Finding Center Between East and West: A Conversation with Tara Catherine Pandeya

When Tara Catherine Pandeya first landed in Tajikistan last year, she only planned to spend a month in the country. Almost 11 months later, she lives in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital, […]

The Art of Storytelling: Kathak’s Evolving Connection to Religion

Religion is very personal, and yet, since the beginning of time, it has been of great influence to societal structure at just about every level, including the arts. For many dance forms, […]

In a New Place: Dance & Disability in 2018

The San Francisco Bay Area is known to be on the vanguard of what is possible in dance, who dances, where, and how. Because of the work of AXIS Dance […]

NEW VIEW: Jiten Daiko

Taiko is a broad term for Japanese percussion, but here in the U.S., the word tends to refer to a form of highly physical drumming performance. While largely a musical […]

10 Tips to Publicize Your Work

In a world where press, social media and electronic communications prevail and sometimes collide, there are more options than ever to promote or publicize who you are and what you […]

Dances Sung, Songs Moved: Fog Beast Serves it Up in The Big Reveal

I just want to infect you Crawl into your brain Sprout up out your head Into the sunlight that I need so bad It’s okay I’ll find my way Over […]

Supporting One Educator at a Time, Over Time

By 6pm on the last Tuesday of any given month, you’ll find a Luna Dance Institute faculty member in a sweat and speed-talking as they jog back-and-forth from their office […]

Dancers Choice Award 2018 – Carla Service

A salute to movement. A glimpse into this region’s rich, diverse dance community. Bay Area Dance Week is back! From April 27-May 6, dance professionals, enthusiasts and fans will gather […]

Sailing Away: Joanna Haigood Choreographs San Francisco History

Flooded with Gold Rush lucre and teeming with the adventurers who hunted for it, San Francisco in the 1850s was a rootin’-tootin’, quick-shootin’, prostitutin’ Wild West boomtown. Halloween in the […]

Across State Lines—New Direction, Comes New Information

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and after three years of focusing on navigating the rocky shores of academic life, I have […]