Black Women Genius, Black Women Magic, Black Women Power

I want to do “A House Full of Black Women!” —Amara Tabor-Smith

These were the words that came falling out of Amara’s mouth, sweet and easy, like fat golden corn falls ripe and juicy off a late-summer cobb. It was mere hours after the soul-stirring finish of

A Turning Point, Part II – Rebirth

“In Mexico they say when someone you love dies, a part of you dies with them. But they forget to mention that a part of them is born in you- […]

Balance, Push and Promotion: Self-Producing After College

My college welcoming committee consisted of one overworked upperclassman. I was an over-eager freshman, still acclimating to a twin-sized bed and raucous hallmates, but ready to join the first student-led […]

He Moved Swiftly…

“Do you dance for the dead or with the dead?” This is the choreographer’s and the conjurer’s dilemma. What we know from watching Amara Tabor-Smith is that the answer comes […]

Dance Discourse Project #21

Dreaming The Future Landscape Thu, Jan 14, 7:30pm Center for New Music, SF FREE DDP and the FRESH Festival joined forces to ask expansively, poetically and pragmatically: what can a […]

For Current Projects

Carolena Nericcio Fuses Forms to Inspire New Generations of Belly Dancers

The sun never sets on American Tribal Style Belly Dance®. From Sydney to Stockholm, and Tel-Aviv to Taipei, one can find an American Tribal Style® (ATS®) class in more than […]

ONSITE: Fog Beast

The Big Reveal – 2019 – Fog Beast Dancers’ Group and the Asian Art Museum presented Fog Beast’s The Big Reveal  Expanding our notions of what a dance performance can […]

SPEAK: Invaluable Lessons

Photo by Keith Sutter My first week as Artistic Director of Sacramento Ballet, I learned we had lost our warehouse space and would need to deeply consolidate our sets and […]

ONSITE: Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat

95 Rituals was a site-specific performance work by Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat, dedicated to Anna Halprin, a visionary artist whose work radically expanded the purpose, process, and content of dance-making over seven decades. 95 Rituals […]