Reality in Black Swan or Just a Lot of B.S.?

NOTE: SPOILER ALERT It’s an understatement to say that everyone is talking about Black Swan. The reviews have been out and widespread since it opened in December. Natalie Portman has […]

ODC, Fabulous at 40

To celebrate ODC’s 40 years of dance-making and community building, we’ve asked founder and artistic director, Brenda Way, and co-artistic directors, KT Nelson and Kimi Okada, to share their thoughts […]

Musing on Merce: The Bay Area Remembers Cunningham

Merce Cunningham’s relationship with the Bay Area was deep and career-spanning, so on the eve of his company’s final performances at UC Berkeley, Claudia Bauer asked several local artists to […]

The Studios of Milk and Honey: Gaga Moving Up and Out of Tel Aviv

One of my teachers put it best, “It’s a language. Technique is something you do. A language is something you learn and becomes a part of your life.” I moved […]

One on One: For Christy Funsch One is Never a Lonely Number

Rarely do audiences experience a dance performance more than once, however Christy Funsch gives dance-goers a second chance with the ephemeral, time-based, and fleeting art form in her upcoming retrospective […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2013

It’s an exceptional time to be working as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, administrator, technician, or in one of the many businesses that support dance, because dance is flourishing in […]

AXIS’ Scope: What Lies Ahead

Three years ago I had the opportunity to dance with AXIS as a community dancer in David Dorfman’s Light Shelter. The experience was pivotal. Coming from a dance background steeped […]

Jack Carpenter: a Master of Illumination

The estimable dance and theater lighting designer Thomas Skelton once remarked, “There are many barriers between the dancer and good lighting, but each can be hurdled with enough imagination, common […]

Creating Space for Hip Hop: A Spotlight on Micaya & SoulForce

I remember first meeting Micaya backstage when I was volunteering for the San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in November 2010. Glamorous in […]

Keith Hennessy Questions the Economy to Create Turbulence

By Kate Mattingly A couple days before leaving the Bay Area at the end of June I saw Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence (a dance about the economy) at CounterPULSE. In many […]