San Francisco Movement Arts Festival: A Dance Feast

An Interview with Joan Lazarus BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY JANE HU The San Francisco Movement Arts Festival is a gathering of more than 250 dance artists who will come together to perform in Grace Cathedral on January 25th. Conceived and produced by Jim Tobin, a Bay Area dance advocate […]

January 10, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing Migrant Farmworkers’ Experiences

An Interview with Heryka Miranda BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Heryka Miranda is a dance artist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada who has been using approaches in expressive arts and dance movement therapy to work with migrant farmworker communities. Alongside Juan Luis Mendoza de la Cruz, she created The Sunflower Man using Indigenous […]

January 7, 2019  |  Read Article

Conversations, Processes and Insistences

An Interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist who works in performance and is based in northern Ontario, Canada. She has exhibited in museums, videos and installations in Canada and abroad. Her work centers Indigenous knowledge production in and through orality, conversation and embodied practices, including dance. […]

January 3, 2019  |  Read Article

2019 Dance Horoscopes

Can you believe it’s already 2019?! Will it be a year full of well-paid teaching jobs and international residencies, or will toe fungus bother you incessantly? Will you finally be granted serious funding, or will your choreographic arch nemesis soil your good name by posting embarrassing videos of you on […]

December 27, 2018  |  Read Article

Flockin’ Around the Tutu Tree

In keeping with our yearly tradition, we present the lyrics of a popular Christmas song, rewritten dancer-style. Sing along to the tune of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree!” ~~ Flockin’ around the tutu tree See the costumes piled high Tulle as fluffy as bunny fur And it’s stacked up to […]

December 20, 2018  |  Read Article