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Artist & Educator Li Chiao-Ping Comes Full Circle, Apr 2007
An interview with internationally renowned artist and Bay Area native Li Chiao-Ping about her new professorship at Mills College and her upcoming performance “Home Works.”
Fua Dia Congo; Dancing Malonga Casquelourd’s Legacy, Dec 2007
Not many small dance companies survive the death of their founders. Started in 1977 by the late master dancer and drummer Malonga Casquelourd, Fua Dia Congo has continued in their […]
Seventy-five and Wildly Alive: San Francisco Ballet Commissions Ten New Works
San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson could have chosen to make the company’s 75th anniversary an exercise in self-glorification and nostalgia. Instead, he’s taking a gamble on the future. […]
KUNST-STOFF Celebrates 10 years
You can pronounce KUNST-STOFF with a little Germanic ‘sh’ added to the stoff and a very oo-sounding kunst, and you’ll still only be half-way in the know. Part-two is its […]
The Experiment Called Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation defies any specific definition or historical analysis. The dancer most often credited for CI’s development is ambivalent about his role and some of CI’s early participants have divergent […]
Jérôme Bel and Myself: A Choreographer Interrogating Dance
For one night in March, French choreographer Jérôme Bel comes to San Francisco to present his work Pichet Klunchun and Myself. More a performance work about dance than it is […]
From Hawai’i to Taylor and Back Again: A Conversation with Rachel Berman
Rachel Berman, former member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, is an easy person to like. We met at an event at Mills College where she is currently on dance […]
SF Conservatory’s New SoMa Studios: An Expanded Vision for Ballet Education
Summer Lee Rhatigan has just opened a ballet school without mirrors. They teach Gaga. It’s like neo-Europe over there on 8th and Folsom, turning ballet dancers into improv artists, melting […]
Freedom and Community: From The Wallflower Order to the Dance Brigade
Thirty-five years of feminist dance advocating for radical social change, and it’s time for a huge celebration! With a free dance concert in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Novellus […]
Anna’s Postmodern Children
Sitting in Yerba Buena’s theater last March, I was mystified by the ecstatic reaction French choreographer Jérôme Bel received restaging his “encounter” with classical Thai dancer Pichet Klunchan. All around […]
