Reality in Black Swan or Just a Lot of B.S.?

NOTE: SPOILER ALERT It’s an understatement to say that everyone is talking about Black Swan. The reviews have been out and widespread since it opened in December. Natalie Portman has […]

Keeping On Keeping On

This speech was delivered on June 3, 2009 at the Opening Plenary of Dance/USA’s annual conference in Houston, Texas, the theme of which was “Sustainable Future: Reality Check.” Originally a […]

Uplift Quotient: Flyaway Builds a Bridge, July/ Aug 2009

“One thing that happened,” Jo Kreiter says, “was that I had a child, and so I spent many months just sitting in a yellow rocking chair.” This hardly sounds like […]

Aging

I didn’t start my professional dance training until I was almost 20. Since I had been a good party dancer and athlete all through school, I thought I would be […]

Seventy-five and Wildly Alive: San Francisco Ballet Commissions Ten New Works

San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson could have chosen to make the company’s 75th anniversary an exercise in self-glorification and nostalgia. Instead, he’s taking a gamble on the future. […]

Dance Discourse Project #1

Bay Area Dance: Who Are We Now? Mary Armentrout spoke with Keith Hennessy, Jez Kuono`ono Lee, Laura Elaine Ellis, and paige starling sorvillo. In this first installment of a ongoing […]

From Stage to Screen; Bromberg Forges New Directions, July/ Aug 2007

An interview with the University of Utah’s Assistant Professor of Modern Dance on her focus career and the upcoming Dancers’ Group International Dance Film Screening in SF.

Funny, You Don’t Look Dancerish

The following article is the third in our series on body image and dance, and originally appeared in the New York Times’ Arts and Leisure section on May 20, 2007.

Making Video Make Sense

Jessica Robinson focuses on the merging of film and live performance and how this movement affects the futures of these art forms.

What Exactly is Community-Based Dance?, Oct 2007

From dance classes with prisoners, to after-school programs, to participatory rituals and multi-generational performance projects, Community-based dance can take a wide variety of forms. Here I explore the roots of […]