Silk Worm: The Jaws of All Are Red with Gore

Attention! Looney Tunes lovers, theater kids, and silly wabbits seeking revenge—this show is for you. San Francisco-based artist and drag queen Silk Worm presents a world premiere. The jaws of […]

A Time to Dance

19th Annual Spring Dance Festival Celebrating National Dance Week with a free weeklong virtual dance festival. sjDANCEco will be sending out one email per day, highlighting dances each day from […]

Diablo Ballet: Cinderella’s Wedding

This February, Diablo Ballet celebrates the new year with the second program of their season, Cinderella’s Wedding.  The program features the glorious world premiere of Cinderella’s Wedding choreographed by Julia Adam and accompanied […]

I Want This Instead.

Tim Rubel Human Shakes presents: I Want This Instead. Choreography by Tim Rubel. In collaboration with dancers Derek DiMartini, Dalton Alexander Valerio, and Hannah Westbrook. Lighting Design by Maxx Kurzunski. […]

The Art of the Possible: Increase funding for the arts in 2008

It has been four years since the California Arts Council’s (CAC) budget was drastically cut by 94% leaving our state at the bottom of the nation in per capita spending […]

Looking at Home From Both Sides of the Equator

For the past two summers I have traveled to Peru through the University of San Francisco’s Community Connections. I work as Adjunct Faculty in the USF Dance Program, which is […]

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 […]

Kathy Mata Ballet to Perform at the SF Conservatory of Music

By David B. Feldman What does Kathy Mata Ballet, a small San-Francisco-based community dance company, have in common with the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma and world-renown operatic tenor Placido Domingo? […]

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 […]

Finding Inspiration: ODC Forges New Partnerships

1. A point is that which has no part. 2. A line is breadthless length. 3. The ends of a line are points. 4. A straight line is a line […]