A Diverse Career in the Corps de Ballet: With San Francisco Ballet’s Alexandra McCullagh Newman and Gaetano Amico III

At the age of three, Alexandra McCullagh Newman saw her first Nutcracker— immediately, she was in love. Fast forward a few years, and McCullagh Newman was well-immersed in the dance […]

EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES: Garrett and Moulton’s Latest Work Illuminates Borders Between Realms

It’s mid-July at ODC Dance Commons and in a spacious, sunny studio Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton are directing a room full of dancers. There’s one particular moment that draws […]

Leaving an Imprint: The Necessity of Dancers for Livelihood

“When I’m taking dance class, I just feel so able. I feel like my body can do anything; like I’m Wonder Woman or something.” “Dancing meant so much to me […]

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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 […]

Dance of death: FACT/SF’s festive and funereal 10th anniversary

Elation, frustration, wonder, befuddlement – one experiences a full spectrum of thoughts and feelings at a FACT/SF performance. Founded by Charles Slender-White in 2008, the company’s oeuvre spans more than […]

Lighting Your Work

“Lighting design is a collaborative profession in which the lighting designer collaborates with backgrounds, things, purposes and people. In the theatre the lighting designer’s collaboration is with all these at […]

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The Draw(back) of Awarding Achievement

Contributor note: Unattributed quotes were shared with me anonymously as research for this piece. Around this time every year we are inundated with being told what the “best” of the […]

Cracked Open: Reflection on Moving the Body-Brain, Moving the Brain-Body – a danced lecture

Prompted by Dominic’s creative matchmaking, Paul and I had a conversation via Zoom that allowed us to speak about our dance-making as a way of engaging with and transforming difficult legacies that are invariably written on and encoded in our bodies.