January/February 2017

Welcome by Dancers’ Group Staff Krissy Keefer Charges Forward on the Cusp of a Fifth Decade: A New Space for Dance Mission Theater and Dance Brigade by Rita Felciano Sanctuary Spaces: […]

March 2017

Welcome by Michelle Lynch Reynolds Building Sisterhood through Movement by Heather Desaulniers Gaining Perspectives, Changing Perceptions – Article #2: Our World in Constant Motion by Farah Yasmeen Shaikh Sharing History, Making History: Michelle Dorrance […]

Notes from an Invited Spy: My RSVP to 95 Rituals

“…How am I even going to write about this emerging, unfolding thing?…” I wrote this after my first day observing theater and dance company inkBoat in rehearsal for 95 Rituals, […]

Synchronous Objects: What Else Might Dance Look Like?: An Interview with Professor Norah Zuniga-Shaw

Back in college, while in one of my countless rehearsals I remember thinking, “I wonder what areas of the stage we use the most?” Little did I know that this […]

SPEAK

Edited by Zackary Forcum No matter where I go I can’t help being informed and infused by the culture, architecture, history, and resonance of an area and its people. This […]

Pilot: Start-up Strategies for 2013

This article discusses the Pilot Program, ODC’s long-running incubator for emerging artists, and contextualizes how it functions within the San Francisco Bay Area as well as the larger dance community, […]

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 […]

Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change

Dancing Care In April 2021, right after we’d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator.  We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]

Curating Performance in East Bay: Spotlight on Four Artist Groups

As most young artists discover, making the art is only half the work. Bringing the art to people involves a particular method to the madness. Commissions, showcases, residencies and co-productions, […]

Cal Performances Deepens its Commitment to Dance

Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Flyaway Productions, ODC/Dance, Dorrance Dance – such an astounding collection of dance artists recently hosted at Cal Performances. And that was just during the […]