Remembering Weiferd Watts

PHOTOGRAPHER WEIFERD WATTS, a prolific dance photographer and my good friend of 11 years, passed away October 10, 2010 after a sudden heart attack. For over 25 years Weiferd captured […]

From Tsunamis to Juice

I often think I am without value as a dance artist, yet I know from the bottom of my soul, dance is the very center of my life and is […]

Museum of Performance and Design: The Next Chapter

Adjacent to the opulence and grandeur of the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall lies a quiet, hidden jewel in San Francisco’s performing arts crown–the Museum of Performance […]

History in the Taping: Confessions of an Accidental Dance Videographer

As I was preparing to write this article about dance documentation, it occurred to me that it has been exactly ten years since Shelley Trott and I started the interviews […]

Bay Area Dance Week

April 26 – May 5, 2024 all dance, all free, all week   Registration is open for artists and organizations to add free events open to the public during April […]

Dance Discourse Project #2

Investigating the Post Multi-Culturalism Landscape Sherwood Chen and Mary Armentrout spoke with Danny Kalanduyan, Teela Shine Ross, Prumsodun Ok, and Joti Singh. In this second installment of an ongoing series, […]

Dance Discourse Project #13

Dancing in the Museum CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group co-presented a panel of distinguished curators, executives, artists and thinkers who discussed what happens when dance comes alive in territory built for […]

Come Together: Two Perspectives on the College Dance Festival

Contemporary dance is thriving in our universities. At a time when funding for professional dance work is increasingly scarce, universities serve as sanctuaries for dance artists at all stages of […]

A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own, Mar 2007

An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination.

Hip Hop Her Way; An Interview with Sisterz of the Underground’s Sarah Smalls

Sisterz of the Underground (SOTU) is a community, network, and support system created by, and for, females who choose hip-hop as a form of expression. As an open hip-hop collective, […]