The Artistic Ensemble at San Quentin Prison

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2013, the Insight Prison Project, a Restorative Justice organization, approached artists and educators Amie Dowling and Freddy Gutierrez about their desire to bring a dance theater workshop […]

In Practice: Borderlines

Every day my inbox receives announcements for interdisciplinary conferences on migration, conferences that investigate “the performative role of the document in controlling the movement of bodies across borders” or the […]

June 2017

Welcome by Edgar Mendez Artistry, Engagement and Advocacy with AXIS Dance Company by Rita Felciano In Practice: Stephan Koplowitz on Making Site Work by Sima Belmar Create, Reflect, Advocate, Repeat by Jochelle Pereña In […]

Dance Educators Create Systemic Change

Dance teachers create change. Daily we enter classrooms, centers, and studios motivated to share our passion with students who eagerly await the chance to move and liberate their bodies. In […]

A Lifetime Of Achievement for Lily Cai

The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and as part of the festivities, the Festival will be awarding the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement award […]

Zaccho Dance Theatre’s Aerial Arts Festival

An extraordinary public event approaches. Thrill seekers, arts enthusiasts, hard to please skeptics, this spectacle will not disappoint. Come August – if the crisp, bay breeze at Fort Mason Center […]

In Practice: Mahealani Uchiyama

This month the Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance celebrates its 25th anniversary. And although no institution, especially an arts institution, makes it to 25 years without the toil and […]

Speak: Beyond Gravity

with jose e. abad, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Gabriel Christian, Abby Crain, and Rachael Dichter Founded in 2000 by Jess Curtis, ‘Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc.’ has primarily functioned as the vehicle for […]

SPEAK: To Witness and Re-member: Movement Practices with Elders

As dancers over 65, we have been leading free movement and dance explorations in Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery for the past four years as part of our project Walking in Witness […]

Setting Skywatchers’ “At the Table”: Connection, Empowerment, and Art at the Margins

Melanie DeMore is leading a procession from the Tenderloin to San Francisco City Hall. It’s the last Saturday in October, a little more than a week before Election Day, and […]