Navigating the Storm: A Conversation with KT Nelson About Dead Reckoning

Dominating recent headlines, the scientific world is now in unanimous agreement that 2014 was the warmest year on record, thus bringing back to the table the burning issues—no pun intended—of […]

Innovation Within Tradition: Covering the Annual Classical Indian Dance Festival

IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD, the words “classical” and “traditional” in terms of dance are often oversimplified and misinterpreted as “old” or “fixed.” Classical Indian Dance is no exception. Unfortunately for […]

Eavesdropping on a Chat Between Rosanna Gamson and Niloufar Talebi about Layla Means Night

THIS FALL, I will be ringleading the ten performances of Layla Means Night premiering at ODC Theater (October 30-November 3, 2013). Layla is a re-imagining of Director/Choreographer/Auteur Rosanna Gamson’s earlier […]

Put Yourself On the Beam

An email exchange between guest editor Rowena Richie and butoh legend Hiroko Tamano 

Building Sisterhood Through Movement

Nava Dance Collective, photo by Laura Soriano A cooperative with multiple contributors. An array of artistic perspectives and voices. A desire for an alternative, more egalitarian structure. A common passion for […]

SPEAK: Reaching Further

I was first introduced to Della Davidson’s work when she was a performer and choreographer with the San Francisco Moving Company (1983-86). Whenever viewing her work I was struck by the […]

Unleashing Dance’s Potential

Lying on a clean wood floor in a light-filled room in Germany, with 80 leaders from 22 countries; I am asked to take 20 minutes to breath and pay attention […]

Art Meets Life: The 30th Annual Planetary Dance

At the end of the movie Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock’s character tearfully confesses that she really does want world peace. Okay, it’s a little silly—and I’m not embarrassed to admit […]

Space to Speak

It was Agent Betty that I saw first. I was traveling home on BART, listening to some 1980’s rock music when they stepped into my mind and stood in front of a well-armed police station.

Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers: 閩橋 Min Bridges: stories from the Malay World, Taiwan, and mainland China

The Min Languages form the basis of Taiwanese, Hokkien, Teochew, and Hainanese. For most of the 20th and 21st centuries, Min languages have been looked down upon as dialects: students […]