FACT/SF’s New Commissioning Program JuMP: Balancing Breadth and Depth

OFTEN WHEN THERE ISN’T an ideal opportunity at hand, you have to create one for yourself. In that vein, FACT/SF founder and Artistic Director Charles Slender has recently created a […]

Book Review: Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton

In Come home Charley Patton (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), choreographer, writer and visual artist Ralph Lemon journeys through personal and Civil Rights history like a migrant worker. Gleaning ancestral fruits—both […]

Understanding Your Health Insurance Options

From the first hints of reforms to the nation’s health care system several years ago to the opening of the “statewide exchanges” this past October, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) […]

Emotional Histories Become Movement: Speaking with Noemi Araxi of Arax Dance

“DO YOU HAVE A LOVE FOR DANCE?” This was the first question asked in my interview with Noemi Araxi of Arax Dance, and it was one my subject asked of […]

Upaj (Improvisation) of Life Captured on Film

Having personally witnessed the development of Pandit Chitresh Das and Jason Samuels Smith’s relationship on and off the stage, I was thrilled when the announcement of a documentary to capture […]

Stepping to the Beat of a Different Fiddle with the Barbary Coast Cloggers

As the first high notes of fiddle fill the air, a group of twelve men in jeans and flannel shirts begin to clap rhythmically. A banjo joins the fiddle, and […]

Vogue: a Look at the Form’s Realness

“BRING ON THE ATTITUDE! Bring your own fierceness! Look… there’s paparazzi everywhere! Now work it.” Jocquese Whitfield shouts to a classroom full of people during his Tuesday night class at […]

Parangal Passes It On

“We want to learn and grow artistically with a group of people who are passionate about Philippine dance. We dance for one another and the community, while giving tribute to […]

Travel to move: An Interview with Zenón Barrón

Viajar libera la mente. Traveling frees the mind. For Zenón Barrón, Founder and Artistic Director of Ensambles Ballet Folkórico de San Francisco, travel is a linchpin to creativity. “When I […]

Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit: An Interview

While they’ve never collaborated to make a work together, Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit shared the stage as resident artists at CounterPULSE, currently work with Keith Hennessey, hold hands when […]