A Diverse Career in the Corps de Ballet: With San Francisco Ballet’s Alexandra McCullagh Newman and Gaetano Amico III

At the age of three, Alexandra McCullagh Newman saw her first Nutcracker— immediately, she was in love. Fast forward a few years, and McCullagh Newman was well-immersed in the dance […]

Stepping to the Beat of a Different Fiddle with the Barbary Coast Cloggers

As the first high notes of fiddle fill the air, a group of twelve men in jeans and flannel shirts begin to clap rhythmically. A banjo joins the fiddle, and […]

Ad Infinitum Identities: The work of Pseuda & Kim Ip

Pseuda can be seen from a stage, holding two metal chain ropes attached to the limbs of another body. A doll, a dancer, Kim Ip. It’s Halloween, 2015, at B4bel4b Gallery, and the audience doesn’t yet know that Kim and Pseuda are chained together until they begin to stretch away, the chains syncing a nexus between bodies.

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San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival Video Premiere

Zaccho Dance Theatre premieres the first ever San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival Video Project. In this innovative and collaborative video project, Zaccho Dance Theatre brings together 16 international aerial artists […]

Resource Equity: Connecting culturally specific dance communities with grants funding

Introduction   There’s a large, diverse, and vibrant multicultural dance community in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a long-time capacity building specialist and resource equity advocate, I’ve worked extensively […]

Dance IS Intergenerational

The Dance IS Festival not only asks, what is dance?, but enacts, probes, and challenges the question. While considering how dance functions in the East Bay, the festival also explores […]

Isadora Duncan Dance Awards: Nominees & Honorees for the 2011-2012 Performance Season

The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee announces the “Izzies” nominees and honorees for the 2011-12 performance season. The winners will be announced in an awards ceremony on Monday evening, March […]

Musings on The People’s Palace

Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre is also an ancient art that portrays the living bodies of a place in motion, flight, and proximity to the stories that become enshrined built and unbuilt places upon the earth.

Taking Up Space: A conversation between two dancers combating anti-fatness

ALL bodies deserve respect regardless of size, skin color, ethnic background, gender, sexuality, age, health or ability status.