and chilly air, but this November is the time to delight in the color and power of dances from the African […]

Did you know? Mix’d Ingrdnts

EVERY NOVEMBER, Micaya and the San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest present its dynamic weekend of performances by artists and companies from around the world, highlighting an incredible range of […]

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: Jo Kreiter Brings Attention to Older Homeless Women

Isadora Duncan Award-winning choreographer Jo Kreiter draws from a variety of disciplines and lenses: gymnastics, Chinese pole acrobatics, social justice and urban revitalization, to name a few. Along with her apparatus-based aerial dance […]

On Gender and Performance: Six Statements by Six Artists

Comments by Akram Khan in January about women in the dance world(1) sparked a flurry of responses, both online and in publications. Dancers’ Group has decided to examine this topic more carefully […]

A Conversation on Women in the Arts

Patty Berne is a co-founder and executive director of Sins Invalid (sinsinvalid.org), a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with […]

Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers

When we look at a Degas painting we are entranced by beautiful ballet dancers, but take a look behind the scenes and a different story is revealed of these women’s […]

SPEAK: Shifting the Paradigm

Many of us teaching artists have unwittingly become stuck in dangerous perceptual habits. While this is happening across all levels of education, I want to focus on the issues of college […]

Excerpts From The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece

Editor’s note: Working to fulfill our creative dreams can be daunting at times and finding ways to navigate the ebb and flow of this journey can provide a newfound energy […]