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“That Unspeakable Somewhat”: Bill T. Jones, Abraham Lincoln, and the Question of Iconicity, May 2009
Trying to secure an interview with Bill T. Jones is like trying to secure a lunch date with Madonna. Here we seem to be in the presence—or absence—of icons. So […]
From Hawai’i to Taylor and Back Again: A Conversation with Rachel Berman
Rachel Berman, former member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, is an easy person to like. We met at an event at Mills College where she is currently on dance […]
SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance
The last time I danced at the Cowell Theater was 1994 as a member of Bailes Flamenco. On closing night, I promised myself that someday I would bring my own […]
What is Dance/USA?
You’ve most likely heard the name Dance/USA. But what exactly does the organization do? Why, you may ask, do we need a national organization for dance when we’ve got support […]
The Conversations that Shift and Shape Dance Education
“An Unfinished Canvas: Arts Education in California: Taking Stock of Policy and Practice,” the 2007 report on arts education sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, told Californians what […]
Maclovia Ruiz: A Life in Spanish Dance
Editor’s Note: Dancers’ Group strives to honor the diverse and rich legacy of all forms of dance. To continue this mission we are working with Berkeley-based dancer and dance ethnologist […]
John Jasperse in the Bay Area: Gaps, Misuse, and the Possibility of Thick Description
John Jasperse is a choreographer known as: Cool. Brainy. Provocative. Naked. Virtuosic. Transgressive. Austere. Opaque. Difficult. Formal. Experimental. Critical. Ironic. Oblique. Pensive. Part of the witty, cerebral downtown New York […]
The Problem of “Culturally Specific” Dance: The Search for a Critical Multiculturalism in Dance, Apr 2009
One of the blessings of Bay Area living is our access to a rich variety of dance—a choreological panopoly often summarized, for the sake of convenience, as “modern, ballet, and […]
BOOK REVIEW: The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practice in Dance Training
Twenty years ago dance was declared dead by more than a few New York dance critics who had watched both modern dance and ballet flower and, they believed, collapse. The […]
Documenting Dance Learning in Schools
I started teaching dance as a bit of a fluke. Just a week after moving to San Francisco, I jumped into teaching, replacing a dance teacher who had left the […]
