Welcome

WHAT BRINGS YOU DEEP JOY? This question was the opening ice-breaker of a board retreat I was recently a part of for Emerging Arts Professionals1. The question caught me off-guard, […]

PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE GUNA OF PANAMA: Mark the Closing of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition

ON DECEMBER 4, 1915, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition closed its gates forever after 18 million people had visited the 635-acre World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Marina District. Many people consider […]

Images as Inspiration

In 2013, choreographers Christy Funsch and Peiling Kao held a performance in the former Meridian Gallery on Powell Street, where they danced in response to new paintings by British postmodernist Abby […]

Isadora Duncan Archive

The Isadora Duncan Archive is a digital resource which brings the legacy of pioneering modern dance icon Isadora Duncan to a 21st century dance community. It features rare historical and […]

A Conversation on Women in the Arts

Patty Berne is a co-founder and executive director of Sins Invalid (sinsinvalid.org), a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with […]

Weaving a Future for Inclusive Dance: Integrating Disability Into the Dance World

This article originally appeared in Dance/USA’s eJournal, From the Green Room, on March 22, 2016, and is reprinted here with kind permission. Dance/USA, the national service organization for the professional […]

Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Expectations: A Conversation with Lucia August

Writing about today’s dance scene, I notice that I use certain phrases pretty often. Things like ‘questioning assumptions’ or ‘challenging expectations’. Sometimes these words are a response to innovative physical vocabulary; […]

Vital Resources to Consider to Support Dance Artists

The dance community has an amazing ally, The Actors Fund, and they have long supported the field in ways that help manage the demands of a life in dance. Check […]

Did You Know? Highlighting the Activity of Artists/Organizations in Our Region: Kinetech Arts

Kinetech Arts is a collective of artists, scientists and technologists, born at KUNST-STOFF arts in January 2013. The word Kinetech is the combination of Kine-sthesia and Tech-nology and is envisioned […]

SPEAK by Emiko Saraswati Susilo

Once upon a time, there lived a brave warrior, heir to the throne of Manipur. The King of Manipur raised his heir to be a fearless warrior, a skilled politician […]