New View: with Tomás Riley

COUNTERPULSE RECENTLY WELCOMED its new Executive Director, Tomás Riley, who brings to the organization both his experience as a leader in community-based arts programming and social-justice driven artistic practice. In Dance […]

Expanding Access: The Gugulethu Ballet Project

When you first meet Bay Area ballet teacher Kristine Elliott, it’s impossible not to be swept off your feet by her joyous laugh. The former American Ballet Theatre soloist radiates […]

Welcome

Someplace, else Over dinner with my best friend Danelia, who is an outdoor educator and leader, I expressed a desire to leave San Francisco for some ‘nature therapy.’ I shared […]

From Vision to Mainstay in a Decade: San Francisco Dance Film Festival

What do you love about fall? It’s by far my favorite time of year, so my list is on the longer side. There are the beloved seasonal traditions – Thanksgiving […]

A Sense of Belonging Among Ever-Changing Circumstances

I began teaching Dance for PD® in Oakland, in 2007. The classes are free and open to anyone who has Parkinson’s disease.

Traveling and Touring: Part II

In last month’s issue of In Dance I wrote an article that considered the history of touring dance since the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965—a […]

Traveling and Touring

2017 was a big year for us, with our first large-scale domestic tour. Together with choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener we premiered Tesseract at EMPAC in January and went […]

One Chinese Foot, One American Foot: Talking with Lily Cai

MY CONVERSATION with dancer and choreographer Lily Cai began with a topic that is probably the most important issue facing artists in San Francisco in 2016: real estate. We met […]

On Traditional Ohlone Land: Dancing Earth at Alcatraz

“As contemporary people we’re taking the responsibility to create the songs and dances that speak to our time now…and creating intertribal and global indigenous relationships, and creating new languages of […]

In a New Place: Dance & Disability in 2018

The San Francisco Bay Area is known to be on the vanguard of what is possible in dance, who dances, where, and how. Because of the work of AXIS Dance […]