September 2007

Outside Looking In; The ESP Project Explores Separation and Incarceration in 51802 By Nina Sazevich: Preview of ESP Project’s upcoming dance-theater performance around the emotional implications of having a loved […]

June 2007

Dance History According to Drag By Selby Wynn Schwartz Signature Style: Eclectic Ethnic By Lily Kharrazi San Francisco Conservatory Takes on Forsythe By Emily Hite The Noodle Factory is Dead, […]

Welcome, Oct 2012

I imagine we would all want to be informed of the following:  Congratulations, you’re a winner! Hearing thunderous bravo’s with a standing ovation. Receiving that letter informing you that your […]

Welcome, Sep 2012

It has been a busy summer. It started with me waking up one morning with a sharp pain in my lower right abdomen that became appendicitis and within a few […]

How to Move to Berlin: a Dancer’s Survival Guide or 12-step Program or a Gentrification Manual Or… Can Moving Be Called Contemporary Dance?

Full Disclosure: This article doesn’t exactly know what form it wants to take yet. Similar to its author, this article holds a lot of new information from the past year […]

Delicate Acts of Artistic Courage: Performing Diaspora returns to CounterPULSE

If you’re reading In Dance, then I probably don’t need to tell you that among San Francisco arts organizations, CounterPULSE has one of the strongest reputations for presenting risk-taking and […]

Big Dreams, Small Screen: Tuning Into Dance Reality Shows

IT’S BROUGHT US SCHEMING Survivors, sadistic restaurateurs and women intent on marrying millionaires they’ve never met. And reality TV is now dance’s biggest venue, with shows like So You Think […]

SF Conservatory’s New SoMa Studios: An Expanded Vision for Ballet Education

Summer Lee Rhatigan has just opened a ballet school without mirrors. They teach Gaga. It’s like neo-Europe over there on 8th and Folsom, turning ballet dancers into improv artists, melting […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2011

What was your first dance image? Whatever your response, it’s most likely that your answer to this question informs the type of dance you consume, and affects which classes and […]

A New Type of Franchise in Los Angeles: CHIME program expands

After three years of running his own dance company, Bradley Michaud took a good, hard look at his accomplishments and asked himself a question. “Have I found my voice or […]