Searching for the Right Mix; WestWave Dance Festival 2007

A staple of the Bay Area’s summer dance scene for 16 years, the WestWave Dance Festival (WWDF) is preparing for its 2007 season at Project Artaud Theater. Once again, the […]

Tangoing Through

AS I RE-PLAY 2010 IN MY MIND, one night pops as among the most meaningful and apt to influence me in 2011. As I grieved the imminent death of a […]

Consider the Source: Five Common Knee Injuries

Dancers often perform hundreds of jumps in a single dance class, so it’s no surprise that knee pain is a common problem. Many dancers assume pain and even injury are […]

From Dress-up to Drag

Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, exudes the demeanor of both a fabulous diva and a humble girl-next-door–at once imagining performance as spectacle and sparkle beyond the norm, while methodically crafting personal, […]

Opening the Boxes

For some reason I have always been drawn to the rough spaces in theaters. There is a mood within these spaces that is rich with history, objects, technologies and stories […]

Making Love With The Land

MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND PERFORMANCE is a series of online performances inspired by Joshua Whitehead’s forthcoming book Making Love With the Land in which LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists explore […]

Curating a Collision

“It is a delimitation of spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determine the place and the stakes of politics as a […]

Welcome

“Life is fragile, handle with care.” So declared the tagline of a Dow Chemical safety campaign when I was growing up. Dad worked there as a safety engineer.  

TV-MA: Avante-garde pop composer available for hire

I’m TV-MA and I’m a queer, transmasculine, latine, composer, producer, and musician. I specialize in making avante-garde pop that can sometimes be ethereal, experimental, and dark. I am looking for […]

Classical & Contemporary Persian Dance

Persia, bordering Central Asia and the Middle East, is the home of Classical Persian Dance. This dance style is a fluid yet rhythmic dance form, which emphasizes expression through the […]