A Banana Peel is Good for Headaches: Observations from the Traditional Arts Field

Between dinner and dessert one evening, Doba G., a medical doctor in her late seventies who emigrated from the Ukraine to San Francisco in 1993, gave me a tip: Lily: […]

Gray Zones: Ko Muroboshiโ€™s Hand in the Development of inkBoatโ€™s Crazy Cloud

Once again Iโ€™m roaming East Mountain hungry. When you are starving, a bowl of rice is worth a thousand pieces of gold. An ancient worthy swapped his wisdom for a […]

Sustain Arts for the Bay Area: A New Website

A project of the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University, in partnership with the Foundation Center and Fractured Atlas, Sustain Arts equips communities with relevant data that focuses […]

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]

Whatโ€™s on Your Nightstand?

In Dance was curious about what books people are reading that are inspiring, engaging or diverting. To expand your summer booklist, we posed the following three questions to the dance […]

The Complexities and Contradictions of Awards Ceremonies

Mikhail Baryshnikov has a slew of honors to include in his biography, and for years listed prominently the โ€œBessie,โ€ or New York Dance and Performance Award, which he was given […]

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.

San Francisco Conservatory Takes on Forsythe

After seeing Alex Ketleyโ€™s Careless at last summerโ€™s WestWave Dance Festival, audience members might have wondered who were the castโ€™s athletic and daring creatures that made up the San Francisco […]

Monkey Business at Monkey Town: When Tour Dates Go Awry

Going on tour is like a dream come true, or so I thought when Iโ€™ve imagined the splendor of the road countless times. When it actually happens it is another […]

Dancing in the Land of Edelweiss: My Adventures in Salzburg

Three months ago I was living the good life. I resided in an apartment in beautiful Oakland, California seven blocks from Lake Merritt with two cats, a boyfriend and another […]