An Interview with Joti and Bongo: Painting Cultures and Styles

The upcoming performance, Lanyee, is a ground-breaking spin on a traditional form. This three-show performance features Bongo Sidibe, and Duniya Dance and Drum Company in collaboration with the African Advocacy […]

A Conversation on Inquiry and Performance with Tammy Johnson and Larry Arrington

This year marks the 5th Anniversary of Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s Studio 210 Summer Residency. As an arguably unicornesque opportunity. In a city where rehearsal and performance space rental fees […]

Choros Charas: Shobhakrith – The Annual Recital 2023

Choros Charas – Destination for Arts is a Dance School and Company based in San Francisco that teaches Bharathanatyam, an Indian Classical Dance from around USA and India. We encourage  […]

Lunar New Year x Black History Month Community Celebration 2024

We welcome our community back for another celebration of Asian and African-American solidarity through art, music, and dance. We are thrilled to present this year’s incredible lineup of Black and Asian […]

The Lively Foundation: Ballet Class – Intermediate level

Ballet class, 1 hour, taught by Leslie Friedman – she has taught and choreographed for national ballet companies and academies in USA, China, England, Egypt, S.Korea & adult beginners & […]

Charya Burt: Pop-up Dance Dialogues

Each pop-up program features performers of Indian, Balinese, Cambodian, or Jazz styles looking at art with visitors and a museum educator (or on Sundays, an Art Speak intern), then moving […]

Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art […]

Fall 2023

Read the digital edition: Fall 2023 In Dance For all content, including incredible images, videos, and profiles of Bay Area dance artists and organizations, read in the FlippingBook above. Download […]

Dancing in the Land of Edelweiss: My Adventures in Salzburg

Three months ago I was living the good life. I resided in an apartment in beautiful Oakland, California seven blocks from Lake Merritt with two cats, a boyfriend and another […]

Notes on Rendering Vessels

This writing is an accumulation of reflections on transformation taken from dark/lessons/rupture, an evening of performance excerpts featuring new works by Jess Curtis and Beyond Gravity artists, Silk Worm and RUPTURE (jose e. abad, Gabriele Christian, Stephanie Hewett, Styles Alexander, and Clarissa Dyas), co-presented by Gravity and CounterPulse.