San Francisco Dance Film Festival: Spring Fling 2024: Premiere Screening, Performance & Party

Saturday’s program features the eagerly anticipated premiere of SFDFF’s Co-Laboratory film “Intimité Révélée,” a fresh collaboration between SFDFF, Ballet22 and a creative team led by Artistic Director Lorris Eichinger, Director […]

Artists in Exile: Latina Immigrants’ Stories Through Flamenco

After reaching almost fifteen years in exile and noticing the increasing number of fellow Venezuelan immigrants across the US and the world, I pondered the question of how to encapsulate a displaced legacy.

In Conversation Archive

In Conversation is a series of interviews exploring discourse about dance and different folks’ relationship to dance. All Audio Recorded and Edited by Andréa Spearman 2022 Fall Spring Winter 2021 […]

Ad Infinitum Identities: The work of Pseuda & Kim Ip

Pseuda can be seen from a stage, holding two metal chain ropes attached to the limbs of another body. A doll, a dancer, Kim Ip. It’s Halloween, 2015, at B4bel4b Gallery, and the audience doesn’t yet know that Kim and Pseuda are chained together until they begin to stretch away, the chains syncing a nexus between bodies.

Being Blurred: Ralph Lemon Interviewed

Ariel Osterweis Scott (AS): The last time I saw you was at a Miguel Gutierrez performance. I remember you said something provocative regarding an explicit performance art piece I hadn’t […]

The Next Chapter of Live Performance at SFMOMA: A Conversation with Megan Brian and Frank Smigiel

An open space bathed in bright white. White walls and window shades; an industrial white light grid. An expansive, double height room where the ceiling feels far away. Smooth maple […]

San Francisco Dance Film Festival: The Vault: Bay Area Legends

San Francisco Dance Film Festival honors four Bay Area choreographers – Ellen Bromberg, Joe Goode, Margaret Jenkins, and Brenda Way – and the filmmakers with whom they created historic dance […]

An Unfolding: Reflections on 花和霧 flowers and fog

Kat: I first experienced Melissa’s project during the midst of shelter in place, stranded in my tiny bedroom in North Berkeley. The absence of people was a weight I felt in my bones.

Queer Dance Film Festival

Get ready to be blown away by the power of queer and trans dance performances from around the world at 2nd annual Queer Dance Film Festival! This groundbreaking event, both […]

Catching up with Dana Lawton Dances and The Farallonites

One Saturday afternoon last February, I sat upstairs in Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s large studio space watching Dana Lawton Dances (DLD) prepare their upcoming new work, The Farallonites.