BRIDGING THE GAPS: Challenges and Opportunities for US-China Cross-Cultural Exchange

WHEN I FIRST VISITED CHINA to perform in the Beijing Dance Festival in 2012, I arrived assuming that modern dance in China was a relatively new, underdeveloped phenomenon. I had no […]

Bliss Dance Festival 2020

Bliss Dance Festival’s purpose is to promote women choreographers while empowering women to celebrate their sexuality, sex, and sexual desires. Bliss Dance Festival is Bay Area’s very first dance festival […]

Alonzo King LINES Ballet | Training Program Winter Showcase 2022

Get in the holiday spirit and come see the brilliance of LINES Ballet | Training Program in performance! This stunning group of dancers will premiere works by aacclaimed faculty artist […]

For You, For All of Us

The recent production of For You at the Marin Headlands was intended to be a break from self-absorbed, opaque art. Conceived by interdisciplinary performance maker Erika Chong Shuch, the April […]

New View: David Martinez

With fresh young faces popping up constantly, the local Bay Area dance community is unique blend of seasoned artists and newbie dancers. In Dance caught up with new-to-town David Martinez […]

Living and Moving in a Way that Grows: A Look at Sustainability

Shop locally. Eat regionally. These are two adages that get thrown around often in the culture that permeates the Bay Area. It is a hallmark of where we live, a […]

Welcome, May 2010

Community — A complex notion? Or as simple and essential as breathing? Our community can be represented by those we are born into, or those we choose for consistent needs […]

Grace; Revisiting a Definition

An essay examining the historical evolution of grace as a concept and its application to integrated dance.

Building Rainbow Logic: Arm in Arm with Remy Charlip

Have you ever heard the term ‘polymath’? Recently I took an informal poll of twelve close friends and asked if they could define it. Some couldn’t. Some thought it must be […]

Artist Residencies as Homes for Community-building and Risk-taking

IN THE RECENTLY-RELEASED documentary about Yvonne Rainer called Feelings are Facts, one statement reveals a key element in the artistic explorations of the 1960s: Steve Paxton says that he had […]