An Interview with Amy Foley

Amy Foley is one of those rare gems in our local dance community that everyone seems to know and love. I caught up with her to ask about her experience dancing in the Bay Area; how it has changed, how she’s changed, and how that evolution continues. Emmaly Wiederholt:  How long have […]

July 23, 2012  |  Read Article

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

An Interview with SFCD student Madison Hoke

In 2008 I came to the Bay Area to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and in many ways I have never left. Though I have independently pursued a project-based freelance career and a path in dance writing, I still consider the Conservatory my home. Currently the Conservatory […]

June 25, 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