Going Gaga: New Movement in the Middle East, Sept 2009

Blessed with a small grant and an apartment I found on Craigslist, I travelled recently to Israel and Palestine’s Occupied Territories to investigate dance and cultural diversity. For five weeks […]

In Practice: Colleague-Criticism

In 2009, I published an essay in this publication (In Dance) about a work by choreographer Randee Paufve, a dear friend of mine. I didn’t know it at the time, […]

In Practice: Stepping Back to Move Forward with Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero

Dancers’ Group · In Practice: Stepping Back to Move Forward with Hope Mohr, Cherie Hill, and Karla Quintero   If you prefer to read this piece, continue below. Beginning on […]

New Art Things in a New Art Space: KUNST-STOFF’s Home

FIVE STORIES ABOVE A HIP SHOE STORE and the hustle of tourists, shoppers and panhandlers in downtown San Francisco there is a long calm room filled with light and 2500 […]

Flying Somewhere New: Introducing the Center for Dance and Aerial Arts, in Conversation with Joanna Haigood

My relationship with heights is not a good one. I’m no fan; we’ve never been friends; and I would even characterize our co-existence as mildly contentious. For me, the ground […]

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 […]

From Kathakali to Kathak: Eight Indian Classical Genres at the 2014 SF Ethnic Dance Festival 

The weekend of June 14-15, 2014, is shaping up as an unusual opportunity for Bay Area dance lovers: the chance to experience a stellar showcase of Indian classical dance by some of the […]

Welcome

Certain daily moments can be summed up with a few, carefully chosen words. As a child of television, mine are often titles of soap operas. The Guiding Light. As the […]

The Wave of Things to Come

When the Republicans swept into power in the early 1980s they brought with them a fanatical commitment to business. Everything fit under the imperial umbrella of the marketplace, and everything […]

Afro-Peruvian Resilience and Empowerment Through the Dance Son de los Diablos

By combining Afro-Peruvian dance movements with ancestral memory and historical information, Cunamacué brings visibility to the presence and cultural contributions of African descendants in Peru.