Murphy Irish Dancers: A Family Tradition

The Bay Area-based Irish dance company, Murphy Irish Dancers, is family-run and family-oriented. Founded in 1963 by Mary Jo Murphy-Feeney, today she and her daughter Patricia Feeney-Conefrey are co-artistic directors, […]

Mash Up: Capacity Building in a Time of Continual Flux

There are least two levels of capacity building: practical usable tools, like technology and web-based platforms, and foundational skills, like adaptability, transparency, agility, and the ability to make clear decisions. […]

Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

Phone Numbers, Floors, Windows and Love I often gauge the depth of my relationship with someone based on if I know their phone number by heart. There are very few […]

Welcome, Apr 2012

What do you value about dance? This question is often asked in our office–with a host of amazing responses–and given who you ask, this simple question will absolutely elicit a […]

Moving Values: 2012 Dancers Choice Award Recipients: Ernesto Sopprani

Della Davidson and Ernesto Sopprani are the recipients of the 2012 Bay Area Dance Week Dancers Choice Award. This tradition, in its 5th year, celebrates individuals and organizations that are […]

Change and Exchange: University of San Francisco

Try to pronounce the letters P-A-S-J as a word with one syllable–PASJ–and you speak the lingo of young artists at the University of San Francisco. Rather, the shorthand version for […]

Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

Space to Make Mistakes 1994–I once locked a homeless man into the Dancers’ Group/Footwork 22nd Street space overnight. Well, it wasn’t just me. It was all three of us POTRZEBIE […]

CHIME 2013: Time to Get a Witness

To work with a mentor, to be in the presence of “a wise and trusted counselor,” sounds like an advantage reserved only for royalty. As an artist, to have the […]

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 […]

Edinburgh or Bust: Getting to the Fringe Festival

There are Fringe Festivals in almost every major city in the US (I’ve counted 16) and in many countries across the world. These theatrical extravaganzas celebrate unbridled creativity, uninhibited performance, […]