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

Who I Am Is the Art I Make

Maurya Kerr is a San Francisco-based choreographer, educator and dancer, as well as the founder and artistic director of tinypistol, her project-based contemporary dance company. She weighs in on the many meanings and modes of contemporary dance, especially in our new political climate. This interview is part of a series […]

January 16, 2017  |  Read Article

Where are you in dance right now?

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Where are you in dance right now? I posed this question to twelve high-school dancers last year. My intention is to ask them each year for as long as they respond, hopefully chronicling their growth through the practice of dance. Only eight of the original twelve high-schoolers responded to my […]

July 21, 2014  |  Read Article