Building and Rebuilding: Ernesto Sopprani & Kathleen Hermesdorf Discuss the New Arts Building Consortium

Space is a crucial factor in any performing arts community and there will always be issues around the search for usable, affordable spaces artists need for performing, rehearsing and living. […]

Expect the Unexpected: Subverting the Ballet Paradigm with Amy Seiwert and SKETCH 3

“When I started making work, no one was paying any attention whatsoever,” Amy Seiwert recalls. After nineteen years spent dancing for Sacramento Ballet and Smuin Ballet, she launched her choreographic […]

A Diverse Career in the Corps de Ballet: With San Francisco Ballet’s Alexandra McCullagh Newman and Gaetano Amico III

At the age of three, Alexandra McCullagh Newman saw her first Nutcracker— immediately, she was in love. Fast forward a few years, and McCullagh Newman was well-immersed in the dance […]

A Year of Opportunity for the San Francisco Dance Film Festival

If you’ve ever wanted to saturate yourself in screendance – dance choreographed specifically for the camera—now is your moment. This year’s San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF) will offer what […]

SPEAK By Erin Mei-Ling Stuart

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Lately, I keep thinking of that Leonard Cohen lyric. Because lately, I’ve been thinking about— and trying to […]

Welcome, Oct 2013

STARTING A CREATIVE ENDEAVOR takes courage. Then it takes work. Then it takes finding funding for the project. Then, of course, it takes more work. Then the really fun part […]

A Conversation with Bill T. Jones

IN LATE AUGUST, I had the distinct honor of interviewing Bill T. Jones while he was enjoying a brief respite from his slate of touring, artistic direction and impresario-sized intellectual […]

Dana Lawton Embraces Big Moments

FOR EVERY CHOREOGRAPHER the prospect of presenting his or her first full evening of work represents a thrilling and terrifying creative milestone. This month choreographer Dana Lawton “takes the plunge” […]

DID YOU KNOW? Highlighting the Activities of Artists/Organizations in Our Region

FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mona Khan formed the Mona Khan Company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009. Khan has trained in Bharatnatyam for nine years and went on […]

Welcome, Nov 2013

I’m looking forward to you reading the articles in this month’s issue. While this is true every month—grin—these contributions hit a chord with me; the authors inform us on the […]