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

One of my teachers put it best, โ€œItโ€™s a language. Technique is something you do. A language is something you learn and becomes a part of your life.โ€ I moved […]

Do You YouTube?

Every week, I get a question from someone in the dance community about online videos. As a web consultant with a variety of dance experience, I know a thing or […]

In Practice: Body Nerds: Judith Butler and Monique Jenkinson

On November 3, 2017, philosopher Judith Butler took to the CounterPulse stage and, be still my beating heart, danced. Joined in mutual illustriousness by Monique Jenkinson in a tempered version […]

2010 Highlight

AS A READER, discovering an especially evocative and compelling turn of phrase can be transformative. I sit down with certain books and authors repeatedly because I am offered the promise […]

Dear Anna

Photo by Shinichi Iova-Koga Anna, Iโ€™ve been thinking about you. Our world breathes so strangely now. My dance becomes more and more quiet. As I write this, I โ€œshelter at […]

In The Know: Gaining Confidence with Arts Advocacy

As I sat in the back of an almost-full Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater for the SF Mayoral Arts Forum this past August, I felt a palpable […]

Maternal Movement

  Editorโ€™s Note: Danielle Vigil is a Dancersโ€™ Group administrative assistant, personal trainer, choreographer, dance teacher and new mother. In writing about this topic Danielle reflects, “I want to acknowledge […]

BABY BABY, COME ON HOME

Photo courtesy of Zoe Huey. [ID: A self portrait of a light-skinned, mixed-race Asian person with short hair in a blue long-sleeve button up shirt. The person is looking at […]

Major celebrations and successes meet the usual challenges of presenting new work

This past year was a time of big birthdays, initiatives, celebrations, and rebuilding in Bay Area dance. Outshining all in historical import, ambition, publicity, and yes, hypeโ€”some perpetuated by this […]

The Art of the Possible: Increase funding for the arts in 2008

It has been four years since the California Arts Councilโ€™s (CAC) budget was drastically cut by 94% leaving our state at the bottom of the nation in per capita spending […]