Gaining Perspectives, Changing Perceptions – ARTICLE #2: Our World in Constant Motion

Editors Note: In the December 2016 issue of In Dance Farah Yasmeen Shaikh wrote about her experiences as a Pakistani Muslim-American woman Kathak artist and her work teaching and performing […]

Creating Space for Hip Hop: A Spotlight on Micaya & SoulForce

I remember first meeting Micaya backstage when I was volunteering for the San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in November 2010. Glamorous in […]

Resource Equity: Connecting culturally specific dance communities with grants funding

Introduction   There’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, I’ve worked extensively […]

Tips for Documenting and Preserving Your Dances

The ephemeral beauty and spontaneity of live performance is what draws many of us to dance, and also what challenges choreographers who want to leave a lasting legacy of their […]

A SOTA Love Letter: Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

Photo by Brittany Ceres We immersed ourselves in our art. The San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA) dance program director, Elvia Marta was our maestro, our inspiration, our modern/jazz […]

Welcome, May 2012

Where do you find inspiration? I recently had the pleasure of meeting Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of the American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance television series. He’s […]

Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers: 閩橋 Min Bridges: stories from the Malay World, Taiwan, and mainland China

The Min Languages form the basis of Taiwanese, Hokkien, Teochew, and Hainanese. For most of the 20th and 21st centuries, Min languages have been looked down upon as dialects: students […]

Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change

Dancing Care In April 2021, right after we’d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator.  We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]

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 […]

Welcome

I always wanted to be a dancer, even before I knew what being a dancer was or might mean. Dreams become facts. The human body is on a 24-hour-a-day schedule […]