The Nawkhatt in My Mother’s Living Room

Come, I am lovesick and desolate without you Come and see how sick I am in this sorrow without you At night I lament your absence, oh fairy-faced, And when […]

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 […]

Did You Know?: Khala Brannigan

Khala Brannigan is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico and alumna of the LINES Ballet Training Program. She founded Brannigan Dance Works in 2013 and has shared work at […]

SPEAK

Edited by Zackary Forcum No matter where I go I can’t help being informed and infused by the culture, architecture, history, and resonance of an area and its people. This […]

On Traditional Ohlone Land: Dancing Earth at Alcatraz

“As contemporary people we’re taking the responsibility to create the songs and dances that speak to our time now…and creating intertribal and global indigenous relationships, and creating new languages of […]

Welcome

Each new year offers opportunity to illuminate ideas, instigate new ideologies. A chance to be inspired so we can inspire. Dancers’ Group’s staff brings in 2019 with responses to the […]

In Practice: Later Alastair Macaulay

This article is modeled after outgoing New York Times chief dance critic Alastair Macaulay’s January 10, 2019 letter to the Dance Magazine editor[1] about Emma Sandall’s January 7, 2019 piece, […]

Purity of Cumbia: Talking with John Jairo Roldán about sustaining the “mother of all rhythm”

It is an early Sunday evening in late March, and I’m sitting on a barstool at Spats in Berkeley where two large screen TVs are showing two different NCAA championship […]

In Practice: Performing Twinship: Molly & Aviva Rose-Williams

On January 25, 2018, Molly and Aviva Rose-Williams performed Side by Side at Paufve Dance’s 8x8x8 performance series at The Uptown in Oakland. I was there that night and have […]

In Practice: Meet Talli Jackson

Photo by Eric Polizer I grew up in Brooklyn (New York, not Wisconsin; if you think the clarification is unnecessary, you’ve never been to Wisconsin). And this is what it […]