A belly dancer stands on grass with her arms over her head holding a long sheer scarf trailing in the wind. The Golden Gate bridge is in the background.

The View From Here

Jill Randall catalogues how dance artists in the Bay Area are defying the current political climate by continuing to make relevant and dynamic work.

November 24, 2025 | Read Article

Embedded in Community Dance

UK-based Bronwen Wilson Rashad shares her journey leading creative sessions in perinatal mental health, engaging in drag folk dance, and emphasizing body awareness and expression in community dance.

July 14, 2025 | Read Article

Dancers wearing white move around the stage lifting long tube-like structures.

Impacting Many

Valerie Green, a dance artist in Queens, New York City, and the director of Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, shares how her choreography, teaching, and studio all come together to contribute to her mission of multicultural understanding through dance and community building.

July 1, 2024 | Read Article

Four dancers move about on a red and silver lit stage covered with many props.

Scores for Improvising with Ancestors

Kevin O’Connor, a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in collaboration, improvisation, community-engaged arts, somatics, ecology, and queer art practices, writes an ode to his “dancestor” Billy and makes suggestions for scores to improvise with one’s ancestors.

June 5, 2023 | Read Article

Ralph dances in a studio with one dancer wearing pink. He lunges with one arm extended, and she kneels ont he floor with one arm extended. Two other dancers watch.

Dance as a Medium to Access Different Communities

Associate Professor Ralph Buck, Head of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland, explains his community-oriented pedagogical approach that challenges dance’s role in the world.

January 16, 2023 | Read Article