Ballet22: Breaking Ground

Enjoy a spectacular evening of dance performed by Ballet22 from the comfort of your home! The program will include the re-envisioned Sugar Plum Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker, Juntos a […]

Arts and Politics: Where are We?

“Every grand American accomplishment, every innovation that has benefited and enriched our lives, every lasting social transformation, everything that has from the start made America the world capital of hope, […]

Dance In San Francisco; Observations and Attitudes

The following article was published in Movement Research Journal #31, Summer 2007, New York City. San Francisco, the left coast, the endpoint of western expansion and escape. Being a port […]

Musings on The People’s Palace

Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre is also an ancient art that portrays the living bodies of a place in motion, flight, and proximity to the stories that become enshrined built and unbuilt places upon the earth.

Arts Leadership and a Healthy Arts Community

I think it was sometime back in the ’90s when the arts field first started talking about a crisis of future leadership. We looked around and saw a LOT of […]

Juneteenth: A Celebration to Remember

It was June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas. Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger arrived with news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were […]

Gaining Perspectives, Changing Perceptions – Article #3: The Illusion of Borders

EDITORS NOTE: In this ongoing series for In Dance Farah Yasmeen Shaikh writes about her experiences as a Pakistani Muslim-American woman Kathak artist and her work teaching and performing in […]

SPEAK: future friend/ships

Jassem Hindi “Irony is about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humor and serious play. It is also […]

Online Salsa Class w/ Ava Apple

Join Ava on Wednesdays 7-8pm and Fridays 2-3pm FREE Online SALSA for Beginners FREE ONLINE SALSA SHINES (Footwork) Class – level I/II FREE Online Salsa for Kids No partnerwork so […]

A Virtual Concept: Taking a New Look at Technology and Networking in Artist Residencies

CounterPULSE wanted to try something new with Performing Diaspora to better support work from artists, document the process of production and to interact with audiences. We created a virtual artist […]