The Bunion: Dance Hard, SKATE HARDER!

By Emmaly Wiederholt and Maggie Stack In order to find the best dance around, San Francisco has decided to do away with grant panels, dance reviews, and presenters. From here on out it’s pure, ruthless, good old-fashioned ROLLER DERBY! (For those of you who don’t know, half the entertainment of […]

July 16, 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

Trains

Paintings and poetry by Julia Cost   I like to stand on train platforms very close to the edge and feel the rush of the cars charging past me When they are finally gone I feel like I am going to fall over I like to stand hands-free in speeding […]

July 5, 2012  |  Read Article

Measure the Music: “Let it Snow!” by Lena Horne

By Jake Padilla, with help from fellow dance enthusiast Stevie Weller       The 46th measure: Let’s light this blog up like Christmas on the Fourth of July!!   July’s fog is like the calming state of the first snow in Colorado… at night. There is so much detail and subtlety, […]

July 2, 2012  |  Read Article