Destiny Dance Gives Hope to Oakland Youth

By Mary Ellen Hunt It’s a hot day in North Oakland, but in the cool studios of Destiny Arts Center, all it takes to get the dancers going is to […]

Leaving an Imprint: The Necessity of Dancers for Livelihood

“When I’m taking dance class, I just feel so able. I feel like my body can do anything; like I’m Wonder Woman or something.” “Dancing meant so much to me […]

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 […]

Expect the Unexpected: Subverting the Ballet Paradigm with Amy Seiwert and SKETCH 3

“When I started making work, no one was paying any attention whatsoever,” Amy Seiwert recalls. After nineteen years spent dancing for Sacramento Ballet and Smuin Ballet, she launched her choreographic […]

Dance Discourse Project #15

Judith Butler on Gender and Performativity CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS. Legendary gender, queer, and performance theorist, Judith Butler, responds to contemporary Bay Area performance and explores resonances with her work. […]

Double Visions

This past June I attended two professional events that offered their shares of stimulation and stupefaction. This year’s Dance Critics Association conference, which I have attended for many years , […]

Welcome, Dec 2012

With a smile on my face, I’m giddy reporting that my mind, body and heart are renewed and refreshed from spending a few glorious weeks in Italy. My favorite part […]

Jack Carpenter: a Master of Illumination

The estimable dance and theater lighting designer Thomas Skelton once remarked, “There are many barriers between the dancer and good lighting, but each can be hurdled with enough imagination, common […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2013

It’s an exceptional time to be working as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, administrator, technician, or in one of the many businesses that support dance, because dance is flourishing in […]

Dance Discourse Project #14

SMALL in the Bay Area In the ecology of any performance scene, different kinds of places play different roles. In the bay area there has been a vigorous history of […]