In Dance Article Archive

An archive of articles and news, drawn from back issues of In Dance and other sources, on topics that interest and affect the dance field at the regional, national and […]

Jérôme Bel and Myself: A Choreographer Interrogating Dance

For one night in March, French choreographer Jérôme Bel comes to San Francisco to present his work Pichet Klunchun and Myself. More a performance work about dance than it is […]

Welcome, Mar 2010

Creating space for dance—whether real or imagined—is what makes a dance a dance. This is a timeless theme in our community, whether the tradition comes from the Judson via Halprin […]

In Conversation with Dance Monks’ Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty: Examining Natural Environments Through Interdisciplinary Performance

Water is essential. It sustains; it cleanses; it feeds; it restores. It makes all life possible. In recent months, these realities have hit particularly close to home as we have faced and […]

Welcome

THE RANGE AND QUALITY OF DANCE PERFORMANCES presented in the Bay Area continues to expand, and that’s the truly good news, but the challenge remains that all too frequently, many […]

New Art Things in a New Art Space: KUNST-STOFF’s Home

FIVE STORIES ABOVE A HIP SHOE STORE and the hustle of tourists, shoppers and panhandlers in downtown San Francisco there is a long calm room filled with light and 2500 […]

ONSITE: Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat

95 Rituals was a site-specific performance work by Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat, dedicated to Anna Halprin, a visionary artist whose work radically expanded the purpose, process, and content of dance-making over seven decades. 95 Rituals […]

Welcome, September 2014

While tackling domestic responsibilities, I multi-task, listening on the radio to music, news, game shows, and the wonderful tales presented on programs like This American Life. A few weeks ago, while paying […]

Bay Area Community Colleges: Great Teaching, Great Value

In the nine Bay Area counties, there are at least 17 colleges (the difficulty in counting comes from the fact that some have branches, while others have campuses and other […]

Love ONSITE: Finding Love Everywhere in San Francisco

Anyone lucky enough to be at San Francisco’s City Hall on February 12, 2004, witnessed something extraordinary: The legal marriages of same-sex couples as well as heterosexual ones—along with the […]