Finding Creative Action in the Teaching World

Teaching artists can no longer afford to wait for administrator buy-in or to be offered a seat at the table. In the January/February 2014 issue of In Dance, I described the […]

Dances for Doing Live Performance + Screening

In response to Jen Bervin’s exhibition Doing and Undoing, Catharine Clark Gallery, BOXBLUR, and San Francisco Dance Film Festival present a new commissioned dance work by New York-based choreographer Catherine Galasso. Galasso […]

Dances for Doing Live Performance + Screening

In response to Jen Bervin’s exhibition Doing and Undoing, Catharine Clark Gallery, BOXBLUR, and San Francisco Dance Film Festival present a new commissioned dance work by New York-based choreographer Catherine Galasso. Galasso […]

Speak: Money Changes Everything: Dance and Demos in Contemporary Capitalism

SARAH ANNE AUSTIN’S by now notorious March article in Dance/ USA’s e-Journal compared dance in higher education to a pyramid scheme. The harsh economic reality faced by contemporary dancers is […]

The Salimpour School at 70: Belly Dance for the 21st Century

Surrounded by myths, misconceptions, and sometimes maligned, belly dance as we think of it today—with two-piece costumes baring the midriff, presented in restaurants and renaissance faires—is actually quite young. While […]

Dancing Diplomacy; One Woman’s Journey to the Heart of Kathak

The traditional Kathak solo is alive and well. In India? Maybe not. But in California, yes! In 1992, I wandered into Pandit Chitresh Das’ Kathak class at SFSU when I […]

What do you Think About Dance Criticism? A Community Responds

We recently sent out a call out to nearly 30 Bay Area dance artists representing a broad cross-section of the community asking them to contribute perspectives on dance criticism. Twelve […]

In The Know: Gaining Confidence with Arts Advocacy

As I sat in the back of an almost-full Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater for the SF Mayoral Arts Forum this past August, I felt a palpable […]

The Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble (KKDE): Momentum In-Love

KKDE Presents an episodic dance-theater evening with KKDE Members & Guest Artists, virtually. The choreographic works explore scenes of love, romance, and passion for the self through direct and indirect […]

Collective Matters on Dance and Other Body Modifications

Dancing Around Race (DAR) explores the socio-cultural dimensions of race within the interconnected fields of choreography, dance presentation, dance training, funding, curatorial practices, and dance criticism in U.S. contemporary and […]