Bay Area Dance Week

April 26 – May 5, 2024 all dance, all free, all week   Explore 150+ free events 10 days of free classes, performances, and more, all over the Bay Area. […]

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 […]

The Festival before the Festival

A preview of the 2007 Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions, a multi-day audition open to the public.

Grace; Revisiting a Definition

An essay examining the historical evolution of grace as a concept and its application to integrated dance.

KUNST-STOFF Celebrates 10 years

You can pronounce KUNST-STOFF with a little Germanic ‘sh’ added to the stoff and a very oo-sounding kunst, and you’ll still only be half-way in the know. Part-two is its […]

SFPALM: New Name, Big Plans

Whether it’s the Opera, the incomparable San Francisco Ballet, ODC Dance, or Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, performances are fleeting and committed to the memories of those who witnessed them. This […]

The Emperor’s Old Clothes?: Reflections on Thirty Years of the Ethnic Dance Festival

Upfront: here is my disclaimer and confession. I owe much to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF), which marks 30 years of presenting this June. I have lived on […]

Please Respond: RSVP Cycles in the Work of Anna and Lawrence Halprin

Ann and Lawrence Halprin have been married for over 68 years, and this pair of artists have spent just as long working together. An event this month at the Stern […]

The Shifting Cornerstone: WestWave Splashes into the Streets, July/ Aug 2008

Joanna Haigood, the Artistic Director of San Francisco based Zaccho Dance Theater, is a well-known creator of site specific apparatus based dance. She has been creating work world-wide on various […]

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 […]