Welcome, Oct 2010

I was recently confronted with the saying, β€œIf you can spot it, you got it,” which I took as this: the faults I so easily point out in others are […]

Welcome, Nov 2010

β€œIt gets better,” the current phrase and theme to an online video campaign seeks to help lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth understand the choices and support structures […]

Performance Preview: What’s On For This Season

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, start your espresso machinesβ€”you’ll need extra zip to keep up with the Bay Area’s spring dance schedule, which includes new pieces from renowned local choreographers, avant-garde work […]

Turning Point: Re-Defining Bay Area Ballet

BALLET IS DEAD, bemoans dance historian Jennifer Homans in her latest opus, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet. Homans grew up in the Balanchine era and now finds the contemporary […]

Bay Area Community Colleges: Great Teaching, Great Value

In the nine Bay Area counties, there are at least 17 colleges (the difficulty in counting comes from the fact that some have branches, while others have campuses and other […]

March 2007

A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own By Kitty Luce: An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination. Dance IS […]

Welcome

I always wanted to be a dancer, even before I knew what being a dancer was or might mean. Dreams become facts. The human body is on a 24-hour-a-day schedule […]

Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee Announces Nominees and Honorees for 2016-2017 Performance Season

The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee celebrates 32 years of honoring local dance artists by acknowledging their outstanding achievements in dance. During each 12-month performance cycle, running September 1-August 31, […]

SPEAK: future friend/ships

Jassem Hindi β€œIrony is about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humor and serious play. It is also […]

Gaining Perspectives, Changing Perceptions – ARTICLE #2: Our World in Constant Motion

Editors Note: In the December 2016 issue of In Dance Farah Yasmeen Shaikh wrote about her experiences as a Pakistani Muslim-American woman Kathak artist and her work teaching and performing […]