Z Space Breathes New Life into Theater Artaud

The tall cathedral-like room at the north end of the Theater Artaud lobby is being used as make-shift office space for Z Space and its affiliate companies. My first thought […]

Dance Scholars and Critics Convene in the Bay Area

For four days this June, the Bay Area will become the center of the dance studies universe. The two leading organizations of dance writers, historians and critics, the Society of […]

The Crisis in Criticism: The Economy, the Internet and the Death of Dance Writing, Jun 2009

If you are reading this, odds are you earn at least part of your living working in the arts, or are a committed member of the dance audience. Let me […]

An American in Dรผsseldorf: Shifts in Perspective: Experience at a European Dance Festival

This summer I was invited to join Dance/USA as part of the American delegation at the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, a biennial international dance festival and conference in Dรผsseldorf, Germany. I […]

Laugh and the World Smiles: c(h)ord premieres at YBCA

Humor is perhaps is the most unrecognized aspect in Shinichi Iova-Kogaโ€™s existential explorations of human oddities. Ame to Ame‘s immaculately timed encounters between Iova-Koga and long-time partner Yuko Kasekiโ€”and three […]

Stepping into the In-between

In his latest show, MAHU, San Francisco hula master Patrick Makuakane explores the Hawaiian concept of a fluid gender and an openness to the third self.

To PhD or Not to PhD

An overview of PhD programs across the U.S. and U.K.

Dance Film Comes of Age

A look at the marriage of dance and film. Stephanie Linakis explores this artistic shift, who it interests, and which events in the upcoming year will highlight the use of this medium.

Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces

Updated Sep 21, 2020 Fractured Atlas, the organization that hosts the Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces website โ€” and created the technology โ€” informed their communities that they are ending […]

Welcome, Sep 2012

It has been a busy summer. It started with me waking up one morning with a sharp pain in my lower right abdomen that became appendicitis and within a few […]