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Curating a Collision
“It is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determine the place and the stakes of politics as a […]
A Red Thread: Creating Dance Across Cultures and Politics, Sept 2008
San Francisco, May 9, 2008 Abby Chen of the Chinese Cultural Center, invited me to create a site-specific improvisation on the bridge that crosses through Chinatown into downtown San Francisco. […]
WestWave Dance Festival Artists Speak
In addition to our interview with Joanna Haigood, we asked the 45 artists participating in this year’s DanceWaves and Film Night to offer up a first person perspective—or in grant-speak, […]
Demystifying the Art of Presenting
As a presenter for nearly 30 years now, the question I get asked by artists, more than any other, is, “How do I get my work presented?” Sometimes it’s directed […]
The Shifting Cornerstone: WestWave Splashes into the Streets, July/ Aug 2008
Joanna Haigood, the Artistic Director of San Francisco based Zaccho Dance Theater, is a well-known creator of site specific apparatus based dance. She has been creating work world-wide on various […]
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 […]
Reflections from the Community
To compliment the articles in this issue that pay tribute to the 30th Anniversary of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival we put a call out to the community in […]
Finding the Way: Kumu Hula Makuakane Choreographs the Story of Ancestral Navigation
When World Arts West executive director Julie Mushet approached Patrick Makuakane with the idea of commissioning a dance piece based on Hawaiian astronomy and Maui, the ancestral Polynesian navigator, the […]
The Emperor’s Old Clothes?: Reflections on Thirty Years of the Ethnic Dance Festival
Upfront: here is my disclaimer and confession. I owe much to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF), which marks 30 years of presenting this June. I have lived on […]
What’s in a Name: The Legacy of Everybody’s Creative Art Center
The 1970s were a time in America when black people awakened to their African heritage and were taking on new names more fitting their history and characters. For dancer and […]
