Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC A showcase of 3 LGBTQ+ dance artists sharing new works-in-progress. Live dance performances by JanpiStar, Bernard Brown/bb moves, & Zoe Huey. Bernard […]

Soft Power

Uncomfortable sweat drips under my arms, my cheeks burning as I speak up on the panel. I challenge an application because it’s unclear how the applicant belonged to a marginalized BIPOC community and why they share stories of this community as a cis-white person.

In Conversation

In Conversation is a series of interviews exploring intergenerational conversations about dance and different folks’ relationship to dance. I’ve been thinking a lot about consequential strangers, or the people in […]

San Jose Dance Theatre: Sleeping Beauty

With one prick of her finger, she will sleep for 100 years and awake to true love’s first kiss. San Jose Dance Theatre brings the story of Sleeping Beauty to […]

San Jose Dance Theatre: Sleeping Beauty

With one prick of her finger, she will sleep for 100 years and awake to true love’s first kiss. San Jose Dance Theatre brings the story of Sleeping Beauty to […]

San Jose Dance Theatre: Sleeping Beauty

With one prick of her finger, she will sleep for 100 years and awake to true love’s first kiss. San Jose Dance Theatre brings the story of Sleeping Beauty to […]

Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC A showcase of 3 LGBTQ+ dance artists sharing new works-in-progress. Live dance performances by JanpiStar, Bernard Brown/bb moves, & Zoe Huey. Bernard […]

From One to Many: Dance is the Bridge

Brenda Butler and Christopher “Mad Dog” Thomas first met in 2020 through For You’s A Bridge, A Gift, a project that paired artists and elders with ties to Chicago’s Southside neighborhood and offered them creative prompts for their exchange.

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose Celebrates 35 Years

A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago I received a property tax statement from Santa Clara County. Imagine my surprise when I spotted an image of Mythili Kumar and her daughter Malavika […]

Kala Siddhi Dance Festival 2023

Kala Siddhi Dance Festival is a celebration of Dance and Life. This year we bring different flavors of Bharatanatyam for you all to relish. The festival opens with a traditional […]