Tax Tips For Dancers

Home in Office. If you book your gigs from home and/or rehearse there, you may take the portion of your apartment that is used exclusively and year round for that […]

From the Inside: An Interview with Keith Hennessy on “Delinquent”

At the time this interview was written, Keith Hennessy and a cast of young performers aged 16-24, myself included, had begun work on a new project called Delinquent based loosely […]

To Be A Traveler in Your Own City, Oct 2008

Where would you take out of town visitors if they arrived today? What’s “interesting” about San Francisco, something tourists travel the world to see? How would you compose an insider’s […]

Demystifying the Art of Presenting

As a presenter for nearly 30 years now, the question I get asked by artists, more than any other, is, “How do I get my work presented?” Sometimes it’s directed […]

What is Ethnic Dance?: Questions and Reflections from a “Post Multiculturalism” Conversation

Let’s face it, like it or not, traditional and ethnic dance forms around the globe are changing. I doubt there’s any dance style that’s performed exactly as it was 50 […]

Training With Intention

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 […]

A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own, Mar 2007

An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination.

To the Rhythm of Another World; A Glimpse of India through the eyes of Margaret Jenkins, May 2007

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company traveled to Kolkata, India in January 2007 to perform A Slipping Glimpse, an evening length work created in collaboration with the Tanusree Shankar Dance Company, which […]

Dance In San Francisco; Observations and Attitudes

The following article was published in Movement Research Journal #31, Summer 2007, New York City. San Francisco, the left coast, the endpoint of western expansion and escape. Being a port […]

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

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 […]