Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC A showcase of 3 LGBTQ+ dance artists sharing new works-in-progress. Live dance performances by JanpiStar, Bernard Brown/bb moves, & Zoe Huey. Bernard […]

Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC A showcase of 3 LGBTQ+ dance artists sharing new works-in-progress. Live dance performances by JanpiStar, Bernard Brown/bb moves, & Zoe Huey. Bernard […]

Moving Across Cultures: Transmitting cultural knowledge through movement language

The effects of dance on the brain have been studied using Western dance forms like ballet, but not with less known forms like Persian/Iranian dance.

Inside Out

Photo by Jason Bowman [ID: Shown at a distance, a person wearing a wetsuit is bent over with a curved spine and their hands almost touching the sand of Ocean […]

CULTIVATING RELATIONSHIP: Randee Paufve Reflects on How Dancing Can be Communicative and Evocative

RANDEE PAUFVEโ€™S PRODUCTION, Strangers Become Flowers, will have its premiere in February at ODC Commons Studio B. In November I watched a run-through at Shawl-Anderson that lasted about 45 minutes […]

Grace; Revisiting a Definition

An essay examining the historical evolution of grace as a concept and its application to integrated dance.

Dancing Through a Jewish Lens

How does being Jewish shape our lives andย our work as dance artists? What do we haveย to contribute from a Jewish perspective? Just as I was finding my voice as a […]

Crossroads: Part I: dancers

This article is the first in a three-part series on the transformative experiences of Bay Area dancers, choreographers and dance teachers. WHILE A FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE, I found myself at […]

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. […]