Creating Hula in Response to Climate Change

An Interview with Patrick Makuakāne BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Patrick Makuakāne is the director of Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, a Bay Area-based dance company that blends traditional and contemporary forms of Hawaiian dance. He is presenting a new work that addresses climate change at Dance Mission Theater’s upcoming D.I.R.T. […]

March 7, 2019  |  Read Article

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

A Festival of Reckoning

An Interview with Kathleen Hermesdorf BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY ROBBIE SWEENY Kathleen Hermesdorf is the founder and director of the FRESH Festival in San Francisco each January, which features nearly a month of experimental dance, music and performance. This coming festival, she will premier her new piece, Reckoning, to […]

December 17, 2018  |  Read Article

Choreographing Resistance

An Interview with Raissa Simpson Raissa Simpson is a San Francisco based choreographer and the artistic director of PUSH Dance Company, which uses contemporary dance to vivify the stories of individuals from unique and overlooked communities. Raissa shares the challenges she faces as an African American mixed ancestry choreographer in […]

December 10, 2018  |  Read Article

Choreography for An Arm and A Half

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN; PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM ISOM In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Julie Crothers, a freelance dancer and emerging choreographer in the Bay Area. After dancing with AXIS Dance Company for three years, Julie began exploring her own choreographic voice. She describes the impetus of her piece […]

October 15, 2018  |  Read Article