Dance and Flower: dNaga’s peace about life: Dancing with Parkinson’s

We dancers demand an impossibly high degree of control—over our muscles, our bones, our emotions. We strive to defy powers greater than ourselves (gravity, for starters) and to outwit random […]

Welcome, June 2010

Certain smells elicit a flood of memories and summer seems to hold an inordinate share of these olfactory remembrances. Heat is most likely a contributing factor and this month I […]

Ethnic Dance Festival: Chatting with Carlos Carvajal Behind the Scenes

It is intriguing that for the past four seasons, the Ethnic Dance Festival has had more than one artistic director on staff. Choosing from a wide variety of talented artists […]

Abhinaya Anniversary: Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Celebrates 30

2010 marks 30 years of performances and instruction in the Bay Area by Mythili Kumar, who founded the company in 1980. Abhinaya’s performances showcase the ancient living tradition of classical […]

Bay Area Ballet Makes a Comeback

SAN FRANCISCO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DANCE TOWN. The mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, was born here; dozens of choreographers and dancers have gotten their start here or decided […]

Thinking Big

OVER THE MANY YEARS that I have been working with artists and arts organizations on institutional fundraising (aka grantwriting), I have learned that one of the most important jobs of […]

Being Blurred: Ralph Lemon Interviewed

Ariel Osterweis Scott (AS): The last time I saw you was at a Miguel Gutierrez performance. I remember you said something provocative regarding an explicit performance art piece I hadn’t […]

Innovation Within Tradition: Covering the Annual Classical Indian Dance Festival

IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD, the words “classical” and “traditional” in terms of dance are often oversimplified and misinterpreted as “old” or “fixed.” Classical Indian Dance is no exception. Unfortunately for […]

Dancing Borders, Digitial Nations

DRESSED IN CAMBODIAN REGALIA and wearing a highly-stylized tail, Ouk Solichumnith appears as Sovann Macha. Her wrists turn softly as she kicks a leg back and upward past her waist; […]

Repertoire Rights: The Legalities of Remounting Work

IN THE FILM THE LAST STATION, the Countess Sofia tries to drown herself after chancing upon the will of her husband, Leo Tolstoy. He has not left his prodigious body […]