San Francisco, May 9, 2008 Abby Chen of the Chinese Cultural Center, invited me to create a site-specific improvisation on the bridge that crosses through Chinatown into downtown San Francisco. […]
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Shawl-Anderson Dance Center: Celebrating a Half-Century of Making Dance and Community
In 1958, dance class was $2 at the studio Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson started above a liquor store on College Avenue in Berkeley. Adjusted for inflation, that means they […]
Thread: Our three weeks with the San Francisco Ballet, Apr 2008
From the moment I walked in the front door off Franklin Street through the final rehearsal and showing, I felt excitement, warmth and support from everyone at the San Francisco […]
Working in The Garage: Tools to Help Carve Out Space for Contemporary Dance
Contemporary dance has a long history of being developed on the fringes of the cultural landscape. Choreographers have traditionally found space to make new work in basements, lofts, parking structures […]
Pleasure and the Body
It seems that dance should be the one place where the pleasure of the body is paramount—that the basis of dancing should be how we inhabit our bodies and the […]
Odissi Wildflower; A Modern Dancer
While working on a bachelor’s degree in American and English literature at the University of Washington, I took almost enough dance classes for a double major. Later, I moved to […]
