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DEAF’S IMPRISONED:A New Work by Antoine Hunter/Urban Jazz Dance Company
We wear misapprehension on our sleeves as a humble offering of our humanity. This is about audience as much as it is performance. A work-in-progress of our own vantage. I […]
Hope Comes Home
In an election year, everything begins to sound like a political slogan. Take the name, “Hope Mohr.” Is that catchy or what? Of course, that’s not fair—except nothing’s fair, it’s […]
In Practice: Holding Wait with Jo Kreiter
On a rainy afternoon in March, I met with Jo Kreiter, choreographer, artist-activist, and artistic director of Flyaway Productions, in a rehearsal space at Project Artaud, behind the Joe Goode […]
A Messenger Creating Community: An Interview with Nimely Napla
A loved and integral member of the Bay Area’s African dance community, Nimely Napla was born in Liberia in 1961 and began dancing for the Liberian National Dance Company in […]
Definitions and Connections: A Conversation with Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Editor’s Note: Recently, the National Center for Choreography in Akron, Ohio started a low-residency dance writing laboratory. The lab currently houses a cohort of five writers from around the country, […]
Getting in on the Act: Activating the Arts
What exactly do you mean by ‘participatory arts practices’?” a dancer recently asked me. A Confessional Tale We were on a rehearsal break and I was casually talking to a […]
The Silent E: 29 Effeminate Gestures, 24 Years Later
Joe Goode’s 29 Effeminate Gestures was first performed in 1987, by Joe Goode himself; it was literally a self-proclamation. It began with a muttered statement, repeated more and more emphatically, […]
From Tsunamis to Juice
I often think I am without value as a dance artist, yet I know from the bottom of my soul, dance is the very center of my life and is […]
FINDING FREEDOM IN BEAT AND SONG: A Conversation with Gabriela Shiroma of De Rompe y Raja
Gabriela Shiroma stood before her students with a stern but dedicated expression. Her gaze panned from left to right, as the dancers moved together to the beat of the music. […]
CULTIVATING RELATIONSHIP: Randee Paufve Reflects on How Dancing Can be Communicative and Evocative
RANDEE PAUFVE’S PRODUCTION, Strangers Become Flowers, will have its premiere in February at ODC Commons Studio B. In November I watched a run-through at Shawl-Anderson that lasted about 45 minutes […]