Ms, Fs, and As, Oh My! Life After Graduate School, The Transition Awaiting

ON JUNE 13, 2010 I graduated from The Ohio State University with an M.F.A. in Dance. I moved to San Francisco on June 18. This transition has been an education […]

Big Dreams, Small Screen: Tuning Into Dance Reality Shows

ITโ€™S BROUGHT US SCHEMING Survivors, sadistic restaurateurs and women intent on marrying millionaires theyโ€™ve never met. And reality TV is now danceโ€™s biggest venue, with shows like So You Think […]

Crowdsourcing: Is it healthy?

CROWDSOURCING DANCE EMPOWERS the audience to collectively perform the roles of, at times, curator, programmer, and even funder, potentially stoking tension between arts professionals and the public. Defined by business […]

New View: Christy Bolingbroke

With fresh young faces popping up constantly, the local Bay Area dance community is a unique blend of seasoned and new perspectives. In Dance caught the new view from New […]

Stretching Across the Urban Jungle: ONSITE Presents Katie Faulknerโ€™s We Donโ€™t Belong Here

On the heels of an ambitious four-choreographer collaboration with Kara Davis, Manuelito Biag, and Alex Ketley, Katie Faulkner is not only stretching herself as an artist, but is now literally […]

SPEAK: Shifting the Paradigm

Many of us teachingย artists have unwittingly become stuck in dangerous perceptual habits. While this is happening across all levels of education, I want to focus on the issues of college […]

The Body Politic: Baroque Dance Speaks Truth to Power in The Temple of Glory

Dance has never beenย more political than it is today, with artists creating work on themes of feminism, racism, inequality, violence and the fight for justice. The issues may be topical, […]

Looking Back to Move Forward: A Continued Conversation with Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen

PART TWO OF A TWO-PART ARTICLE IN THE OCTOBER 2013 ISSUE OF IN DANCE Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen announced that come January 2014 KUNST-STOFF Dance Company (KSDC) will no […]

Dancing Lessons: How Engaging Dance Audiences Is Educating the Field

How many grants encourage you to come up with your own plan, experiment mid-stream with what works and what doesnโ€™t, and engage in discussions with other grant recipients while in […]

Bringing the Message: Naomi Diouf and Diamano Coura West African Dance Company

My conversation with Naomi Diouf, who with her husband Dr. Zakayria (Zak) Diouf is artistic director of Diamano Coura West African Dance Company, came about because of the upcoming celebration, […]