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New Visions in Korean Dance: Kyoungil Ong and Hearan Chung create community and dances that inspire
Two major choreographic forces in the Bay Area’s Korean dance community offer their work to honor the 30th Anniversary of San Francisco’s Ethnic Dance Festival this month. Weekend One presents […]
Behind the Curtains: Everything you need to know about making it into the Ethnic Dance Festival, June 2008
Light jingles from brass bells of Indian dancers merge into the clank of the Philippine’s bamboo sticks, which provide the undertone to bellowing calls of the Congolese drums that resonate […]
The Bay Area’s Summer Performances: Theatrical adventures for any taste
If you want to experience the real Bay Area dance scene in all its breadth, depth, variety, and just-get-up-and-move wildness, you may have to come in the summer. True, September […]
What’s a Live Film Festival?: And other fun questions like: Milkbar, a new organic drink or a collective of artists?
This September 12 through 14 MilkBar will be taking over the new Oakland Noodle Factory Arts Center for the 2008 MilkBar International Live Film Festival. The MilkBar Film Festival is […]
A New Type of Franchise in Los Angeles: CHIME program expands
After three years of running his own dance company, Bradley Michaud took a good, hard look at his accomplishments and asked himself a question. “Have I found my voice or […]
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center: Celebrating a Half-Century of Making Dance and Community
In 1958, dance class was $2 at the studio Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson started above a liquor store on College Avenue in Berkeley. Adjusted for inflation, that means they […]
One Website under California with Profiles and Resources for all, May 2008
Starting this May, every dance group in California from the San Francisco Ballet to the local community center hip hop group will have access to a powerful new tool for […]
Moving Arts is Moving Up: New Space in the East Bay
A drive through the industrial parks on Whitman Road in Concord looks, frankly, unpromising. But dance has a way of making a home in the unlikeliest of places, and out […]
Hearan Chung’s Eternal Dance: Review: February 23, 2008
I first met Hearan Chung six years ago. The dancer, recently arrived from South Korea, was living with her two children in an apartment in Millbrae, and I drove down […]
A Conversation with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
The following is an exchange between former Urban Bush Women Associate Artistic Director and dancer Amara Tabor Smith and Urban Bush Women’s founder and Director, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Zollar […]
