The First Steps: Luna Dance Institute

Dance teacher, Bonner Odell is on maternity leave. With the birth of her daughter, the count is five teacher-mothers (out of seven) at Luna. As our small organization juggles busy […]

The Ties That Bind: Eight Years of CHIME

Eight years ago, Margaret Jenkins founded CHIME, Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange, based on the belief that open communication between choreographers of different generations is important, that artists should be compensated […]

Leading the Dance Field Through Change

During my first few months as the executive director of Dance/USA, I engaged dance leaders from around the country in conversations about the state of the field. What are they […]

Questions from a Mom

To be a choreographer takes absolute commitment. To be a parent takes absolute commitment. Can the two live harmoniously? I have thought a lot about what it takes to be […]

Dance and Flower: dNaga’s peace about life: Dancing with Parkinson’s

We dancers demand an impossibly high degree of control—over our muscles, our bones, our emotions. We strive to defy powers greater than ourselves (gravity, for starters) and to outwit random […]

Freeicecream.network by h0tclub

WHAT: h0tclub presents Freeicecream.network – an experimental multimedia livestream that explores how our desire for connection and delicious treats entangles us with networks of information technologies. Free ice cream not […]

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 […]

Book Review: Defining Radical Bodies

When someone says “radical change,” I wonder which definition they are using for “radical.” The word can refer to an approach that comes from outliers, one that challenges existing views, […]

95 WORDS FOR ANNA HALPRIN

Editor’s Note: As a way to further contribute to the 95 Rituals project that offers a variety of opportunities to pay tribute to the work of Anna Halprin, In Dance […]

Secondary Scores in Improvisations: Opening up the Space with Improvisation as Performance

The Unspoken Scores in Improvisation as Performance In a dance form that requires a heightened sense of patience, self motivation, confidence, risk taking, and willingness to fail (as well as […]