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 […]

Health Care Volunteers Work to Keep You Dancing

Are you aware that there is a Healthy Dancers’ Clinic (HDC) at ODC Dance Commons for the Dance community? The clinic is open to all ages, disciplines of dance and […]

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 […]

Effective Use of Social Media

You probably don’t need me to tell you how quickly the media landscape has changed, but a study published this past summer by Arbitron, makes it clear that social media […]