Building a studio: The tale of 975 Howard Studio

By Derek Harris             When my partner Meegan and I first began to contemplate starting our own dance space, a famous quote from an old baseball movie kept coming to mind.  “If you build it, they will come.”  Well, building a baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field […]

July 12, 2012  |  Read Article

Dance’s Real Crisis

By Emmaly Wiederholt Lately I’ve been hearing a lot on the economics of dance. Lightsey Darst’s article series “The Poorest Art: Dance and Money” and Brittany Beyer’s article “A Dancer’s Retort” in the Huffington Post both popped up on my computer screen recently. At Dance/USA’s annual conference I sat through […]

July 9, 2012  |  Read Article

Thoughts on Trust

By Emmaly Wiederholt In Malinda LaVelle’s “Urge” I lick water off the floor. And yes, while one could argue that I’m crazy to willingly and repeatedly lick the floor (although I do clean it first), I want to argue that it’s because I trust her and the other members of […]

June 11, 2012  |  Read Article

Freedom through Constraint

By Emmaly Wiederholt As a generalization, dancers seek freedom, both in range of motion and in expression. We constantly seek to push our boundaries, giving ourselves the greatest variety of choices available. However in the past few weeks I’ve seen three shows that made me reconsider the role of constraint […]

May 14, 2012  |  Read Article

Notes on Dancing

By Katie Gaydos I sat down to write a clear and cohesive argument about dance in the Bay Area. I thought that the process of writing would force me to formulate a clear understanding of what it means to me to be a dance artist in 2012 and what kinds […]

May 3, 2012  |  Read Article