Studies on Aging Performing Artists

The following is a reprinting of an executive summary written on an ongoing research project regarding aging artists in America, what the project has been finding, and where the research […]

Philanthropy Future/Present

Ten years from now: these things I know. New program officers will think they are smarter and funnier than their predecessors. Foundations will have undergone (at least once) strategic planning […]

A New Type of Franchise in Los Angeles: CHIME program expands

After three years of running his own dance company, Bradley Michaud took a good, hard look at his accomplishments and asked himself a question. “Have I found my voice or […]

Not Your Typical Tap: The Bay Area Tap Festival

The eighth annual Bay Area Tap Festival hits the boards August 16-22. A rapid-fire week of workshop classes, free panel discussions, and community showcase performances, all hosted by Alonzo King […]

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center: Celebrating a Half-Century of Making Dance and Community

In 1958, dance class was $2 at the studio Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson started above a liquor store on College Avenue in Berkeley. Adjusted for inflation, that means they […]

A Conversation with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

The following is an exchange between former Urban Bush Women Associate Artistic Director and dancer Amara Tabor Smith and Urban Bush Women’s founder and Director, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Zollar […]

Fain Opens the Flood Gates

In Dance talks with Liss Fain on Vermeer, Opera, and her upcoming film collaboration at YBCA

The Wave of Things to Come

When the Republicans swept into power in the early 1980s they brought with them a fanatical commitment to business. Everything fit under the imperial umbrella of the marketplace, and everything […]

Curtain Up on ODC

After 27 straight years housing some of San Francisco’s most memorable dance performances, ODC Theater will be going black at the end of this year. The theater, whose programming needs […]

Dance Criticism; The Relationship Between Critics and Artists

This is an abbreviated version of an essay on the role of dance critics in the dance art world. It began as a course paper, and has grown over the past few months through conversations with choreographer Kegan Marling.