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Edited by Zackary Forcum No matter where I go I can’t help being informed and infused by the culture, architecture, history, and resonance of an area and its people. This […]

On Traditional Ohlone Land: Dancing Earth at Alcatraz

“As contemporary people we’re taking the responsibility to create the songs and dances that speak to our time now…and creating intertribal and global indigenous relationships, and creating new languages of […]

SPEAK: RECKONING: A decade of FRESH Festival and 20 years of ALTERNATIVA

Reckoning with time. There is something thrilling about a new year, a fresh start, the beginning of another cycle around the sun. There is also the reckoning it invites, to […]

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company: Global Moves

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (MJDC) celebrates its 50th Anniversary Season with the World Premiere of the major international project, Global Moves, created in collaboration with and featuring guest performers from […]

In Practice: Mary Armentrout Dance Theater’s listening creates an opening

Choreographer Mary Armentrout is my dear friend and Feldenkrais practitioner. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about Mary Armentrout Dance Theater’s (MADT) upcoming show at […]

Dancing Again: My Body After a Near-Death Experience

As a dancer and choreographer, I always expected I would experience an injury, but I never imagined it would be something so significant as re-learning to walk, shower, and eat. […]

CANCELLED – 25th Annual Collage des Cultures Africaines

At this time, Diamano Coura West African Dance Company has cancelled their upcoming performance. An international African collaboration presented by Diamano Coura West African Dance Company in its 25th Anniversary […]

The Draw(back) of Awarding Achievement

Contributor note: Unattributed quotes were shared with me anonymously as research for this piece. Around this time every year we are inundated with being told what the “best” of the […]

CANCELLED – 350 + Millions of Moving Targets

At this time, the 2020 San Francisco International Arts Festival has cancelled this upcoming performance. Read more here. The 350 + Millions of Moving Targets is an intergenerational, multidisciplinary dance […]

In a New Place: Dance & Disability in 2018

The San Francisco Bay Area is known to be on the vanguard of what is possible in dance, who dances, where, and how. Because of the work of AXIS Dance […]