Kathy Mata Ballet: Bay Area Dance Week 2023

Kathy Mata Ballet company members and guests will perform dances ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, in a variety of solos, duets, character dance and more–plus live musical accompaniment on […]

Per Diem Request

Per diems are tracked under the expense category “7600 Program Travel and Lodging.” View and download the Chart of Accounts (updated Jan 2023). Checks are issued after verifying the correct […]

How Much Should I Pay?

?? Dancers’ Group ยท 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 […]

Learning to Dance Or When Lessons on Transformation are Lessons on Belonging

Photo courtesy of Hannah Ayasse. [ID: Four teenage girls sit on top of a wooden fence facing the sunset over Oakland, CA. The sky is full of vibrant yellow, pink, […]

Quick and Clear, and Queer: An Interview with Keith Hennessy

Busy, busyโ€”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 […]

For You, For All of Us

The recent production of For You at the Marin Headlands was intended to be a break from self-absorbed, opaque art. Conceived by interdisciplinary performance maker Erika Chong Shuch, the April […]

Discounts

*We are noticing schedule and price shifts as our communities start to re-open, please allow grace as we update our listings. Share your online offerings (classes, panels, etc).ย Choose โ€œCommunityโ€ when […]

Just Out of Reach: The Art of the Company History, Mar 2008

Capturing dance, if not purely impossible, is at least like hunting butterflies: a fragile art, with many beautiful frustrations. Once you pin it down, its motion has been stilled, and […]

In Conversation with Vanessa Sanchez

Whoโ€™s getting funded and who has access to getting funded? And really looking at a lot of my mentors in the Bay Area and beyond who…have changed and shaped communities and done this work for decades and decades and decades, but because of resources and because of language barriers, they arenโ€™t necessarily able to apply and receive the funding they should be. With that, I just felt it really important in that I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones from the Bay Area โ€“ in our kind of world of dancers of color who are coming from dance forms from traditionally Black and brown communities โ€“ I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones getting this. There are so many more people who need and deserve this โ€“ this funding.

A Turning Point

A bounty of generous resources from our dance community and the San Francisco Bay Area is how I found my way through a return of breast cancer and the death […]