Stretching the Limits: Managing Hypermobile Joints

Proper care of a hypermobile body can mean the difference between a fulfilling career and sidelined dreams. We know it when we see it: the hyperextended line of an arabesque, […]

Solo Form: Nora Chipaumire

I WAIT IN GREAT ANTICIPATION for Nora Chipaumire’s homecoming… her San Francisco Bay Area premiere of Miriam at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum February 13-15, 2014. To […]

Dance Discourse Project #19

Re-imagining Our Cultural Commons: Making Spaces for Dance Hosted at [freespace] in San Francisco, CounterPulse and Dancers’ Group invited the public into a discussion of the tactics, modes and imagination […]

Dance Discourse Project #20

ALL THE PRACTICE: What we’re really making… Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 7:30pm Z Space, 450 Florida St, SF Free In DDP #20, hosted by Z Space, guest moderators Jesse Hewit and […]

30 YEARS: The Dance Community’s Reflections on Rita Felciano

EDITOR’S NOTE: What better way to honor a writer—especially one like dance critic Rita Felciano— than to feed her words. Along with Ann Murphy’s article on page 3, the following […]

January/February 2015

Welcome by Wayne Hazzard A Labyrinth of Cultural Histories: Exploring the Legacies of the 2015 Panama–Pacific International Exposition by Rob Taylor Book Review: Like A Bomb Going Off by Rita […]

Welcome

OVER A RECENT WEEKEND, I WAS VISITING with my husband’s family at a time when all of the young nieces and nephews were there, gathered together from the corners of […]

December 2015

Welcome by Michelle Lynch Reynolds Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose Celebrates 35 Years by Usha Srinivasan In the Sandbox: Sara Shelton Mann and a Career’s Worth of Collaborators Join […]

SPEAK: BLACK CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL: In the Spirit of Sankofa

THE MOTTO for the Black Choreographers Festival (BCF)—Keeping the Vision For-ward—is at the core of all that we plan, curate, and present. The summer of 2003 began two years of […]

Finding Tap in the Bay Area

THE NOVEMBER 2015 In Dance article, Finding Flamenco by Heather DeSaulniers, inspired me to focus my own research on a unique dance form, therefore I have pulled together a variety […]