CA$H Dance

Guidelines (for reference only) Download guidelines as a PDF The CA$H Dance grant may be used for a project, to support your artistic process generally, or to support you as […]

Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces

Updated Sep 21, 2020 Fractured Atlas, the organization that hosts the Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces website — and created the technology — informed their communities that they are ending […]

Corporate Giving 101

Ah, stalking the elusive corporate donor! Back in the good ol’ fundraising days (the mid-80’s, in case you’re wondering), oil companies, banks, department stores, you-name-it, every corporation in America seemed […]

Purple Moon Dance Project Turns Spotlight on Lesbian and Women of Color Artists

I came to know the work of the Purple Moon Dance Project within the first few weeks of moving to San Francisco in 2000. Everything was different then: I had […]

Quiet Storm; Lily Cai Pays Tribute to Women

On the screen of Lily Cai’s laptop, three small images of the same dancer move in not quite perfect unison. Cradling a large glass ball between her head and shoulder […]

The Noodle Factory is Dead, Long Live the Noodle Factory

Right now all you can see is beams and plywood walls, but by early 2008 the Oakland Noodle Factory should be a pipe dream made real. Imagine this: eleven live-work […]

Anna Halprin’s Art Filled Life on View at YBCA

Anna Halprin parked her white Volvo at the receiving dock of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and unloaded twelve trash bags full of leaves. The task-oriented performance artist, considered […]

Dance IS Intergenerational

The Dance IS Festival not only asks, what is dance?, but enacts, probes, and challenges the question. While considering how dance functions in the East Bay, the festival also explores […]

When Dance Hits Music: Two choreographers and a string quartet creatively collide in “StringWreck”

“Charlie and I recognize that we might be inviting catastrophe in terms of trying new things with new people in new situations where there’s just very little known ground,” says […]

ODC’s Kaleidoscope of Outreach

When I sat down to talk about outreach with ODC artistic director KT Nelson, school director Kimi Okada, and outreach coordinator Annie Jupiter-Jones on a sunny morning at ODC’s Shotwell […]