Conversations with Anna Halprin

Photo by Rick Chapman As surely everyone must know by now, Anna Halprin turns 100 on July 13, 2020. Just as her work has celebrated the dancer in every body, […]

The Body Politic: Baroque Dance Speaks Truth to Power in The Temple of Glory

Dance has never been more political than it is today, with artists creating work on themes of feminism, racism, inequality, violence and the fight for justice. The issues may be topical, […]

Ms, Fs, and As, Oh My! Life After Graduate School, The Transition Awaiting

ON JUNE 13, 2010 I graduated from The Ohio State University with an M.F.A. in Dance. I moved to San Francisco on June 18. This transition has been an education […]

Beauty in Search of a Resting Place

Does an artist have a responsibility to anything or anyone other than their whim?

Stretching Across the Urban Jungle: ONSITE Presents Katie Faulkner’s We Don’t Belong Here

On the heels of an ambitious four-choreographer collaboration with Kara Davis, Manuelito Biag, and Alex Ketley, Katie Faulkner is not only stretching herself as an artist, but is now literally […]

Dancing Diplomacy; One Woman’s Journey to the Heart of Kathak

The traditional Kathak solo is alive and well. In India? Maybe not. But in California, yes! In 1992, I wandered into Pandit Chitresh Das’ Kathak class at SFSU when I […]

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.

A Banana Peel is Good for Headaches: Observations from the Traditional Arts Field

Between dinner and dessert one evening, Doba G., a medical doctor in her late seventies who emigrated from the Ukraine to San Francisco in 1993, gave me a tip: Lily: […]

John Jasperse in the Bay Area: Gaps, Misuse, and the Possibility of Thick Description

John Jasperse is a choreographer known as: Cool. Brainy. Provocative. Naked. Virtuosic. Transgressive. Austere. Opaque. Difficult. Formal. Experimental. Critical. Ironic. Oblique. Pensive. Part of the witty, cerebral downtown New York […]

Kinetech Arts and ODC Theater Co-Present: Passage

Kinetech Arts and ODC Theater Co-Present: Passage Saturday, October 23, 2021, 5-9 PM PT; Sunday, October 24, 2021, 2-6 PM PT *Audience members are invited to enter the space every 30 minutes […]