Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest (Day Two)

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest highlights the strength, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area contemporary dance scene through a two-weekend mini festival of site-specific work. Curated by RAWdance’s Artistic Directors, […]

EXPANSIONS // HORIZONS 35 Years of Asian Improv aRts, Community Solidarity, and Revolutionary Artmaking

Presented by Asian Art Museum with Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center & Lenora Lee Dance For 35 years, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) has been at the forefront of the […]

EXPANSIONS // HORIZONS 35 Years of Asian Improv aRts, Community Solidarity, and Revolutionary Artmaking

Presented by Asian Art Museum with Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center & Lenora Lee Dance For 35 years, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) has been at the forefront of the […]

ReSound: Kathak in the Streets

Kathak Hits the Streets of San Francisco Bay Area Join us for ReSound, a 3-day celebration of free performances featuring the Leela Dance Collective and workshops to educate and inspire audiences […]

Garrett + Moulton Productions: Roll Out

Garrett + Moulton Productions will present live performances of a new work for 18 dancers commissioned by and to be performed at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) […]

Studio 210 Virtual Summer Residency Performance

Join Deborah Slater Dance Theater and Studio 210 for an evening of dance films by Summer Residents Angela Arteritano & Alyssandra Katherine Dance followed by discussion with the artists! Virtual […]

The Draw(back) of Awarding Achievement

Contributor note: Unattributed quotes were shared with me anonymously as research for this piece. Around this time every year we are inundated with being told what the “best” of the […]

A Peruvian Heart on an American Stage: Nestor Ruiz Shares his Passion

I have worked for many seasons at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival in varying capacities, and my first interaction with Peruvian dance company El Tunante and the company’s artistic director […]

Krissy Keefer Charges Forward on the Cusp of a Fifth Decade: A New Space for Dance Mission Theater and Dance Brigade

“A collective response of intelligence and resistance together with compassion.” — Krissy Keefer, November 2016 Mission street between 15th and 16th does not get a lot of foot traffic. That stretch […]

The Artistic Ensemble at San Quentin Prison

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2013, the Insight Prison Project, a Restorative Justice organization, approached artists and educators Amie Dowling and Freddy Gutierrez about their desire to bring a dance theater workshop […]