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Learn how nonprofits can engage and advocate. Bolder Advocacy offers many free ballot measure advocacy resources including: Supporting or Opposing Ballot Measures in California Ballot Measure Activities Exempt from California […]

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I hope youโ€™re well, and I hope youโ€™re safe. For most of 2020 these daily words were written in emails, texts and in posts on social. They do bear repeating: […]

22nd Annual San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest

Featuring the world premiere of a new commissioned work, live performances, a kids dance montage, appearances by VIP guests including RuPaul, Sterling James, Kenichi Ebina, Alicia Garza, and more Micaya […]

Grassroots to Cyberspace: Evolution of Dancing Earth

Birthed from a vision from Founding Artistic Director Rulan Tangen to create global Indigenous contemporary performing arts opportunities, Dancing Earth is rooted with one foot in Yelamu โ€“ occupied Ohlone territory also known as San Francisco, California and the other foot in Ogaa Po Ogeh โ€“ occupied Tewa territory also known as Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Grrrl Brigade, 15 Years of Social-Feminist Dance

Grrrl Brigade is a dance leadership program that fosters female empowerment through dance. Based out of Dance Mission Theater, Dance Brigadeโ€™s Grrrl Brigade has instructed more than 500 girls over […]

Definitions and Connections: A Conversation with Johnnie Cruise Mercer

Editorโ€™s Note: Recently, the National Center for Choreography in Akron, Ohio started a low-residency dance writing laboratory. The lab currently houses a cohort of five writers from around the country, […]

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Frequently entering unknown territory, even dangerous terrain, is a skill artists have cultivated. While working in the unknown can shape an artistic resilience and a tenacity of spiritโ€”indispensable qualities to […]

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Denial, bullying, harassment, along with fears of violence, racism, and many manners of abuse are realities we live with; for a long, too long, much too long time. Proximity provides […]

10 People on 10 Years of Dance Generators in San Francisco

Dance Generators was founded in Massachusetts in 1997 by Amie Dowling, a former member of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. In 2006, Dowling relocated to San Francisco, and in 2007 […]

In Practice: Going Health Nuts

In our usual pre-article email exchange, In Dance editor, Wayne Hazzard wrote to me, โ€œWhat is healthy these days?โ€ I have a very personal stake in this question, which made […]