Tips on Writing a Letter of Intent (LOI) and Grant Application

DOS AND DON’TS Planning is key to success. Think carefully about your outline and proposal. Talk about your ideas with staff and colleagues. Good writing does not usually happen in […]

Discovering Traditions Outside Our Own Communities

FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES I have been trained in Kathak, a classical dance of North India, under the tutelage of my GuruJi, Pandit Chitresh Das. Taking his class for the […]

A Journey Home with Mamady Keita: How Codification of Dance Changes the Form

In December 2007, I had the opportunity to travel with Mamady Keita to his native village of Balandougou in Guinea, West Africa. Mamady Keita is the most celebrated djembe player […]

In Practice: Mahealani Uchiyama

This month the Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance celebrates its 25th anniversary. And although no institution, especially an arts institution, makes it to 25 years without the toil and […]

What is Ethnic Dance?: Questions and Reflections from a “Post Multiculturalism” Conversation

Let’s face it, like it or not, traditional and ethnic dance forms around the globe are changing. I doubt there’s any dance style that’s performed exactly as it was 50 […]

5 Minutes to Change the World Cabaret

COVID has changed how we work.  But art can change how we think. Standing in the shards of the past and wading through the post-pandemic possibility, Springboard Performance asks Calgary, […]

What’s in a Conversation?

“We had an incredible Practitioner Exchange last night!” I tell my Luna colleagues, “I laughed, I even cried, we danced around, and the conversation just flowed.” I realize as I’m saying this, that I’m not fully describing the depth of the discussion, and that in fact, it sounds a bit trite.

Instilling Life-Long Pasion: In Conversation with Elvia Marta and Annie Parr

When I set out to talk with local dance teachers, my aim was to bring more attention to the many great and dedicated teachers we have here in the San Francisco Bay […]

Heavens’ Coming to the Bay: An Interview with Miguel Gutierrez

Arriving on the West Coast in June, as part of a teaching/performing tour, Miguel Gutierrez will present his newest work, HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE; the piece has been performed […]

Dances for Doing Live Performance + Screening

In response to Jen Bervin’s exhibition Doing and Undoing, Catharine Clark Gallery, BOXBLUR, and San Francisco Dance Film Festival present a new commissioned dance work by New York-based choreographer Catherine Galasso. Galasso […]