What’s in November’s Flask?

Jake and Ryan love watching dance. They can’t get enough. Every month they plan their calendar around their favorite upcoming shows. But in order to ease the tension and get into the mood, they also bring a cocktail catered to that specific performance. So what’s in November’s flask? Deborah Slater […]

October 25, 2012  |  Read Article

An Interview with Accompanist Eli Nelson

Back in 2006 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance summer program, I was dumbfounded when I first took a ballet class accompanied by Eli Nelson. After years of ballet accompaniment being equivalent to piano renditions of Swan Lake, I was floored when Eli started shredding on the guitar during […]

October 22, 2012  |  Read Article

Use it or Lose it

By Angela Mazziotta Metaphorically speaking, Human beans are the heartiest of all beans, we shuck our bucky butts around happy and superior – reigning over the Legume Regime which includes the inferior likes of limas, kidneys, pintos, mungs and greens. We are ranked so highly among these simple beans that […]

October 18, 2012  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Tat That!

Drawings by Maggie Stack; Text by Emmaly Wiederholt Are you a dancer? Do you have a tattoo? Join the club! Perhaps there’s something about the masochistic pain we put ourselves through, but more and more dancers are succumbing to the needle. But a tattoo is about more than pain… it’s […]

October 15, 2012  |  Read Article

“Even A Dead Fish”: A Dance Film

By Caitlin Hafer “Even A Dead Fish” is about how media affects our interactions with other people and our surroundings.  Using media images from the 1950s and today I created four different characters, each of whom is affected in different ways by the media images surrounding them. The film will […]

October 13, 2012  |  Read Article