13th Annual: Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance!

A Juneteenth Celebration! Join Grown Women Dance Collective as they continue to celebrate the newly-minted federal holiday of Juneteenth with movement classes, panels, and a grand concert performance. ALL VIRTUAL! ALL […]

Cracked Open: Reflection on Moving the Body-Brain, Moving the Brain-Body – a danced lecture

Prompted by Dominic’s creative matchmaking, Paul and I had a conversation via Zoom that allowed us to speak about our dance-making as a way of engaging with and transforming difficult legacies that are invariably written on and encoded in our bodies.

Non Stop Bhangra Presents: “Crash An Indian Wedding Party”

Have you ever wanted to crash an Indian Wedding Party?! Here’s your chance! After 2+ years, Bay Area award winning production Non Stop Bhangra brings its favorite theme back to […]

Leaning into the Unexpected: The vulnerability and willingness of anthropology and performance

When I tell people I study performance as an anthropology major at college, many consider the two an odd mix.

25th Anniversary San Francisco Trans Film Festival

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) celebrates the 25th anniversary year of its annual festival dedicated to films by transgender and gender-nonconforming filmmakers, highlighting innovative, experimental, and outside-the-box films.  […]

Life During Life and The Glade

Live Online Screening of Paufve Dance films “Life During Life” and “The Glade” followed by artist Q&A with Randee Paufve, Julia Sweeney (videographer) and Sima Belmar (ODC writer-in-residence) Paufve Dance […]

Eavesdropping on a Chat Between Rosanna Gamson and Niloufar Talebi about Layla Means Night

THIS FALL, I will be ringleading the ten performances of Layla Means Night premiering at ODC Theater (October 30-November 3, 2013). Layla is a re-imagining of Director/Choreographer/Auteur Rosanna Gamson’s earlier […]

PUSHfest Global: 7 Livestreams

Join PUSH for PUSHfest Global, an online festival featuring 18 choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond, over 7 Livestreams, Wednesdays at 6 PM PST October 7 – November 18. […]

Bay Area Community Colleges: Great Teaching, Great Value

In the nine Bay Area counties, there are at least 17 colleges (the difficulty in counting comes from the fact that some have branches, while others have campuses and other […]

Ten Tips for Individual Appeal Letters

At some point in our careers as artists we come face-to-face with fundraising for our creative projects. This can be thrilling and exhilarating—serving as a rite-of-passage into the next phase […]