Keep the Reels Rolling; Why the Bay Area Should Fight to Keep Dance/Screen

San Francisco Performances has pulled the plug on its Dance/Screen series of film and video presentations, curated for the last 9 years by Charlotte Shoemaker. โ€œIt was a matter of […]

Embracing the Past and Guiding Tomorrow

Halau o Keikiali’i performs Friday, March 4, at 12 noon in San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda as part of the free Rotunda Dance Series, presented by Dancers’ Group and World […]

Bali Takes Center Stage

With the mere mention of the word “Bali,” images of lush, green rice terraces and dancing maidens often come to mind. Though just one of over 17,000 islands that make […]

Philanthropy Future/Present

Ten years from now: these things I know. New program officers will think they are smarter and funnier than their predecessors. Foundations will have undergone (at least once) strategic planning […]

Quick and Clear, and Queer: An Interview with Keith Hennessy

Busy, busyโ€”such is the life of an artist currently performing his own work both locally and in New York, simultaneously working on a PhD in Performance Studies, as well as […]

Welcome, May 2010

Community โ€” A complex notion? Or as simple and essential as breathing? Our community can be represented by those we are born into, or those we choose for consistent needs […]

Crossroads: Part II: Choreographers

THIS ARTICLE is the second in a three-part series on the transformative experiences of Bay Area dancers, choreographers and dance teachers. The first article on dancers ran in the September […]

Diving Deeper Into Flamenco

For the last twelve years, Iโ€™ve lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, studying flamenco and performing professionally. While there are many good flamenco teachers passing down the tradition, Iโ€™ve […]

The Art of the Possible: Increase funding for the arts in 2008

It has been four years since the California Arts Councilโ€™s (CAC) budget was drastically cut by 94% leaving our state at the bottom of the nation in per capita spending […]

The Dance v. The Critic: Who Has The Right to Write?

IN 2007 IN DANCE DEVOTED a majority of its November issue to the topic of dance criticism. Many critics and community members commented on the threat of a kind of […]