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 […]

SPEAK: The Practice of Conjure Art in the Making of EarthBodyHOME

AS A DANCE MAKER over the past ten years, my work has been in an evolutionary state. I have resisted the confines of existing labels though I realize most funders and some […]

Welcome

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, […]

Artist Residencies as Homes for Community-building and Risk-taking

IN THE RECENTLY-RELEASED documentary about Yvonne Rainer called Feelings are Facts, one statement reveals a key element in the artistic explorations of the 1960s: Steve Paxton says that he had […]

FINDING FLAMENCO: A Crash Course

I RECENTLY WENT on an artistic scavenger hunt. Or maybe it was more of a fact-finding mission. The goal – learn about flamenco dance in the Bay Area. The timeline […]

BLESSED UNREST: A Festival of Possibilities at the Intersection of Social Justice and Performance

IN A TIME of spiraling inequality, discontent and violence, the sometimes vapory subject of art’s relation to social justice takes on a cold, sober, even urgent aspect. As in the […]

Dance Discourse Project #21

Dreaming The Future Landscape Thu, Jan 14, 7:30pm Center for New Music, SF FREE DDP and the FRESH Festival joined forces to ask expansively, poetically and pragmatically: what can a […]

Dance Discourse Project #22

Dance Discourse Project 22:  animal, human, posthuman Mon, Mar 28, 2o16 7:30pm CounterPulse, 80 Turk St, SF FREE Taxonomies have boxed in humans (and in particular certain humans) as separate […]

Creative Thinking: Graduate Students Embark from Saint Mary’s College

As a faculty member at Saint Mary’s College of California and the director of the Creative Practice MFA in Dance program, I am excited to announce our first graduating class who […]

Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Expectations: A Conversation with Lucia August

Writing about today’s dance scene, I notice that I use certain phrases pretty often. Things like ‘questioning assumptions’ or ‘challenging expectations’. Sometimes these words are a response to innovative physical vocabulary; […]