Contact Improvisation-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam: Beyond Saudade

Contact Improvisation-inspired online dancing can create moments of great creativity, discovery, playfulness, learning, physicality, and connection. And it can teach us things we can use to deepen our practice of […]

Expanding Expressions: Madhuri Kishore brings Kuchipudi to the Landscape of Bay Area Indian Dance

Madhuri Kishore School of Kuchipudi / photo courtesy of school Traversing the landscape of Indian dance forms practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area, it can be easy for the […]

Welcome

Size matters, mostly. I like my encounters to feel big and bold. In a space where bodies defy expectations in size, ability, race, and gender, while providing intimate physical moments […]

Did You Know? Highlighting the Activities of Artists/Organizations in Our Region

Stanford alumnae Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram and Usha Srinivasan founded Sangam Arts—Sangam meaning “Confluence” in Sanskrit—in May 2013 to help create and nurture strong intercultural connections between the Indian diaspora and the […]

The Diversity of Authorship: In Conversation with Hope Mohr

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR? How many times have you been asked this classic ‘get to know you’ question? Perhaps it was on a first date, at a new job, […]

Move and Be Moved During Bay Area Dance Week

Each year hundreds of dance organizations, companies, schools and artists open up their doors and invite the public—you!—to attend an event, completely free of charge, during Bay area dance Week (BADW). dancers’ group […]

It Happens In the Studio: Talking Trends and Technique with Five Artists Who Teach

Over my 20+ years of teaching, I’ve seen different trends and styles come and go. I’ve watched modern dancers go in and out of dedicated periods of ballet training. I’ve seen yoga […]

Advocacy: Anywhere and Anytime

Advocacy has long been one of those big, broad words whose definition I knew in theory, but I’d never experienced it firsthand to gain true insight into its meaning—and outcomes. In imagining what my first […]

June 2014

Welcome, June 2014 by Wayne Hazzard From Kathakali to Kathak: Eight Indian Classical Genres at the 2014 SF Ethnic Dance Festival by David Roche Building Digital Parallelity for the Performing Arts: […]

10 Tips to Publicize Your Work

In a world where press, social media and electronic communications prevail and sometimes collide, there are more options than ever to promote or publicize who you are and what you […]