One Saturday afternoon last February, I sat upstairs in Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s large studio space watching Dana Lawton Dances (DLD) prepare their upcoming new work, The Farallonites.
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Big Moves Dance Company: Beyond Body Positive Towards Fat Liberation
In recent years the body positive movement has gone mainstream. From television to huge billboards you can find more representation of diverse bodies and the term “body positivity.” Companies like […]
From Streets of Oakland to World Stage: A Conversation with Johnny Lopez
For many, Friday signals the end of a work week, but for Johnny Lopez, founder of TURFinc there are no days off. From managing day to day operations to talent […]
SPEAK By Denise Leto
I have recently been collaborating on a multi-genre performance piece entitled Your Body is Not a Shark, which involves dance, music, poetry and sound collage with the choreographer Cid Pearlman, […]
Conducting the Future: How Disability and Improvisation Prepare Us To Be Unprepared
Left to right: Bhumi Patel, Stephanie Heit, and Raven Malouf-Renning, Queer Mad Electrics at Township Commons Park, Oakland, photo by Petra Kuppers [ID: Dancing people in silhouette with arms reaching […]
Presence and Liveness in Online Learning: A Lesson in Choreographing Students from Afar
For the past year, I have been working on a new choreography that premiered this past April 17-26 as a part of the annual Berkeley Dance Project (BDP) directed by […]
