If They Donโ€™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 Wiltโ€™s โ€œMuralโ€ in a black box theater. The dancers stand leaning back on a bent leg with […]

Collaborative Optimism: a score for a -ship

  I found love in the palm of my hand. My fingers reach into a primordial, interconnected web of memory that manifests tangibly in the landscapes I have traversed. When […]

The First Steps: Luna Dance Institute

Dance teacher, Bonner Odell is on maternity leave. With the birth of her daughter, the count is five teacher-mothers (out of seven) at Luna. As our small organization juggles busy […]

Got Space? Launching A New Online Directory of Performing Arts Spaces

HAVE SPACE? NEED SPACE? Starting November 15, the Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces (BAPAS) online resource holds the keys to hundreds of venues throughout the Bay Area. The BAPAS website […]

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Resource Equity: Connecting culturally specific dance communities with grants funding

Introduction ย  Thereโ€™s a large, diverse, and vibrant multicultural dance community in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a long-time capacity building specialist and resource equity advocate, Iโ€™ve worked extensively […]

In Conversation with Vanessa Sanchez

Whoโ€™s getting funded and who has access to getting funded? And really looking at a lot of my mentors in the Bay Area and beyond who…have changed and shaped communities and done this work for decades and decades and decades, but because of resources and because of language barriers, they arenโ€™t necessarily able to apply and receive the funding they should be. With that, I just felt it really important in that I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones from the Bay Area โ€“ in our kind of world of dancers of color who are coming from dance forms from traditionally Black and brown communities โ€“ I donโ€™t want to be one of the only ones getting this. There are so many more people who need and deserve this โ€“ this funding.

Dance Delights This Fall: Find Your Favorites and Discover Whatโ€™s New

The fall has always been one of my favorite times to go see dance. Before the rain starts, those warm fall days in the Bay Area are the best for […]

Critical Dialogues: Heather Desaulniers and Katherine Hawthorne

What if, rather than writing a review, a critic sat down with a choreographer to have a two-way conversation about the work? thatโ€™s the experiment behind critical dialogues. For this […]

Mash Up: Capacity Building in a Time of Continual Flux

There are least two levels of capacity building: practical usable tools, like technology and web-based platforms, and foundational skills, like adaptability, transparency, agility, and the ability to make clear decisions. […]