For The Love of Dance: A Community Remembers Victor Anderson (Aug 10, 1928-Feb 7, 2017)

It is a delicate task to write about a private person. And Victor Anderson, co-founder of the Shawl Anderson Dance Center, who died on February 7 at the age of […]

Dance Discourse Project #23

Visioning a More Human Dwelling Place Saturday, Dec 3, 2016, 3p, doors open at 2:30pm at the NEW Counterpulse, 80 Turk St, SF FREE – RSVP here: counterpulse.org The precise role of […]

CounterPulse’s Next Ten

TEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME. Since 2005, I got married, finished graduate research, moved across the country twice and adopted a puppy. And those are just some of the […]

Israel Gone Gaga: Batsheva to the Max

Float. Pull your bones. Smear your flesh on the ground. Connect to your pleasure. Quake. Stretch your face. Find the snake in your spine. Put a good taste in your […]

Discussing Peruvian Dance with Miguel Sanchez of Asociación Cultural Kanchis

After a life spent traveling through Peru and writing the massive five-volume history, El Peru, the 19th century Italian naturalist and explorer Antonio Raimondi was said to have believed that […]

SPEAK By Patty Berne

“A performance project on disability and sexuality? Really? Why? I mean, I never really thought that handicapped people have sex!” — anonymous observation #132 Blunt truth be told, we do […]

Revealing the Process

When someone joins the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee (The Izzies), they’re usually pleasantly surprised. Instead of a mysterious, shadowy group they will find a group of individuals like themselves—passionate […]

Outside Looking In; The ESP Project Explores Separation and Incarceration in 51802, Sept 2007

Preview of ESP Project’s upcoming dance-theater performance around the emotional implications of having a loved one in prison.

A Conversation with Bill T. Jones

IN LATE AUGUST, I had the distinct honor of interviewing Bill T. Jones while he was enjoying a brief respite from his slate of touring, artistic direction and impresario-sized intellectual […]

A Conversation with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

The following is an exchange between former Urban Bush Women Associate Artistic Director and dancer Amara Tabor Smith and Urban Bush Women’s founder and Director, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Zollar […]