Cracked Open: Reflection on Moving the Body-Brain, Moving the Brain-Body – a danced lecture

Prompted by Dominic’s creative matchmaking, Paul and I had a conversation via Zoom that allowed us to speak about our dance-making as a way of engaging with and transforming difficult legacies that are invariably written on and encoded in our bodies.

Non Stop Bhangra Presents: “Crash An Indian Wedding Party”

Have you ever wanted to crash an Indian Wedding Party?! Here’s your chance! After 2+ years, Bay Area award winning production Non Stop Bhangra brings its favorite theme back to […]

Leaning into the Unexpected: The vulnerability and willingness of anthropology and performance

When I tell people I study performance as an anthropology major at college, many consider the two an odd mix.

25th Anniversary San Francisco Trans Film Festival

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) celebrates the 25th anniversary year of its annual festival dedicated to films by transgender and gender-nonconforming filmmakers, highlighting innovative, experimental, and outside-the-box films.  […]

25th Anniversary San Francisco Trans Film Festival

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) celebrates the 25th anniversary year of its annual festival dedicated to films by transgender and gender-nonconforming filmmakers, highlighting innovative, experimental, and outside-the-box films.  […]

The Christmas Ballet

Smuin kicks off the holiday season with the first-ever virtual edition of its ever-popular The Christmas Ballet program. Featuring the best of both worlds—breathtaking classical ballet as well as festive contemporary numbers—this season’s […]

Advocacy: Anywhere and Anytime

Advocacy has long been one of those big, broad words whose definition I knew in theory, but I’d never experienced it firsthand to gain true insight into its meaning—and outcomes. In imagining what my first […]

Life During Life and The Glade

Live Online Screening of Paufve Dance films “Life During Life” and “The Glade” followed by artist Q&A with Randee Paufve, Julia Sweeney (videographer) and Sima Belmar (ODC writer-in-residence) Paufve Dance […]

Welcome, June 2012

At the end of June the streets of San Francisco, and many dance venues, will be bustling as the local dance community plays host to our colleagues from across the […]

June 2014

Welcome, June 2014 by Wayne Hazzard From Kathakali to Kathak: Eight Indian Classical Genres at the 2014 SF Ethnic Dance Festival by David Roche Building Digital Parallelity for the Performing Arts: […]