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Speak: Supporting Spirit through Bomba and Philanthropy
I was making my way home from the Financial District to the Mission on BART after work; feet pinched by the not-so-comfortable shoes I wore that day as part of […]
Does One Size Fit All Funders?
WHEN IT COMES TIME for you to begin fundraising for a new artistic project, wouldn’t it be great if you could print a bunch of copies of your well-crafted project […]
Notes From a Suitcase
MAY 2009 – In A Dance Studio In America During a recent rehearsal I rediscovered a recording of my young Ethiopian students singing. It transported me back to the village […]
Queer Collisions: Personal Interrogations of Life and Performance
I think I’m queer, but I hesitate to think so. Here are some known facts about my queerness: How I might be queer 1. I’ve been curated into a queer […]
Uncovered: The Diary Project: Sean Dorsey’s Fifth Home Season
Most people already know that Sean Dorsey is a trailblazing pioneer in the modern dance world. He is the first openly transgendered choreographer to make work about his own life […]
Welcome, Jan/Feb 2010
Rituals marking the New Year can often help focus our attention on the potential. These personal ceremonies are reminders of our present state, while allowing each of us to believe […]
Brown and Rauschenberg: Forays into Collaboration
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art September 24, 2009 Jeff James, Howard Gilman Director of the Hopkins Center for the Arts: Welcome to a conversation between […]
Quick and Clear, and Queer: An Interview with Keith Hennessy
Busy, busy—such is the life of an artist currently performing his own work both locally and in New York, simultaneously working on a PhD in Performance Studies, as well as […]
A Mini History of Dance Education
Dance has been a part of U.S. public education since the early 1900s, when the concepts of gymnasium and open-air exercise were becoming popular in Europe. National dances were developed, […]
Glimpses of Nijinsky…100 Years Later
Much celebrated this year is the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Paris-based company that changed the face of dance in the twentieth century, as well as having […]