Kathak and Flamenco Traditions Explored

Renowned Kathak Master Pandit Chitresh Das is not new to collaborations. His partnership with tap virtuoso, Jason Samuels Smith, has been touring continuously since 2005 to critical acclaim across the […]

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.

In Conversation with Vanessa Sanchez

Whoโ€™s getting funded and who has access to getting funded? And really looking at a lot of my mentors in the Bay Area and beyond who…have changed and shaped communities and done this work for decades and decades and decades, but because of resources and because of language barriers, they arenโ€™t necessarily able to apply and receive the funding they should be. With that, I just felt it really important in that I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones from the Bay Area โ€“ in our kind of world of dancers of color who are coming from dance forms from traditionally Black and brown communities โ€“ I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones getting this. There are so many more people who need and deserve this โ€“ this funding.

95 WORDS FOR ANNA HALPRIN

Editorโ€™s Note: As a way to further contribute to the 95 Rituals project that offers a variety of opportunities to pay tribute to the work of Anna Halprin, In Dance […]

Five Tips for Getting Your Money Shit Together: Or, Lessons From a Middle-Aged, Middle Class Dance Artist

1ย  JUST SAY NO As artists, we need to stop askingย people to work for free, and we need to stop working for free. And we all need to say “no” […]

For You, For All of Us

The recent production of For You at the Marin Headlands was intended to be a break from self-absorbed, opaque art. Conceived by interdisciplinary performance maker Erika Chong Shuch, the April […]

Book Review: Defining Radical Bodies

When someone says โ€œradical change,โ€ I wonder which definition they are using for โ€œradical.โ€ The word can refer to an approach that comes from outliers, one that challenges existing views, […]

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: Photographer Pak Han

little seismic dance company, photo by Pak Han My father is a photographer, and growing up, whenever I was minding my own business, doing my homework or vaccinating my stuffed […]

Rosemary Hannon & Miriam Wolodarski: This is It

“This is a time for dealing with reality as it is, not as you would have it be” (I Ching Online.net 2015). โ€œBut one thing is certain. If one is […]