A Love Letter to San Francisco: A Dancer’s Understanding of Home

Photo by Queering Beauty. [ID: Jesse stands in front of a red sequin curtain while wearing a checkered rainbow button up shirt. Jesse’s hands are inside his pockets as he […]

Welcome

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?” I offered this as a provocation for the writers in this issue and I am awestruck by the beauty, grace, humility, […]

Kularts & Alleluia Panis: Setting the Stage for Filipinx Diaspora Narratives

In a conversation about how she classifies her artistic practice, she told me that she does not consider her work to be “Philippine” dance, as that would be disrespectful to regional practitioners who undergo rigorous study, practice, and discipline that she as a choreographer and dancer who has livedmost of her life in the US has not undergone…

We Write Ourselves as We Move

I was born in the early 1980s in the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, to a nurse and a lawyer.

Dancing Archivists: A Conversation

Hallie Chametzky and Sarah Nguyen are archivist dance-makers who met at the Mark Morris Dance Group Archives, where Sarah was working and Hallie was visiting, in the fall of 2019.

Summer 2021

Read the digital edition: Summer 2021 In Dance For all content, including incredible images, videos, and profiles of Bay Area dance artists and organizations read in the Flipping Book above. […]

In Conversation: David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes

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Welcome

I hope you’re well, and I hope you’re safe. For most of 2020 these daily words were written in emails, texts and in posts on social. They do bear repeating: […]

A Ladder To Anna

Photo by Shinichi Iova-Koga I climb an extension ladder placed in the patio below my mother’s balcony, while she sits in her wheelchair looking down at me. This is how […]

Diamano Coura Celebrates 45 Years of Dancing with a Message

Photo by Cindy Manly-Fields For 45 years Diamano Coura has used West African dance as a vehicle to further the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional West African music, theater, […]