A SEAT AT THE TABLE: If you don’t have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.

Photo by Robbie Sweeny I am a storyteller, a translator, an everyperson, trying to ‘get’ life’s inexplicable moments. I make work to try and understand difficult life experiences, like the […]

Does One Size Fit All Funders?

WHEN IT COMES TIME for you to begin fundraising for a new artistic project, wouldn’t it be great if you could print a bunch of copies of your well-crafted project […]

Choreographer in the Classroom: At the Intersection of Dance and Academic Curriculum

It’s Tuesday afternoon at Monument Mountain Regional High School in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Much of the snow from the weekend storm has melted. There is a weak […]

Delicate Acts of Artistic Courage: Performing Diaspora returns to CounterPULSE

If you’re reading In Dance, then I probably don’t need to tell you that among San Francisco arts organizations, CounterPULSE has one of the strongest reputations for presenting risk-taking and […]

Fearless Grantwriting

EVERY ARTS ORGANIZATION will have to defend a seemingly indefensible situation to a potential funder at some point. Your first instinct might be to do everything you can to avoid […]

The Year in Bay Area Dance, Dec 2008

As a way to close out another year ‘in dance,’ we take a look back at some of the memorable moments of 2008. We asked what you felt were the […]

How home remembers me

I would play around with high and low cries while singing it until she said “yeaaaahhh, that’s it, we are almost there.” The memory of how I learned this song has stuck with me until today.

A Breath and a Hum, and a Move Like Mango: An Interview with Deaf Dancer & Choreographer Antoine Hunter

Transcribing my interview with Deaf dancer, choreographer and teacher Antoine Hunter, I am acutely aware of how much every conversation relies upon a unique choreography of gestures, expressions and empathy. […]

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 […]

Expanding Expressions: Madhuri Kishore brings Kuchipudi to the Landscape of Bay Area Indian Dance

Madhuri Kishore School of Kuchipudi / photo courtesy of school Traversing the landscape of Indian dance forms practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area, it can be easy for the […]