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For dance teaching artists who teach in school settings, this is usually a busy time of year. School classes have begun and although kids have settled into their daily school […]

It seems that dance should be the one place where the pleasure of the body is paramount—that the basis of dancing should be how we inhabit our bodies and the […]

Right now all you can see is beams and plywood walls, but by early 2008 the Oakland Noodle Factory should be a pipe dream made real. Imagine this: eleven live-work […]

After seeing Alex Ketley’s Careless at last summer’s WestWave Dance Festival, audience members might have wondered who were the cast’s athletic and daring creatures that made up the San Francisco […]

The roster of artists for the 29th San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF) can read like a delectable menu for feasting, but the real heart of the festival is to […]

It is 1992 and Katherine Dunham, the renowned dance artist and anthropologist has begun a hunger strike. The woman whose performing career is synonymous with theatricalizing African dance for the […]

“A dancer’s life is a realist’s life,” says the woman onstage in a weary, regal voice. Standing in a dramatically pooled spotlight that glitters off her spangled dress and causes […]

Deborah Hay is a hard one to catch. Years ago, she used to roll into town, often in the summer, and have a quiet interlude at Dancers’ Group/Footwork. She’d offer […]

Dancers who improvise together are onto something. We muster every bit of social intelligence and multidisciplinary craft to invent new worlds. The Bay Area is rich with improvisational forms. Among […]

Many mid-career dance artists reach a moment in their careers when the next step is not apparent. Dance is not a career that is easily left behind. It is a […]