Review: Side by Side; November 3, 2007, Julia Morgan Center

Anyone walking down the 2600 block of Berkeleyโ€™s College Avenue was treated to both a warm evening and a warm scene on the first weekend of November. Outside the Julia […]

SPEAK: Discovering the Power and Ability to Take Action

Photo by John Carnahan I am deeply immersed in contact improvisation and site-specific danceโ€”exploring the possibilities/capabilities of my body in relationship to other bodies and in relationship to space/architecture. I […]

The Festival before the Festival

A preview of the 2007 Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions, a multi-day audition open to the public.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival: RAWdance: Drawing on a Decade

RAWdance returns to Yerba Buena Gardens, turning the downtown oasis into a stage for a site-specific retrospective. Honoring a decade of partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, two free […]

Navigating the Storm: A Conversation with KT Nelson About Dead Reckoning

Dominating recent headlines, the scientific world is now in unanimous agreement that 2014 was the warmest year on record, thus bringing back to the table the burning issuesโ€”no pun intendedโ€”of […]

Speak: World Dance

Photo by Erin Brauer If I could imagine aย high school experience, where I fit in, felt inspired, and gained nuanced insight from my peers, it would be attending an unconventional, […]

Excerpts From The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece

Editor’s note: Working to fulfill our creative dreams can be daunting at times and finding ways to navigate the ebb and flow of this journey can provide a newfound energy […]

The Call: San Francisco Native Margaret Jenkins Always Moves Forward

Margaret Jenkins, known to the dance world as Margy, has been making dances for most of her 75-years. She trained at the leading edge of performance with Judy Job, Welland […]

Critical Dialogues: Rachel Howard and Gregory Dawson

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

In Practice: Body Nerds: Judith Butler and Monique Jenkinson

On November 3, 2017, philosopher Judith Butler took to the CounterPulse stage and, be still my beating heart, danced. Joined in mutual illustriousness by Monique Jenkinson in a tempered version […]