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

Retrograde Gave Up

By Madelyn Biven Sea foam births apple seeds while tulips cry outside of their skin.  Their bulbs are death of stars; collapsed and lathering black air.  Charcoal lines exfoliate with burning rose petals.  Pottery wheels are spinning into infinity, which is the space between eruptions and flat tires.  Clay is […]

July 19, 2012  |  Read Article

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