Embracing the Past and Guiding Tomorrow

Halau o Keikiali’i performs Friday, March 4, at 12 noon in San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda as part of the free Rotunda Dance Series, presented by Dancers’ Group and World […]

For the Love of Dance; Dance Writers on Criticism, Nov 2007

Dancersโ€™ Group asks seven Bay Area dance critics questions about their jobs and role of dance criticism.

The Grant You Wish You Could Write

Photo by Marley Trigg Stewart. [ID: Miguel Gutierrez looks softly into the camera while biting a rosary, bathed in orange light. He is a light skinned, Latinx cis-man with short […]

Corporate Giving 101

Ah, stalking the elusive corporate donor! Back in the good olโ€™ fundraising days (the mid-80โ€™s, in case youโ€™re wondering), oil companies, banks, department stores, you-name-it, every corporation in America seemed […]

Moving Histories

The devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the destructive fury of Hurricane Gustav in 2008 and most recently, the massive earthquake in Haiti have shocked the world […]

Performance Preview: Whatโ€™s On For This Season

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, start your espresso machinesโ€”youโ€™ll need extra zip to keep up with the Bay Areaโ€™s spring dance schedule, which includes new pieces from renowned local choreographers, avant-garde work […]

Being Blurred: Ralph Lemon Interviewed

Ariel Osterweis Scott (AS): The last time I saw you was at a Miguel Gutierrez performance. I remember you said something provocative regarding an explicit performance art piece I hadnโ€™t […]

Kinesthetic Aesthetic: On Explaining Dance to Your Friends & the Outside World

I joke with dancer friends about it all the time. Inevitably we face the pervasive question. You know what it is, it haunts you at parties, lurks behind the wine […]

SPEAK: Dance Artists on Dance

Iโ€™ve been thinking a lot about how dance occupies this space between the arts and sports and wondering how we as a community could exploit that more. Iโ€™m in the […]

Glimpses of Nijinskyโ€ฆ100 Years Later

Much celebrated this year is the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilevโ€™s Ballets Russes, the Paris-based company that changed the face of dance in the twentieth century, as well as having […]