Fresh Meat Productions: Stay Fresh at Home Video Series

Announcing Fresh Meat Productions’ new #stayFRESHatHOME video series … made for you, with love, as we all shelter in place. This FREE online series offers short videos featuring guided movement, […]

How Much Should I Pay?

?? Dancers’ Group · What Should I Pay? by Katie Taylor If you prefer to read this piece, continue below.   What does it mean to pay for the things […]

Out of Touch

“Secretly I want to be ‘Amma’ a.k.a. ‘the hugging saint,’ the Indian spiritual leader who goes around the world giving hugs to millions of people. I want to midwife life after COVID-19, to bring people back into their bodies.” –April 20, 2020

New book: PEACE About Life: Dancing with Parkinson’s

As part of her artistic process, Claudine Naganuma conducted interviews of people with PD and brought those audio interviews into the dance studio. Her intergenerational company of dNaga dancers listened […]

Resource Equity: Connecting culturally specific dance communities with grants funding

Introduction   There’s a large, diverse, and vibrant multicultural dance community in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a long-time capacity building specialist and resource equity advocate, I’ve worked extensively […]

The Complexities and Contradictions of Awards Ceremonies

Mikhail Baryshnikov has a slew of honors to include in his biography, and for years listed prominently the “Bessie,” or New York Dance and Performance Award, which he was given […]

SPEAK: future friend/ships

Jassem Hindi “Irony is about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humor and serious play. It is also […]

A Labyrinth of Cultural Histories: Exploring the Legacies of the 2015 Panama–Pacific International Exposition

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama- Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), which was held in San Francisco on 625 acres of landfill that would later become the Marina District. […]

The Diversity of Authorship: In Conversation with Hope Mohr

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR? How many times have you been asked this classic ‘get to know you’ question? Perhaps it was on a first date, at a new job, […]

Sustain Arts for the Bay Area: A New Website

A project of the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University, in partnership with the Foundation Center and Fractured Atlas, Sustain Arts equips communities with relevant data that focuses […]