Kathy Mata Ballet to Perform at the SF Conservatory of Music

By David B. Feldman What does Kathy Mata Ballet, a small San-Francisco-based community dance company, have in common with the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma and world-renown operatic tenor Placido Domingo? […]

Imbuing Spirit into Cloth

  I didn’t wake up one day thinking I should create ritual costumes. They snuck up on me. They whispered to me, they brought magic into my home and drew […]

Poppin’ Fresh: The 12th Annual SF Hip Hop DanceFest

HIP HOP IS BIG BUSINESS. The genre that started with kids break dancing at New York block parties in the 1970s is now a requirement on So You Think You […]

Critical Dialogues: Rachel Howard and Gregory Dawson

What if, rather than writing a review, a critic sat down with a choreographer to have a two- way conversation about the work? That’s the experiment behind Critical Dialogues. For this […]

SPEAK By Isabel Von Rittberg

I grew up in Wuppertal, Germany, home of Pina Bausch. As a girl I took ballet lessons with one of her dancers, also a close friend of my mother’s. Summers […]

Studies on Aging Performing Artists

The following is a reprinting of an executive summary written on an ongoing research project regarding aging artists in America, what the project has been finding, and where the research […]

Carolena Nericcio Fuses Forms to Inspire New Generations of Belly Dancers

The sun never sets on American Tribal Style Belly Dance®. From Sydney to Stockholm, and Tel-Aviv to Taipei, one can find an American Tribal Style® (ATS®) class in more than […]

An Old Friend in a New Light: Reflections on Collaboration in Bharatanatyam

With roots in temple ritual and salons passed from generation to generation through the hereditary dance and music community of Tamil Nadu, in post-colonial India, the practice began to attract students and performers from various backgrounds around the world as a performing art.

Uncovered: The Diary Project: Sean Dorsey’s Fifth Home Season

Most people already know that Sean Dorsey is a trailblazing pioneer in the modern dance world. He is the first openly transgendered choreographer to make work about his own life […]

Click Tracks

Helen Wicks Works presents Click Tracks, a new show inspired by the history of film scoring and newsreels. In collaboration with rigger Benjy Young, aerial dancers will perform on a 4-story tightwire. […]