Kinesthetic Aesthetic: On Explaining Dance to Your Friends & the Outside World

I joke with dancer friends about it all the time. Inevitably we face the pervasive question. You know what it is, it haunts you at parties, lurks behind the wine […]

Glimpses of Nijinskyโ€ฆ100 Years Later

Much celebrated this year is the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilevโ€™s Ballets Russes, the Paris-based company that changed the face of dance in the twentieth century, as well as having […]

Queer Collisions: Personal Interrogations of Life and Performance

I think Iโ€™m queer, but I hesitate to think so. Here are some known facts about my queerness: How I might be queer 1. Iโ€™ve been curated into a queer […]

Becoming A Kathaka: Chitresh Das and the New Generation of Kathak Dancers

STUDY IN THE CLASSICAL NORTH INDIAN DANCE OF KATHAK IS A LIFETIMEโ€™S WORK. From the strength and vigour of the rhythmic footwork and fast-heel chakkars, or pirouettes, to the delicacy, […]

Exploring Visible Intimacy with Ben Levy

With major support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Dancersโ€™ Group has commissioned Benjamin Levy, artistic director of LEVYdance, to create a dance-video performance installation in San Francisco later this month. […]

Pilot in Progress: How We Build a Shared Evening

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010, 8:30AM I walk into ODC Dance Commons for the first meeting of PILOT 56. We sit together in the back office conference room. Kimi Okada, Director […]

Deborah Slater Dance Theater Celebrates 20 Years

Eight dancers move through in an imaginary house, a dream space of empty rooms and corridors. Deborah Slaterโ€™s voice enters their reverie, encouraging them to abandon the notion that they […]

Speak: Supporting Spirit through Bomba and Philanthropy

I was making my way home from the Financial District to the Mission on BART after work; feet pinched by the not-so-comfortable shoes I wore that day as part of […]

A Piece of the Collective Pie: A Slice From the Artist Group: Muse Map Walk

Can you imagine laughing for thirty minutes straight? I mean, straight through. Laughing. Non-stop. No pause. Not stopping to talk or relax for a second. Pure laughter for a whole […]

Thinking Big

OVER THE MANY YEARS that I have been working with artists and arts organizations on institutional fundraising (aka grantwriting), I have learned that one of the most important jobs of […]