In Conversation with Vanessa Sanchez

Who’s getting funded and who has access to getting funded? And really looking at a lot of my mentors in the Bay Area and beyond who…have changed and shaped communities and done this work for decades and decades and decades, but because of resources and because of language barriers, they aren’t necessarily able to apply and receive the funding they should be. With that, I just felt it really important in that I don’t want to be one of the only ones from the Bay Area – in our kind of world of dancers of color who are coming from dance forms from traditionally Black and brown communities – I don’t want to be one of the only ones getting this. There are so many more people who need and deserve this – this funding.

In Conversation with Erik Lee

I’m very much so interested in this idea of opening new – it’s not a reopening, I’m not trying to return to the way things were before – I’m really invested in how we move forward.

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 […]

In Conversation: David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes

You are reading excerpts from David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes’ recorded conversation. Listen to the conversation. Transcript of the full conversation

10 in 10 with Alyssa Mitchel

You are reading excerpts from Andréa Spearman’s recorded conversation with Alyssa Mitchel 10 in 10 theme music: Bright, upbeat pop music that you may hear in a teen-centered drama series. […]

dancing close to home

My mom lives alone, about a thirty minute drive away, in the condo complex where my two sisters and I grew up. There’s a sprawling rosemary bush out front, planted […]

The Joffrey Ballet

Gerald Arpino/Birthday Variations (1986; music: Giuseppe Verdi) Chanel DaSilva/Swing Low (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Zoe Keating) Nicolas Blanc/Under the Trees’ Voices (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Ezio Bosso) Itzik […]

The Joffrey Ballet

Gerald Arpino/Birthday Variations (1986; music: Giuseppe Verdi) Chanel DaSilva/Swing Low (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Zoe Keating) Nicolas Blanc/Under the Trees’ Voices (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Ezio Bosso) Itzik […]

The Joffrey Ballet

Gerald Arpino/Birthday Variations (1986; music: Giuseppe Verdi) Chanel DaSilva/Swing Low (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Zoe Keating) Nicolas Blanc/Under the Trees’ Voices (West Coast Premiere; 2021; music: Ezio Bosso) Itzik […]

In Conversation

In Conversation is a series of interviews exploring intergenerational conversations about dance and different folks’ relationship to dance. I’ve been thinking a lot about consequential strangers, or the people in […]