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 […]

Of Collaboration: Two Perspectives: One Performance; Part 1

I first started collaborating with composer Bill Wolter in 2005, attempting to get out of the composer/choreographer dichotomy and into a place where we were using each other’s ideas and […]

SPEAK By Jessica Robinson Love

I more or less quit dancing five years ago. Like many of us, I came into arts administration as a dancer needing to pay the bills. But after a few […]

Behind the Glass: A Sneak Peak Into The Lusty Lady

The first time I ever walked into the dimly lit trappings of a strip club, I was promoting Tommy Lee’s solo career. What better place to advertise than with a […]

Tax Tips for Artists

Home in Office If you book your gigs from home and/or rehearse there, you may take the portion of your apartment that is used exclusively and year round for that […]

San Francisco Dance Film Festival

THE FIRST ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL, presented by Motion Pictures and hosted by Ninth Street Independent Film Center, is taking place March 5-7, 2010. The weekend will involve, […]

Reflection on Dancer, Storyteller, and Cultural Interpreter, Lanny Pinola

Editor’s Note: Dancers’ Group strives to honor the diverse and rich legacy of all forms of dance. To continue this mission we are working with Berkeley-based dancer and dance ethnologist, […]

Moving Histories

The devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the destructive fury of Hurricane Gustav in 2008 and most recently, the massive earthquake in Haiti have shocked the world […]

SPEAK By Jose Navarrete

In 2007 I went to India, and on that journey I experienced everything from horror to beauty: magnificent palaces and temples contrasting with the utmost human misery. Throughout it all, […]

Monkey Business at Monkey Town: When Tour Dates Go Awry

Going on tour is like a dream come true, or so I thought when I’ve imagined the splendor of the road countless times. When it actually happens it is another […]