Wandering into New Terrain: Amy Seiwert’s Imagery – SKETCH 7

Haunting D minor chords echo and repeat, evoking a sustained, steady, poignant walk. A descending scalic motif emerges, signaling the lowering of the sun and the onset of nightfall. Soon, […]

In Practice: DWP, Dancing While Pregnant

In 2012, I saw Patricia West dance pregnant in Joe Goode’s When We Fall Apart. I was pregnant myself at the time and thought, Damn! I can barely get out of […]

Five Tips for Getting Your Money Shit Together: Or, Lessons From a Middle-Aged, Middle Class Dance Artist

1  JUST SAY NO As artists, we need to stop asking people to work for free, and we need to stop working for free. And we all need to say “no” […]

In Practice: Mix’d Ingrdnts Performing Resistance

Early in the introduction to What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research, Ben Spatz writes, “Supposedly people join theatre and dance companies to perform in front […]

Clog On: Ian Enriquez Continues the Barbary Coast Cloggers Legacy with the Mussel Rock Cloggers

Spend time exploring the Bay Area’s myriad traditional and folk dance communities and you will soon discover that the concept of “traditional dance” is an amorphous concept that changes based on […]

In Practice: Tonya Marie Amos

In a 1993 interview, Toni Morrison said, “The people who practice racism are bereft. […] It feels crazy. It is crazy. […] If you can only be tall because somebody’s […]

Did you know? Mary Sano

ON OCTOBER 2ND Dancers’ Group and World Arts West will present Mary Sano and Her Duncan Dancers as part of the Rotunda Dance Series at San Francisco City Hall. Sano […]

Welcome

When weighed down by what’s going on in the world, as well as right here in San Francisco, I feel myself shrinking into my shell, shackled by fear and yet in […]

The New Milkbar: A Blueprint for Embodiment

The Milkbar, a home for experimental dance, music, theater, film, site-specific, installation, and cross- and inter-disciplinary works of all kinds, has moved. We’re thrilled about our new space and want to […]

Welcome

It can be hard to be an optimist in a country and world with deep injustices. “The arc of the moral universe,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “is long, but […]