One on One with Meg Stuart

When New Orleans-born, Berlin-based choreographer Meg Stuart walks into a crowded room her presence ricochets against the walls penetrating the bystanders. The stakes are at once raised and there is […]

Leave a Message, I’m on Vacation

To describe my relationship with dance as “love-hate” would be a gross understatement. In the years since I first spun barefoot across the rec-center multi-purpose room at Olinder Elementary, I’ve […]

Ms, Fs, and As, Oh My! Life After Graduate School, The Transition Awaiting

ON JUNE 13, 2010 I graduated from The Ohio State University with an M.F.A. in Dance. I moved to San Francisco on June 18. This transition has been an education […]

A Breath and a Hum, and a Move Like Mango: An Interview with Deaf Dancer & Choreographer Antoine Hunter

Transcribing my interview with Deaf dancer, choreographer and teacher Antoine Hunter, I am acutely aware of how much every conversation relies upon a unique choreography of gestures, expressions and empathy. […]

Dana Lawton Embraces Big Moments

FOR EVERY CHOREOGRAPHER the prospect of presenting his or her first full evening of work represents a thrilling and terrifying creative milestone. This month choreographer Dana Lawton “takes the plunge” […]

Musing on Merce: The Bay Area Remembers Cunningham

Merce Cunningham’s relationship with the Bay Area was deep and career-spanning, so on the eve of his company’s final performances at UC Berkeley, Claudia Bauer asked several local artists to […]

Eavesdropping on a Chat Between Rosanna Gamson and Niloufar Talebi about Layla Means Night

THIS FALL, I will be ringleading the ten performances of Layla Means Night premiering at ODC Theater (October 30-November 3, 2013). Layla is a re-imagining of Director/Choreographer/Auteur Rosanna Gamson’s earlier […]

A Conversation with Bill T. Jones

IN LATE AUGUST, I had the distinct honor of interviewing Bill T. Jones while he was enjoying a brief respite from his slate of touring, artistic direction and impresario-sized intellectual […]

Inspirations and Obsessions: A Conversation with Dancers’ Group’s New Program Director

Dancers’ Group has a long history of working with dance artists to oversee and develop the organization’s programs and services. Simply, over the years, the many dance artists we have […]

Welcome, Mar 2012

Taking care of our bodies is probably one of the most important parts of being a dancer and yet, this seemingly simple and incredibly important task of maintaining our body-based-instrument–that […]