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

Actions and Iterations of An Indigenous Female-Led Future

BY JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY This past July at the New Moon Ceremony in Berkeley, California – which was called for in the “Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth” treaty – treaty signer Pennie Opal Plant spoke of two things needed in this time of planetary crisis. We need […]

August 3, 2017  |  Read Article

Changing the Face of Dance around the Female Body

An interview with Krissy Keefer BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT In 1984, Krissy Keefer and Nina Fichter founded Dance Brigade to create and perform dance-theater that addresses the complex problems of contemporary American women. Prior, Krissy co-founded the Wallflower Order in 1975 as the nation’s first feminist dance company. I had the […]

February 8, 2016  |  Read Article