On Gender and Performance: Six Statements by Six Artists

Comments by Akram Khan in January about women in the dance world(1) sparked a flurry of responses, both online and in publications. Dancers’ Group has decided to examine this topic more carefully […]

In Practice: NAKA Dance Theater in the time of COVID-19

Photos by Scott Tsuchitani On our way out of Margaret Jenkins’ CHIME event on December 8, 2019, José Navarrete invited me to have a conversation about NAKA’s social justice work, […]

If They Don’t Give You a Seat at the Table, Make Your Own Table

(Photo by Steve Disenhof. ID: LINES Ballet Training Program students perform in Chuck Wilt’s “Mural” in a black box theater. The dancers stand leaning back on a bent leg with […]

Weaving a Future for Inclusive Dance: Integrating Disability Into the Dance World

This article originally appeared in Dance/USA’s eJournal, From the Green Room, on March 22, 2016, and is reprinted here with kind permission. Dance/USA, the national service organization for the professional […]

Dance Film Comes of Age

A look at the marriage of dance and film. Stephanie Linakis explores this artistic shift, who it interests, and which events in the upcoming year will highlight the use of this medium.

Arts Leadership and a Healthy Arts Community

I think it was sometime back in the ’90s when the arts field first started talking about a crisis of future leadership. We looked around and saw a LOT of […]

Stealing Stories: Leyya Tawil

You poor little creature…what is yours? Your house…your job…your kitchen chairs and the number plate on the door…ah! But these don’t belong to you. By what right did they come […]

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 […]

Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art […]

SPEAK: A Slim Corner of the World

Being asked to reflect on 20 years of dance making is daunting. So I have decided to write in the second person. Adrienne Rich, one of my favorite poets and […]