Bring Your Best Social Self to #DanceUSAconf

This year you will not get a folder filled with schedules, bios, and panel descriptions. Instead, organizers chose the eco-friendly option and made a mobile app that will contain your […]

AXIS’ Scope: What Lies Ahead

Three years ago I had the opportunity to dance with AXIS as a community dancer in David Dorfman’s Light Shelter. The experience was pivotal. Coming from a dance background steeped […]

Museum of Performance and Design: The Next Chapter

Adjacent to the opulence and grandeur of the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall lies a quiet, hidden jewel in San Francisco’s performing arts crown–the Museum of Performance […]

CHIME 2013: Time to Get a Witness

To work with a mentor, to be in the presence of “a wise and trusted counselor,” sounds like an advantage reserved only for royalty. As an artist, to have the […]

Carolena Nericcio Fuses Forms to Inspire New Generations of Belly Dancers

The sun never sets on American Tribal Style Belly Danceยฎ. From Sydney to Stockholm, and Tel-Aviv to Taipei, one can find an American Tribal Styleยฎ (ATSยฎ) class in more than […]

SPEAK By Seth Eisen

By Seth Eisen I came to the Bay Area in 1994 as a recent graduate of Naropa University with a degree in performance and a background in visual arts. I […]

Abadรก Capoeira: the Spirit of Brazil

By Mary Ellen Hunt โ€œI want the pieces to flow like water from one to the next,โ€ says Mรกrcia Treidler, evoking a serpentine image of a river of music, dance […]

Creating Space for Hip Hop: A Spotlight on Micaya & SoulForce

I remember first meeting Micaya backstage when I was volunteering for the San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in November 2010. Glamorous in […]

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, […]

Collaborative Improvisation in Media and Dance

Erika Tsimbrovsky and Avy K Productions place visual art on equal footing with music and dance, creating a perfect environment for exploring the relationship between movement and image. Performances are […]