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

Whispering

Painting and prose by Julia Cost I am terribly fascinated by two people whispering. In the moment when it happens, it seems as though there is the stuff of a whole world– everything that came beforehand to bring them to this place where they lean towards each other and say […]

October 11, 2012  |  Read Article