REST/UNREST: Latina/o/x choreographers provide community and craft to strategize, recover, and resist.

BOUBION AND ALDAPE ARE THE CO-DIRECTORS OF THE 4TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS, (FLACC 2017) Liz: The number four typically represents stability and order. It is a […]

The Call: San Francisco Native Margaret Jenkins Always Moves Forward

Margaret Jenkins, known to the dance world as Margy, has been making dances for most of her 75-years. She trained at the leading edge of performance with Judy Job, Welland […]

Serious Inquiry Generates Playfulness in Kegan Marlingโ€™s Remake of Jump Ship

Kegan Marling isnโ€™t sure which way to go. Marling, who is creating, performing and directing a dance theater piece that will be shown at CounterPulse in October, is directing Mica […]

Lessons Learned Pulling Double Duty: In Conversation with Robert Dekkers

Running a dance organization is hard enough. Now picture running two. And then imagine that the pair occupy very different spaces in the dance ecosystem โ€“ one traditional and one […]

Arts Leadership and a Healthy Arts Community

I think it was sometime back in the ’90s when the arts field first started talking about a crisis of future leadership. We looked around and saw a LOT of […]

Excerpts From The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece

Editor’s note: Working to fulfill our creative dreams can be daunting at times and finding ways to navigate the ebb and flow of this journey can provide a newfound energy […]

Casting a Lens on Communities for 15 Years: Lenora Lee Dance

Iโ€™ve always been fascinated by the list of traditional and contemporary anniversary gifts. While some may find it random or even silly, I think itโ€™s quite telling.

Turning Thirty: Joe Goode Performance Group Celebrates a Very Vital Enterprise

When a dance company reaches its 30th birthday, this is cause for celebration. It usually means theyโ€™ve managed to stay afloat in unstable economic periods, weathered artistic storms, and nurtured […]

SPEAK: Discovering the Power and Ability to Take Action

Photo by John Carnahan I am deeply immersed in contact improvisation and site-specific danceโ€”exploring the possibilities/capabilities of my body in relationship to other bodies and in relationship to space/architecture. I […]

April 2015

Welcome by Wayne Hazzard Impressions: An Aural and Physical Expedition Through the Sounds of the World by Sharon Benรญtez Bridging the Gaps: Challenges and Opportunities for US-China Cross-Cultural Exchange by […]