Tabled: Gender and Sexuality

Bay Area performance artists Nick Brentley, Jaq Dalziel, and Kevin Seaman discuss gender and sexuality as part of Chlo and Co's Tabled series.

March 31, 2022  |  Read Article

Tabled: Labor and a Living Wage

San Francisco-based dance artist Emily Hansel, New York City-based storyteller and photographer Steven Jones, and Connecticut-based artist and arts administrator Malakhi Eason discuss labor and a living wage as part of Chlo and Co's Tabled series.

March 28, 2022  |  Read Article

How Cultural Production Functions

Ninoska M’bewe Escobar, a dance scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance at the University of New Mexico, discusses her focus on bringing more awareness to the legacy of Pearl Primus, as well as why it is important to teach the history of dance forms alongside technique.

March 21, 2022  |  Read Article

“It Always Comes Back to African Dance”

Maguette Camara, a globally recognized West African dancer, choreographer, teacher, and drummer based in New York City, shares how African dance is at the root of most dance forms and thus benefits any dancer to train in, as well as how New York City has a flourishing African dance scene.

March 14, 2022  |  Read Article

Discerning The Diversity and Multiplicity of Dances within Africa

Momar Ndiaye, a dance artist from Senegal who is on faculty at the American Dance Festival and is an assistant professor at Ohio State University, talks about the political, technical, and social aspects of why Afro diasporic dance forms deserve equal footing with European classical dance forms in American college dance programs.

March 7, 2022  |  Read Article