Working in The Garage: Tools to Help Carve Out Space for Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance has a long history of being developed on the fringes of the cultural landscape. Choreographers have traditionally found space to make new work in basements, lofts, parking structures […]

The Emperor’s Old Clothes?: Reflections on Thirty Years of the Ethnic Dance Festival

Upfront: here is my disclaimer and confession. I owe much to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF), which marks 30 years of presenting this June. I have lived on […]

Brand New Day

NDI New Mexico’s Virtual Gala, Brand New Day! Brand New Day is a livestreaming program celebrating hope and joy and featuring hundreds of NDI children from around the state dancing to […]

Vastness

Created by NDI New Mexico’s most advanced dancers and set in the exquisite landscapes of White Sands, Abiquiu, and Valles Caldera, NDI New Mexico’s first-ever dance film, Vastness, artfully combines original dance, […]

35 Years Later San Francisco Ballet Brings Back Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Photo by Erik Tomasson Have you ever been to a wedding where the invited guests just couldn’t keep it together? I have. And I’m betting you know exactly the kind […]

Swing Dance Lives On in the Bay Area

Impossible to resist. You know that toe-tapping, pre- World War II tune “Sing, Sing, Sing” that commands you to dance the moment you hear it? That was the point of […]

Raices de Otra Tierra: Reflections on the Diverse Folclórico Community of the SF Bay Area

LIVING IN THE BAY AREA, we are fortunate to be in one of the most ethnically diverse regions of the United States. Our home is so diverse, that in 2013, […]

PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE GUNA OF PANAMA: Mark the Closing of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition

ON DECEMBER 4, 1915, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition closed its gates forever after 18 million people had visited the 635-acre World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Marina District. Many people consider […]

ONSITE: AXIS Dance Company

Occupy A site-specific journey through an urban garden Choreographed by renowned site artist Stephan Koplowitz With an original score by Pamela Z AXIS Dance Company, Dancers’ Group and Yerba Buena […]

Ten Tips for Individual Appeal Letters

At some point in our careers as artists we come face-to-face with fundraising for our creative projects. This can be thrilling and exhilarating—serving as a rite-of-passage into the next phase […]