Dance for a Homeland

A review of Nora Chipaumire’s “Chimurenga,” a one woman show performed in September at ODC Theater.

A Fine Time on the F Line

A sneak preview of this year’s Trolley Dances, featuring an array of performances along San Francisco’s historic F Line.

Dance In San Francisco; Observations and Attitudes

The following article was published in Movement Research Journal #31, Summer 2007, New York City. San Francisco, the left coast, the endpoint of western expansion and escape. Being a port […]

Who Are We?

An overview of a new series called the Talking Dance Project, which aims to create dialogue around topics affecting Bay Area dance.

Choreographing Change; An Interview with USF

Amie Dowling is currently a faculty member in the Performing Arts Department at the University of San Francisco. I first met her the senior year of my undergraduate education at […]

What Exactly is Community-Based Dance?, Oct 2007

From dance classes with prisoners, to after-school programs, to participatory rituals and multi-generational performance projects, Community-based dance can take a wide variety of forms. Here I explore the roots of […]

Dance Educators Descend on Alabama

A re-cap of this year’s annual National Dance Education Association Conference in Alabama.

Letter to Postmodern Dance; How Freedom of Movement is Killing my Creativity

Attention: Postmodern Dance CC: Modern Dance August 13, 2007 Dear PMD, After all our work together I regret that I must register a complaint with you, my dear friend. I […]

Our Breath is as thin as a Hummingbird’s Spin; A Foray into Interspecies Love

Review: Nanos Operetta & Inkboat at ODC Theater, July 26, 2007

Myth Shattering

Dancers’ Group’s executive director looks at the attitude of abundance vs. scarcity and asks donations in support of the Parachute Fund.