A Dance to Understand Cancer

Bay Area director/choreographer Lenora Lee describes how she created "In the Skin of Her Hands" by gathering interviews with breast cancer survivors and combining them with contemporary and aerial dance.

October 28, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing through Death

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Liv Schaffer, a young dance artist living in the Bay Area. Liv lost both of her parents to cancer, and set out to process her experience of loss through dance. Her ongoing project, Deadication, incorporates dance and video, most […]

June 22, 2017  |  Read Article

To the Point: An Interview with Gregg Bielemeier

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Gregg spoke in a series of direct declarations. He could be summed up as seriously funny, or perhaps funnily serious; either way, he was quick to make his point. When he danced, something else surfaced entirely. The space began to swirl around him […]

November 17, 2014  |  Read Article