SPEAK: How to Ask for Help, Raise Your Ghosts, and Make a Family

Photo by RJ Muna When we were growing up, we went to Hawaii nearly every summer. Our parents grew up on the island of Kauai, as did their parents. Our […]

Creating a New Focus: Dance Education Reform

Where is the place for Dance Education? This is a hard question to unpack and the question can be interpreted in so many ways. From my own experience as a […]

Dance/USA Convenes in Philadelphia

“It’s a small world,” continues to ring in my ears with each connection I make in the dance field, as I often find a friend of a friend or colleague […]

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, […]

Research

Space Alliance Report: Bay Area Artist Space Needs in 2021 | June 2021 In 2018, Dancers’ Group, Intersection for the Arts, and Theatre Bay Area formed a working group to […]

What’s in a Conversation?

“We had an incredible Practitioner Exchange last night!” I tell my Luna colleagues, “I laughed, I even cried, we danced around, and the conversation just flowed.” I realize as I’m saying this, that I’m not fully describing the depth of the discussion, and that in fact, it sounds a bit trite.

Bring Your Best Social Self to #DanceUSAconf

This year you will not get a folder filled with schedules, bios, and panel descriptions. Instead, organizers chose the eco-friendly option and made a mobile app that will contain your […]

Dance IS Intergenerational

The Dance IS Festival not only asks, what is dance?, but enacts, probes, and challenges the question. While considering how dance functions in the East Bay, the festival also explores […]

Welcome, Jul/Aug 2011

Asking for what we need can be an intriguing exercise. Depending on your upbringing, requesting something from someone can be easy, or not. For me, it’s much easier to offer […]

Curating Performance in East Bay: Spotlight on Four Artist Groups

As most young artists discover, making the art is only half the work. Bringing the art to people involves a particular method to the madness. Commissions, showcases, residencies and co-productions, […]