Who Are We?

An overview of a new series called the Talking Dance Project, which aims to create dialogue around topics affecting Bay Area dance.

Ways of Looking; Disability as Ability

An examination of the way audiences, both European and American, approach integrated dance.

Purple Moon Dance Project Turns Spotlight on Lesbian and Women of Color Artists

I came to know the work of the Purple Moon Dance Project within the first few weeks of moving to San Francisco in 2000. Everything was different then: I had […]

Make Friends with the Janitor; And Other Tips for Working in Schools

For dance teaching artists who teach in school settings, this is usually a busy time of year. School classes have begun and although kids have settled into their daily school […]

The Noodle Factory is Dead, Long Live the Noodle Factory

Right now all you can see is beams and plywood walls, but by early 2008 the Oakland Noodle Factory should be a pipe dream made real. Imagine this: eleven live-work […]

First You Must Observe

Shortly after WWII, educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy came together determined to ensure that fascism would never again occur in their country. Hope for the future would lie in the […]

History in the Taping: Confessions of an Accidental Dance Videographer

As I was preparing to write this article about dance documentation, it occurred to me that it has been exactly ten years since Shelley Trott and I started the interviews […]

SPEAK: Beyond Stage Space

When I think of a typical performance experience, I imagine one of the intimate theaters tucked in unlikely locations all over the Bay Area; of being huddled backstage, getting dressed […]

KUNST-STOFF Celebrates 10 years

You can pronounce KUNST-STOFF with a little Germanic β€˜sh’ added to the stoff and a very oo-sounding kunst, and you’ll still only be half-way in the know. Part-two is its […]

SFPALM: New Name, Big Plans

Whether it’s the Opera, the incomparable San Francisco Ballet, ODC Dance, or Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, performances are fleeting and committed to the memories of those who witnessed them. This […]