Tabled: Gender and Sexuality
Bay Area performance artists Nick Brentley, Jaq Dalziel, and Kevin Seaman discuss gender and sexuality as part of Chlo and Co's Tabled series.
March 31, 2022 | Read Article
Uplifting Voices through Burlesque and Dance
Jenn Freeman (aka Po’Chop), a Chicago-based performance artist, shares how she found her voice through burlesque and how her recent piece aimed to uplift Black women’s voices.
November 11, 2019 | Read Article
Respecting Sexual Boundaries in Contact Improvisation
An Interview with Brooks Yardley ILLUSTRATIONS BY LIZ BRENT Brooks Yardley is a practitioner of contact improvisation in Canada who published the online zine “Respecting Boundaries/Coexisting Genders: Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv.” In this interview, Brooks shares why they felt it was important to create the zine, […]
June 12, 2017 | Read Article
Why I Dance
Julia Roth helped produce Why I Dance, a pole dance film about women who come together to reclaim their bodies and themselves. BY JULIA ROTH It’s an understatement to say Why I Dance changed my life. It cracked open parts of me I had kept locked up, in fear of overflowing. I bottled […]
June 1, 2015 | Read Article
The Art of being a Woman/Beast
BY KATIE GAYDOS As a dancer in the Bay Area, I’ve found myself lately shying away from writing critical responses to local dance performances. I assumed writing about the work of people I encounter on a regular basis within the dance community would violate some professional boundary between the personal […]
October 4, 2014 | Read Article