Anna Halprinโ€™s Art Filled Life on View at YBCA

Anna Halprin parked her white Volvo at the receiving dock of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and unloaded twelve trash bags full of leaves. The task-oriented performance artist, considered […]

SPEAK: Take This Dance and Shove It

EDITORโ€™S NOTE: For Scott Wells and Dancersโ€™ upcoming season, they have invited two choreographers working in diverse dance forms and approaches to collaborate with Wells in the creation of a […]

A Journey into Chaos: Creating Healing in Homeless Shelters

My work with the homeless didnโ€™t start out as a brave act. It started as a necessary act. The adventure began when I moved myself and my dance company, Pythia, […]

Vogue: a Look at the Formโ€™s Realness

โ€œBRING ON THE ATTITUDE! Bring your own fierceness! Look… thereโ€™s paparazzi everywhere! Now work it.โ€ Jocquese Whitfield shouts to a classroom full of people during his Tuesday night class at […]

Tax Tips for Artists

Home in Office If you book your gigs from home and/or rehearse there, you may take the portion of your apartment that is used exclusively and year round for that […]

Dance, If You Think You Can

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not a journalist, but when given the opportunity to interview the judges of the popular television program, So You Think You Can Dance, I did not […]

Big Dreams, Small Screen: Tuning Into Dance Reality Shows

ITโ€™S BROUGHT US SCHEMING Survivors, sadistic restaurateurs and women intent on marrying millionaires theyโ€™ve never met. And reality TV is now danceโ€™s biggest venue, with shows like So You Think […]

Repertoire Rights: The Legalities of Remounting Work

IN THE FILM THE LAST STATION, the Countess Sofia tries to drown herself after chancing upon the will of her husband, Leo Tolstoy. He has not left his prodigious body […]

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 […]

Central Market Arts: New Fall Festival Picks Up in the Mid-Market Corridor

IT IS A LONG-STANDING argument that maintaining strong creative and artistic cultural presence is a pivotal part of a flourishing culture. This argument has been used to fight for arts […]