The Luckiest Teacher: Lisa Aguilar’s 40 Year Commitment to Tahitian Dance

Lisa Aguilar is the Ra’atira Pupu (Director) and Choreographer for the East Bay-based Tahitian Dance Company, Te Mana O Te Ra. I spent a Sunday afternoon speaking with Lisa about her […]

What Inspires You?

Wanting a bit of winter inspiration, Dancers’ Group sent a request to a variety of dancers, administrators, choreographers, designers, artistic directors, funders, and even some politicians, asking them to respond […]

Glimpses of Nijinsky…100 Years Later

Much celebrated this year is the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Paris-based company that changed the face of dance in the twentieth century, as well as having […]

1519’s Curtain Call: Pivotal Queer Art Performance Space Closes

THE LONG-RUNNING PERFORMANCE SPACE at 1519 Mission, in San Francisco, went dark at the beginning of August. Like many alternative art spaces, 1519 never held permits to accommodate larger audiences, […]

Dear Anna

Photo by Shinichi Iova-Koga Anna, I’ve been thinking about you. Our world breathes so strangely now. My dance becomes more and more quiet. As I write this, I “shelter at […]

Leading the Dance Field Through Change

During my first few months as the executive director of Dance/USA, I engaged dance leaders from around the country in conversations about the state of the field. What are they […]

Welcome

To live in the San Francisco Bay Area is to reckon with striking paradoxes. Rising wealth contrasts with persistent homelessness. Socially progressive values butt up against NIMBY (not in my […]

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]

The 2017 Fires: Reflecting and Preparing

In October of this past fall, swaths of Napa and Sonoma Counties were burned. Like so many, Dancers’ Group staff smelled the smoke from our office in San Francisco, more […]

Dance Educators Create Systemic Change

Dance teachers create change. Daily we enter classrooms, centers, and studios motivated to share our passion with students who eagerly await the chance to move and liberate their bodies. In […]