San Francisco Ballet: Starry Nights

San Francisco Ballet returns to the Stanford Live Arts Festival to present Starry Nights, following the success of the Company’s Frost Amphitheater debut in 2021. Featuring Jerome Robbins’ In the Night, Helgi […]

Smuin Contemporary Ballet: Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin

Smuin Contemporary Ballet wraps up its 28th season with the vibrant program, Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin, featuring four diverse ballets from established dancemakers and rising choreographic voices, with performances in […]

In Conversation with Latanya Tigner and Colette Eloi

You are listening to Part 1 & 2 from Andréa Spearman’s recorded conversation with Latanya Tigner and Colette Eloi. To read the transcript of Part 1 of the conversation, click […]

Jazz: Digging Deeper

If I want to educate dancers about Jazz, I need to create the space for the Early Jazz experience to transpire within my classes.

Smuin Contemporary Ballet: Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin

Smuin Contemporary Ballet wraps up its 28th season with the vibrant program, Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin, featuring four diverse ballets from established dancemakers and rising choreographic voices, with performances in […]

Tracing Roots: A Perspective on Indian Contemporary Dance

I came to the US from India in 2003 to attain my BA in Dance from San Jose State University.

My Roots of Movement

Navigating a career in a Eurocentric, White-centralizing, contemporary dance world as a lesbian Latinx woman of mixed Indigenous blood never felt complicated until it started to.

We Write Ourselves as We Move

I was born in the early 1980s in the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, to a nurse and a lawyer.

Cancelled – Spirit of Brazil ’21

*Event Cancelled due to weather. San Francisco International Arts Festival will present a combination live in-person and livestream program that culminates in a two-day outdoor program to take place at […]

10 in 10 Video Series

10 questions in 10 minutes. Quick insights with the local Bay Area dance community. Prior to Covid, I had often thought of producing a “(wo)man on the street”-style series where […]