Leading the Dance Field Through Change

During my first few months as the executive director of Dance/USA, I engaged dance leaders from around the country in conversations about the state of the field. What are they […]

Looking at Home From Both Sides of the Equator

For the past two summers I have traveled to Peru through the University of San Francisco’s Community Connections. I work as Adjunct Faculty in the USF Dance Program, which is […]

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 […]

Art, Dance, Theory, and Perception

I FELT UNCERTAIN. Sort of solitary? Though a lot goes on in the Bay Area, the limitations (cost, accessibility, space, outreach, etc) to the dance world frustrated me. I wanted […]

Move and Be Moved During Bay Area Dance Week

Each year hundreds of dance organizations, companies, schools and artists open up their doors and invite the public—you!—to attend an event, completely free of charge, during Bay area dance Week (BADW). dancers’ group […]

Tips for the Business of Dance: Making Your Resolutions Real

It’s that season again when people dream of getting fit, learning a new skill, or accomplishing something grand in their personal or professional lives. After all, looking toward the new […]

Terry Sendgraff: We See You Flying!

Photos by Savage Photography The earth could not contain Terry, so she took to the sky. And when circumstances made it impossible for her to fly anymore, she overcame her […]

The Dance v. The Critic: Who Has The Right to Write?

IN 2007 IN DANCE DEVOTED a majority of its November issue to the topic of dance criticism. Many critics and community members commented on the threat of a kind of […]

Innovation Within Tradition: Covering the Annual Classical Indian Dance Festival

IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD, the words “classical” and “traditional” in terms of dance are often oversimplified and misinterpreted as “old” or “fixed.” Classical Indian Dance is no exception. Unfortunately for […]

Welcome

Picture the scene: my 16 month old daughter hands me a book. We read it together (it’s short, so that doesn’t take long) and she’ll immediately shove it back towards […]