Training With Intention

Posted on December 1, 2007 by Jill Randall

My key years of modern dance training in the 90s as an undergraduate came at the time of the highly athletic dancer. Lois Greenfield’s images of Pilobolus dancers with 6-pack […]

Dance Discourse Project #9

Dance and Somatics in the Bay Area- What’s the Connection? DDP#9 looked at ways somatic practices have historically been intertwined with dance in the Bay Area, and investigated some of […]

Dance Discourse Project #10

Are we trapped in a static presenting model? Much of contemporary dance in the Bay Area continues to be presented Thursday through Saturday at 8pm in traditional venues, following in […]

A Closer Look at the “Unconventional Dancer”

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Maya Gurantz

Developed in collaboration with homeless youth, choreographer Isak Immanuel’s newest piece, Illegal Echo, is a process-oriented work “concerning the themes of peripheral identity, transience and memory.” For Immanuel, the themes […]

Letter to Postmodern Dance; How Freedom of Movement is Killing my Creativity

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Terre Unite Parker

Attention: Postmodern Dance CC: Modern Dance August 13, 2007 Dear PMD, After all our work together I regret that I must register a complaint with you, my dear friend. I […]

Dance Educators Descend on Alabama

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Patricia Reedy

A re-cap of this year’s annual National Dance Education Association Conference in Alabama.

Choreographing Change; An Interview with USF

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Marielle Amrhein

Amie Dowling is currently a faculty member in the Performing Arts Department at the University of San Francisco. I first met her the senior year of my undergraduate education at […]

You Can Go Home Again

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Rita Felciano

A preview of an upcoming performance by Karole Armitage Gone! Dance Company presented by San Francisco Performances at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.