Stealing Stories: Leyya Tawil

You poor little creature…what is yours? Your house…your job…your kitchen chairs and the number plate on the door…ah! But these don’t belong to you. By what right did they come […]

WAVES OF CHANGE: West Wave Dance Festival Returns With Joe Landini at the Helm

It was a sad day for Bay Area dance when the West Wave Dance Festival folded in 2012. The annual showcase began as Summerfest under the direction of Cathleen McCarthy […]

Revealing the Process

When someone joins the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee (The Izzies), they’re usually pleasantly surprised. Instead of a mysterious, shadowy group they will find a group of individuals like themselves—passionate […]

Going Gaga: New Movement in the Middle East, Sept 2009

Blessed with a small grant and an apartment I found on Craigslist, I travelled recently to Israel and Palestine’s Occupied Territories to investigate dance and cultural diversity. For five weeks […]

Margaret Jenkins’ Past Meets Present in “Times Bones:” A 40th Anniversary

YOU CAN’T MISS HER in the audience at dance shows around town, with that lion’s mane of red hair, that regal posture, that focused stare, intimidating until she offers a […]

Bay Area Ballet Makes a Comeback

SAN FRANCISCO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DANCE TOWN. The mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, was born here; dozens of choreographers and dancers have gotten their start here or decided […]

Restage, Revisit, Reinvent: Four Choreographers Discuss Restaging Work

A choreographer supplies the vision for a work, but the dancers give it an identity. So when a choreographer restages a work on a different company, on entirely different bodies, […]

Freeicecream.network by h0tclub

WHAT: h0tclub presents Freeicecream.network – an experimental multimedia livestream that explores how our desire for connection and delicious treats entangles us with networks of information technologies. Free ice cream not […]

It’s Hard To Say

This is the story of a dancing banana. Try saying it out loud: “Dancing banana.” On the first syllable of “dancing” and the second syllable of “banana” your mouth turns up into a smile.

Dance/USA Convenes in Philadelphia

“It’s a small world,” continues to ring in my ears with each connection I make in the dance field, as I often find a friend of a friend or colleague […]