In Practice: Sean Dorsey, Fresh Meat Productions, and Trans Joy

As he looks back on 20 years of making and producing performance by trans, gender-nonconforming (GNC), two-spirit, and queer artists in the Bay Area and across the country, Sean Dorsey, Artistic Director of Sean Dorsey Dance (SDD) and founder of Fresh Meat Productions (FMP), is positively glowing.

Kinetic Light: DESCENT: Online & In-Depth

Inspired by the work of Auguste Rodin and performed on a custom-designed architectural ramp installation with hills, curves, and peaks, DESCENT explores the pleasures of wheeled movement and reckless abandon. […]

Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World

Bridging a performing arts gap created by the pandemic, Yale Schwarzman Center (YSC) has partnered with the Yale Dance Lab and 16 renowned dance artists to launch a 16-episode series, […]

From One to Many: Six Solos Shared (online)

An online performance premiere and artist Q&A featuring six commissioned choreographers: Melecio Estrella, Molly Heller, Molly Rose-Williams, natalya shoaf, Liv Schaffer, Erin Yen. The artists present brand new solos made […]

In Practice: Reconstructing Reconstruction with Chris Evans

What does it mean to grieve in the context of perpetual marginalization and terrorization? What are the contours of grief in the afterlife of ancestral, epigenetic, and intergenerational trauma? And […]

In Practice: Out of Practice

One of my jobs is college admissions essay coach. The most popular platform for college admissions is called the Common Application. Over 900 colleges and universities use the Common App as their gateway for admission. The Common App requires the usual stuff:

Weaving a Future for Inclusive Dance: Integrating Disability Into the Dance World

This article originally appeared in Dance/USA’s eJournal, From the Green Room, on March 22, 2016, and is reprinted here with kind permission. Dance/USA, the national service organization for the professional […]

Out of Order: Disobedient Dance Criticism

โ€œThe review, the most common form of dance writing, is weak as much for how it attempts to describe the object of that performed event as for what it leaves […]

Inside, From a Distance

Margyโ€”one of Margaret Jenkinsโ€™ many monikersโ€”always considered her dancers collaborators, and I had the good fortune to work with her from 1979 to 1990. Through the years, she gave us […]

Kathy Mata Ballet: Bay Area Dance Week 2023

Kathy Mata Ballet company members and guests will perform dances ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, in a variety of solos, duets, character dance and more–plus live musical accompaniment on […]