EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES: Garrett and Moulton’s Latest Work Illuminates Borders Between Realms

It’s mid-July at ODC Dance Commons and in a spacious, sunny studio Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton are directing a room full of dancers. There’s one particular moment that draws […]

A Year of Opportunity for the San Francisco Dance Film Festival

If you’ve ever wanted to saturate yourself in screendance – dance choreographed specifically for the camera—now is your moment. This year’s San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF) will offer what […]

Speak: Place for Family in Dance

My work is greatly inspired and impacted by my family. Three years ago, my parents immigrated to the US from Japan to live with me and to continue pursuing their […]

SF Dance Film Festival Spring Fling

Bringing live performance from the stage to the screen, San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s Spring Fling Festival pays tribute to all the dancers who were prevented from performing live for the […]

SPEAK: BLACK CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL: In the Spirit of Sankofa

THE MOTTO for the Black Choreographers Festival (BCF)—Keeping the Vision For-ward—is at the core of all that we plan, curate, and present. The summer of 2003 began two years of […]

Dance is in the DNA of the Universe

Every morning just before dawn, from my window at the International Hotel, flights of doves descend upon the corner of Kearny and Jackson streets, and soon the dance begins.

given, found, finding, making, re-making, finding again

Photo by Hong Xu. [ID: A young Chinese father wears a long-sleeved collared shirt and tie, holding his baby daughter half-wrapped in a towel. He’s in the middle of exclaiming […]

Beyond Aesthetics: Bachata, Politics, Praxis

Originating among the (predominantly Black) rural poor in the Dominican Republic in the latter half of the twentieth century, bachata music and the accompanying dance steps were stigmatized by the sociopolitical elite as vulgar, low-class forms of entertainment unsuitable for polite society.

SPEAK: On Being Ally and Aesthetic Warrior

Calling all women warriors to the table. To the think tank. the battle eld. the theater. the aftermath. We will be our own landing ground, recovery center, aesthetic re-design gym, […]

Navigating the Storm: A Conversation with KT Nelson About Dead Reckoning

Dominating recent headlines, the scientific world is now in unanimous agreement that 2014 was the warmest year on record, thus bringing back to the table the burning issues—no pun intended—of […]