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.
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.
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…
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…
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…