Innerspace : Homecoming

Were you voted most artistic in high school? Best smile? Biggest flirt? Most likely to succeed? Star students and new kids alike are invited to CounterPulse’s annual art party and […]

Speak: RACE

1968 was a tumultuous year: Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated; the Vietnam War was losing support; Muhammad Ali was found guilty of draft evasion; and Apartheid in South Africa […]

The Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble (KKDE): Momentum In-Love

KKDE Presents an episodic dance-theater evening with KKDE Members & Guest Artists, virtually. The choreographic works explore scenes of love, romance, and passion for the self through direct and indirect […]

Kinetech Arts and ODC Theater Co-Present: Passage

Kinetech Arts and ODC Theater Co-Present: Passage Saturday, October 23, 2021, 5-9 PM PT; Sunday, October 24, 2021, 2-6 PM PT *Audience members are invited to enter the space every 30 minutes […]

Building Digital Parallelity for the Performing Arts: In Conversation with Stephen Backer, Co-Founder & CEO of 2ndline.tv

 (left to right) Stephen Backer, Lucas Gonze, Jacob Ritvo / Photo Courtesy of 2ndline.tv Creativity permeates the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Its tech startup culture attracts smart, driven individuals and encourages risk-taking, experimentation […]

Sustaining the Field Through Change: Facilitate Community by Releasing Control

Reluctance to embrace innovation holds the field of dance in stasis. This reluctance (or hesitation) limits outreach, spreading and feeding what many call “fear of change.” My interest lies in […]

A Love Letter to San Francisco: A Dancer’s Understanding of Home

Photo by Queering Beauty. [ID: Jesse stands in front of a red sequin curtain while wearing a checkered rainbow button up shirt. Jesse’s hands are inside his pockets as he […]

Cracked Open: Reflection on Moving the Body-Brain, Moving the Brain-Body – a danced lecture

Prompted by Dominic’s creative matchmaking, Paul and I had a conversation via Zoom that allowed us to speak about our dance-making as a way of engaging with and transforming difficult legacies that are invariably written on and encoded in our bodies.

Welcome

Imagine a society—a world—that enables and ensures each person can live and create without money. I hope and dream about this. It will be an equalizing time when every individual […]

What is Ethnic Dance?: Questions and Reflections from a “Post Multiculturalism” Conversation

Let’s face it, like it or not, traditional and ethnic dance forms around the globe are changing. I doubt there’s any dance style that’s performed exactly as it was 50 […]