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The Symmetry Project: A non-linear, graphic embodiment of our performance process
LINEAR NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION JESS: Over the last three years Maria and I have created a series of studies we collectively named The Symmetry Project. They have been developed and performed […]
Outer Space to Inner Space: Universal Themes, Very Different Styles
Amara Tabor-Smith/Deep Waters Dance Theater shares a bill with Cathie Caraker and Katarina Eriksson from March 5-7 at CounterPULSE. Upon first reading the descriptions and approaches taken by the artists, […]
Tax Tips For Dancers
Home in Office. If you book your gigs from home and/or rehearse there, you may take the portion of your apartment that is used exclusively and year round for that […]
Jérôme Bel and Myself: A Choreographer Interrogating Dance
For one night in March, French choreographer Jérôme Bel comes to San Francisco to present his work Pichet Klunchun and Myself. More a performance work about dance than it is […]
Longing: The Global Postmodern Poetics of David Roussève’s “Saudade”, Mar 2009
The same moment I discovered how much my body could be hated is the same moment my heart discovered how much I could be loved. This was a life that […]
SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance
I’ve been thinking a lot about how dance occupies this space between the arts and sports and wondering how we as a community could exploit that more. I’m in the […]
SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance
Leaving a recent Fullbright grant meeting, encouraged by the advisor’s response to my project idea, her parting words hit like bricks: “you just have to follow your dream.” I’ve been […]
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 […]
SF Conservatory’s New SoMa Studios: An Expanded Vision for Ballet Education
Summer Lee Rhatigan has just opened a ballet school without mirrors. They teach Gaga. It’s like neo-Europe over there on 8th and Folsom, turning ballet dancers into improv artists, melting […]
SPEAK By Kathleen Hermesdorf
“This is the beginning of the future” I thought, as I awoke this past January 1. 2009 is the year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar, a year of […]