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Major celebrations and successes meet the usual challenges of presenting new work
This past year was a time of big birthdays, initiatives, celebrations, and rebuilding in Bay Area dance. Outshining all in historical import, ambition, publicity, and yes, hype—some perpetuated by this […]
Berkeley Folk Dancers: 74th Annual Festival of the Oaks
The 74th annual international Festival of the Oaks features a morning international folk dance workshop, a hot lunch, exhibition dance performance, and a program of afternoon recreational dances. Includes a […]
MOVING INTERNATIONALLY: A Creative and Cultural Journey
TWO HUNDRED MEN AND WOMEN dancing in neat rows to Chinese music projected over a speaker at a neighborhood park sparked my curiosity about dance in Shanghai, China. I joined […]
From Stage to Screen; Bromberg Forges New Directions, July/ Aug 2007
An interview with the University of Utah’s Assistant Professor of Modern Dance on her focus career and the upcoming Dancers’ Group International Dance Film Screening in SF.
Giving Momentum to Community: Artistic Residency Programs in San Francisco
Choreographers are not alone in the search for space and time to work on their craft. The unique challenge for dancers, however, becomes finding organizations that “get it”—the creative process […]
Cultivating Freedom and Power in the Dance Classroom
I’m watching my two year old dance. He’s spinning fast, letting the full skirt of his dancing dress ripple around him, arms splayed, eyes closed. He sometimes spirals into the […]
Welcome, Jul/Aug 2014
Every now and again we are privileged to have an experience that makes such an impact—sometimes good and sometimes hard—that it shifts how we see things. Whether it’s a dance work […]
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 […]
Dancing Through a Jewish Lens
How does being Jewish shape our lives and our work as dance artists? What do we have to contribute from a Jewish perspective? Just as I was finding my voice as a […]
In Practice: Nina Haft & Company’s Precarious Pod
Photo by Pak Han When I was dancing with Nina Haft in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Jewish themes were prevalent. She made a dance called Minyan that derived […]
