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 […]

It Happens In the Studio: Talking Trends and Technique with Five Artists Who Teach

Over my 20+ years of teaching, I’ve seen different trends and styles come and go. I’ve watched modern dancers go in and out of dedicated periods of ballet training. I’ve seen yoga […]

Did You Know? Mugwumpin

Mugwumpin is an award-winning San Francisco theater and performance ensemble, whose vision is to create live art that ignites radical collaboration, empathy and curiosity. Mugwumpin was formed in San Francisco […]

Longing: The Global Postmodern Poetics of David Roussève’s “Saudade”, Mar 2009

The same moment I discovered how much my body could be hated is the same moment my heart discovered how much I could be loved. This was a life that […]

SPEAK

Edited by Zackary Forcum No matter where I go I can’t help being informed and infused by the culture, architecture, history, and resonance of an area and its people. This […]

THE LIVES OF A DANCE/DANCER: Keith Hennessy on his collaboration with Sara Shelton Mann

IN JANUARY, A REUNION took place at CounterPulse among eight former members of Contraband, the legendary radical dance troupe founded and directed by Sara Shelton Mann and active in San Francisco […]

Sailing Away: Joanna Haigood Choreographs San Francisco History

Flooded with Gold Rush lucre and teeming with the adventurers who hunted for it, San Francisco in the 1850s was a rootin’-tootin’, quick-shootin’, prostitutin’ Wild West boomtown. Halloween in the […]

Nava Dance Theatre: Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies (World Premiere)

Nava Dance Theatre presents the world premiere of Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies which uses the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam and experimental movement to examine the labor of South […]

Nava Dance Theatre: Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies (World Premiere)

Nava Dance Theatre presents the world premiere of Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies which uses the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam and experimental movement to examine the labor of South […]

ODC Theater: Fanny Ara presents Lilith

Fanny Ara reflects on the journey of Lilith, a female symbol of independence, freedom and control over destiny through experimental and improvisational flamenco dance. Does liberation have a price? Are […]