Information and resources for the San Francisco Bay Area dance community http://www.dancersgroup.org kegan@dancersgroup.org (Kegan Marling) kegan@dancersgroup.org (Kegan Marling) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:00:00 GMT en-us http://www.dancersgroup.org/download/DG_logo_color.jpg http://www.dancersgroup.org http://www.dancersgroup.org/programs_newstages.php http://www.dancersgroup.org/programs_newstages.php Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:00:00 GMT Dancers' Group is proud to announce the launch of a new granting program helping Bay Area dance companies and artists pay for renting one of four theaters in San Francisco. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_307.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_307.html Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Sonia Reiter. When New Orleans-born, Berlin-based choreographer Meg Stuart walks into a crowded room her presence ricochets against the walls penetrating the bystanders. The stakes are at once raised and there is a a sudden palpable energy in the space. She is 40-something, tiny and compact, around 5'2" with a slender, muscular build, strong handsome features and thin blondish hair that flops over her forehead in multiple directions. She is quiet and unobtrusive and yet her intense observation of the people around her puts them all figuratively onstage. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_305.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_305.html Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Daniel Schifrin. A new museum is an odd place, brimming with contradictions. On the one hand, a museum building, however post-modern, is infused with people's expectations of quietly contemplating material culture. On the other hand, so much of contemporary art is noisy, dynamic, multi-media, and often task-oriented. In other words, the temple meets our kitchen table. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_304.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_304.html Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Patricia Reedy. "The best part about dance for my students is that it has become 'cool' to take risks and try new things. It is no longer peer accepted to stand back and act 'too cool' for dance--risk taking is where it's at." -- E, 4th grade classroom teacher, NHA entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_303.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_303.html Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Kathryn Roszak. In these times, it's hard to know with any certainty what the future holds for the ballet world. While there still seems to be plenty of room for the status quo, with big ballet companies staying afloat, it's a challenge for new, small dance companies to emerge. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_302.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_302.html Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Staff. 2010 marks 30 years of performances and instruction in the Bay Area by Mythili Kumar, who founded the company in 1980. Abhinaya's performances showcase the ancient living tradition of classical Bharatanatyam tracing its evolution through an extensive repertoire inspired by India's religious, mythological, and contemporary literature. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_299.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_299.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Kegan Marling. The panel-based selection process frequently used by arts funders, residency programs and award committees has always felt on par with how dodge ball teams were picked in PE class--elitist, superficial and incorrigibly human. I get a little ruffled thinking about the career-affecting decisions made by small groups of people who may or may not be familiar with my work. Who wants a few panel experts (translation: opinionated people) determining the worth of an artistic venture? entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_300.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_300.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Lou Fancher. The eighth annual Bay Area Tap Festival hits the boards August 16-22. A rapid-fire week of workshop classes, free panel discussions, and community showcase performances, all hosted by Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, will build energy and enthusiasm for the festival's grand finale, The Bay Area Rhythm Exchange concert performances. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_301.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010July_301.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Wayne Hazzard. How do we catalyze creativity? I have a crystal ball on my desk. The optical beauty of the sphere never ceases to provide amusement to first time visitors to my office--and even a few Dancers' Group staff entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_296.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_296.html Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Sri Susilowati. When first I moved to The States years ago, my artistic mission/intention was to introduce Indonesian dance to Americans and to preserve the Indonesian arts. However, over this time, I changed my perspective on the action of preserving. I found that Americans who have studied Indonesian dance tend to be even more conservative than Indonesians. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_294.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_294.html Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Evangel King. I often think I am without value as a dance artist, yet I know from the bottom of my soul, dance is the very center of my life and is my true calling. Living with both extremes and holding them in an embrace rather than using the word but to cancel one or the other out is like a splash in the face that invokes openness and depth, cultivating and watering my creativity. A tenacity wells up from my soul to make art. It builds like a wave from the unseen depths emerging as a full-blown tsunami. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_293.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_293.html Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos. I feel. In quiet moments I begin to notice things that are sensual, things that are always, and my thoughts like fascia holding everything together. I experience my city-home of San Francisco as an ever-shifting and ever-potential construction site--a cold network of concrete structure and simultaneously a breathing exoskeleton embodying itself with human communities. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_295.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_295.html Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Carlos Carvajal. It is intriguing that for the past four seasons, the Ethnic Dance Festival has had more than one artistic director on staff. Choosing from a wide variety of talented artists and performers, both CK Ladzepo and Carlos Carvajal are tasked with the difficult job of streamlining up to 50 audition finalists representing a multitude of countries: Spain, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, China, Portugal, Bulgaria, to name a few. With only 34-36 spots in the season line-up, it's no wonder it takes two to curate four weekends of top-notch dance. Carvajal was eager to share his program letter, which will appear in the EDF's program, and what follows is a candid portrait of his job as an artistic director and his thoughts on this year's show. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_291.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_291.html Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Michael Estanich.Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and after three years of focusing on navigating the rocky shores of academic life, I have ventured back into professional performance and choreography. Through part practicality and part innovation, a new approach to making work has emerged for me. I know that the idea of long distance collaboration is not new, but it has enlivened a set of curious and uneasy questions in me. How can I possibly make new dances when the dancers and I live in different cities? Who has creative control over the project? Can I make a dance 'outside' the studio, and if so, what is it going to look like? entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_290.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_290.html Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Claudia Bauer. At the end of the movie Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock's character tearfully confesses that she really does want world peace. Okay, it's a little silly--and I'm not embarrassed to admit that I cry every time I see it. Because as much we want to laugh off our worries about the planet, they're always tugging at us. But what can we do to improve even the small things, much less bring about world peace? entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_289.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010June_289.html Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Wayne Hazzard. Certain smells elicit a flood of memories and summer seems to hold an inordinate share of these olfactory remembrances. Heat is most likely a contributing factor and this month I am noticing smells that are potent and even piquant, provoking recollections of time spent in and out of the dance studio. Along with the plethora of street smells, that can be harsh and even unpleasant, our proximity to the ocean is a reminder of an ever-shifting aromatic mix with base notes of baking bread, a hint of Thai spices, vanilla, wet dog, tobacco and beer; this perfumic melange is like yeast, ever-changing, and a lively metaphor for expanding within self. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_283.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_283.html Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo. I was making my way home from the Financial District to the Mission on BART after work; feet pinched by the not-so-comfortable shoes I wore that day as part of my day time drag; nose buried in some reading about cultural participation in the region while texting Ilia, one of the dancers in the group I sing with, about picking her up for rehearsal. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_286.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_286.html Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Sonia Reiter. When meeting Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa to talk about their new collaboration tribes/dominion premiering at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on May 20, my goal was to speak as little as possible. Hopefully I would just dangle topics that they would like bait and fly together, and I could simply sit back and witness. Luckily David and Sara are so intellectually and artistically enamored with each other that this is pretty much how the afternoon goes. At the time of this interview they haven't begun their real creation period yet, though the piece has been logistically in the works and on their minds for over two years now. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_287.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_287.html Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Kegan Marling. To describe 2nd Sundays, I often use our tag line: A free salon where artists share work and dialogue with the audience and fellow artists. After watching the program grow over the past 4 years, I've realized this statement doesn't capture that 2nd Sundays is so much more than a conversation. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_284.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_284.html Mon, 17 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Maureen Walsh. Can you imagine laughing for thirty minutes straight? I mean, straight through. Laughing. Non-stop. No pause. Not stopping to talk or relax for a second. Pure laughter for a whole thirty minutes. Eight people did just this in the studio space at Million Fishes Gallery on Bryant Street--they laughed for 30 minutes. Straight. Why? It was an experiment--part of Jorge De Hoyos' exploration of boundaries in his art making. Every kind of laughing happened in that room, in that thirty minutes. Soft laughs, great gufaws, shrieking contests, quiet shakes and utter ridiculousness. What for? That's what De Hoyos asked the group to do. That was the score, the map he planned out, and the others were there to make it happen, to support his curiosity, to walk through the exercise and make it a reality. So they laughed for thirty minutes straight. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_285.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_285.html Mon, 17 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Elizabeth Zimmer. The Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, a biennial festival in Duesseldorf, Germany, is either a bonanza of work opportunities or an exercise in "body fascism," depending on whom you talk to. Listen to Benjamin Levy, an American choreographer who's been there, and he'll tell you it's a fantastic chance to learn how the European dance community does business, "emphasiz[ing] friendship, exchange, and investigation rather than the standard commercial aims I'm accustomed to." entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_282.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_282.html Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Sherwood Chen. Located six hours north of San Francisco along California's Lost Coast, Petrolia (population 500) is the home of inkGround, which since its development in 2008, has served host to artist residencies, outdoor dance workshops and new performance developments by Shinichi Iova-Koga and the diverse artistic contributors who shape his company inkBoat. I arrived at inkGround for the first time in September 2008 to join inkBoat's weeklong residency to develop The Crazy Cloud Collection, a new assembly of dance fragments directed by acclaimed dancer and director Ko Murobushi, one of today's most important Butoh exponents. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_288.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2010/2010May_288.html Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Claudia Bauer. We dancers demand an impossibly high degree of control--over our muscles, our bones, our emotions. We strive to defy powers greater than ourselves (gravity, for starters) and to outwit random misfortunes like illness and injury that can delay achievement or derail a career. Yet even at our best, all we really do is occupy a point on the continuum of human ability, and a fleeting one at that. At another point on the continuum, nearer than we may realize, are dancers with Parkinson's disease. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_244.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_244.html Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Laura Maguire. Much celebrated this year is the 100th anniversary of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the Paris-based company that changed the face of dance in the twentieth century, as well as having enormous influence on the worlds of music, fashion, and design. Formed in 1909 by Russian impresario extraordinaire, Serge (Sergei) Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes was responsible for revolutionizing classical ballet, both in terms of its modernist approach to choreography and its experimental collaborations with other art forms. Some of the twentieth century's most noted choreographers-Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska, and George Balachine-began their careers with the Ballets Russes, which also nurtured such incredible dance talent as Tamara Karsavina, Anna Pavlova, and Alexandra Danilova, among many others. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_246.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_246.html Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT By Maureen Walsh. Busy, busy-such is the life of an artist currently performing his own work both locally and in New York, simultaneously working on a PhD in Performance Studies, as well as preparing for a month long 20th anniversary Home Season complete with performances, publications, and a 12-hour queer performance marathon. All of this is probably only half of what Keith Hennessy is actually up to these days, but somehow he also managed to squeeze in time to answer my questions. What follows are his quick witted, poignant and insightful answers. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_242.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_242.html Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT By Rachel Howard. Back in February or March of 2000, I braved MUNI in the rain and headed to the Cowell Theater for my first concert of Bay Area dance. This was a showcase juxtaposing student works with professional companies, and I watched with avid attention, but mostly, during the intermissions, I listened. I eavesdropped on klatches of what appeared to be choreographers and dancers. One woman said loudly that the Aerial Dance Festival was coming up. I butted in. "Aerial dance? Like people dance from ropes and harnesses in the air?" She explained that they also danced of the sides of buildings and mountain faces, and from trapezes. My eyes must have been wide, because her sweetly pitying expression was like a hand upon my shoulder. "Oh, honey," she said. "You've got a lot to see." entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_243.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009December_243.html Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT By Wayne Hazzard. Don't stop believin'- yes, the now-famous power ballad by Journey originally airing in 1981, speaking to my state of mind then, before cell phones and emails, before AIDS and HIV, before lovers and husband, before believing in bald, before dancing with Ed Mock, Margaret Jenkins and Joe Goode, before meeting Anna Halprin and Lucas Hoving, before founding Dancers' Group and the Footwork Studio. It was a time when dancers taught high-impact aerobics classes that were cash-cows. That was how dancers made livings, now it's Pilates and yoga. Dancers wore tights, leotards and unitards to class, teachers scolded or threatened to kick-out the baggy-clothed, and a select group dominated modern dance training in San Francisco. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_239.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_239.html Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Anne Bluethenthal. Krissy Keefer is known to many of us in the Bay Area dance scene as a passionate performer, flamboyantly outspoken artist, an ardent activist, a charismatic and committed leader, a prolific producer, and a mentor and teacher to countless young artists and children. I have been privy to her thoughts and progress for years, as a fellow artist, peer and friend. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_234.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_234.html Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Mary Ellen Hunt. When I sat down to talk about outreach with ODC artistic director KT Nelson, school director Kimi Okada, and outreach coordinator Annie Jupiter-Jones on a sunny morning at ODC's Shotwell St. studios, I was all set to draw a neat diagram and map out the organization's various community programs. As they began rattling off programs, describing them in kaleidoscopic detail, it quickly became clear that mere paper could not contain their dizzying array of educational efforts. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_238.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_238.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Shae Colett. In a dance form that requires a heightened sense of patience, self motivation, confidence, risk taking, and willingness to fail (as well as the willingness to succeed), it is not surprising the amount of underlying scores in one improvisation, meaning: guidelines, tracking or even reference to what the dance could become. I have developed many fascinations throughout my practice of improvisation as performance. I consider myself a questioning person; I like to know all the facts therefore, I ask a lot of questions. Recently I have been trying to hold back my questioning disposition in order to allow my instincts to take over. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_236.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_236.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Ryan Crowder. CounterPULSE wanted to try something new with Performing Diaspora to better support work from artists, document the process of production and to interact with audiences. We created a virtual artist residency, like none other we have seen before, thus expanding the organization's breadth and depth online so that the artistic work, performances and discussions can reach beyond a visit to our space. Audiences can now be more involved in the creation of the work, get to know the artists and watch their pieces develop over time. It's our hope that this builds more investment in the program than had someone simply seen an event posting and come to a show. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_233.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_233.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT Edited by Maureen Walsh. Traversing personal and cultural borders are two topics that the Performing Diaspora artists, staff and audience are talking about. I've sifted though the CounterPULSE blog, selecting compelling exerpts from Prumsodun Ok, Sri Susilowati and Adia Whitaker. These snippets hightlight thier trials and triumphs in bridging cultural boundaries of gender, identity and creative innovation. I hope these encourage you to join the discussion currently in progress at http://counterpulse.org/blog. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_230.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009November_230.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Kate Law. California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art to be performed, such as the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Some traditional artists, however, want to innovate within their form and there is little support for experimenting within tradition. That is where CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora festival comes in. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_226.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_226.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Kate Law. On October 2nd Humanities West opens its 25th Anniversary Season with "Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler: Redefining our Place in the Universe," a two-day program of lectures, discussions, and the premiere of Kathryn Roszak's "The Star Dances." This event is a celebration of the International Year of Astronomy-honoring the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of the telescope in 1609. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009September_216.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009September_216.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Emily Hite. For decades, Jenkins has been recognized as a leading choreographer, dancer, teacher, mentor, organizer, and supporter of dance. During that time, 110 company dancers have been part of making the work along with numerous collaborators, most notably Michael Palmer. As dancer #110 as well as a journalist, I find pleasure in learning about Jenkins' journeys in process and creative explorations through the lens of the company's living history. I have cornered current and past MJDC dancers and associates for interviews, receiving a welcoming response of contributions. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_225.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_225.html Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein. Our first international tour began with a poster. We'd like to claim that we embarked on creating a new work from some deep-seated artistic urgency, but no, it started with a poster. We were in Singapore in January 2007, exploring the city on an extended layover before an overdue vacation. A friend, and native resident, took us on a whirlwind tour through a maze of air-conditioned malls, eventually leading us to two huge Epcot Center-like domes, right on the waterfront. There it was at the entrance to the Esplanade, the city's main arts complex-a glossy, shadowy dance image pulling us in. Factually, it told us it was the eve of the 2007 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Viscerally it told us we wanted to be on that poster. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_228.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_228.html Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Patricia Bullit. On July 28 Jill Togawa, Director of Purple Moon Dance Company, and I held a conversation in my Berkeley home regarding her upcoming site specific performance work, When Dreams Are Interrupted. Although I've never been audience to Purple Moon Dance Company, Jill and I were mutually interested in each other's work and began a friendship while serving on the Bay Area Dance Award Committee, the Izzies. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_227.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_227.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Sima Belmar. Is it possible to write dance criticism without special authority (though it will probably be actively granted or denied the writer), but rather with an eye (ear, fingertip, tongue) toward multiple knowledge bases, projects, and structures that position dance, writ large in the larger fabric of society? And if we accept that the dance review is the story of a performance, if the critic is somehow speaking for the work or for the artist, does this seal off the voice of the work, of the artist? What is the critic's responsibility to the artist as she double-speaks for herself and for the artist? entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_223.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_223.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Natalie Greene. Modern dance is thriving in Lima, Peru. Classes, performances and festivals abound and contemporary dance is in the public eye. Popular choreographers are celebrities in Lima and receive media coverage beyond just previews and reviews. Reporters delve into the daily and personal lives of Lima's successful dance-makers, and the public is interested. With such popular appeal and fashionable mystique, one wonders whether modern dance is just the latest Limeno trend, or if there is lasting value in this newly well-known art form. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_221.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009October_221.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos. After three decades of use, the ODC Theater in the Mission District of San Francisco is finally on its way to a much-deserved renovation. While only the brick walls and original foundation lay bare on 17th and Shotwell Streets, exciting visions for a new home for performance fill the negative space. In Dance approached ODC Theater Director Rob Bailis for an update on these developments. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009September_218.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009September_218.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT By John Killacky. Sitting in Yerba Buena's theater last March, I was mystified by the ecstatic reaction French choreographer Jerome Bel received restaging his "encounter" with classical Thai dancer Pichet Klunchan. All around me young dancers and a wide spectrum of Bay Area choreographers seemed to be having epiphanies, while older postmodernists like myself were bored and cranky at what we perceived to be derivative conceptual posturing and exoticized multiculturalism. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009September_211.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009September_211.html Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT By Edward C. Warburton. Imagine artistic and cultural exchange on a worldwide scale. One where live, truly collaborative performing arts events occur on a regular basis at multiple locations simultaneously, not simply connecting a few sites or broadcasting shows to ballparks, but linking theatres and performance studios with classrooms and public spaces in rich telepresence, interactive experiences in virtual venues all over the world. The next generation of telematic performance will rely on advanced cyber infrastructure platforms that will enable distributed digital media arts practices using high definition audio and video, distributed computation, high performance optical networks, and interactive media environments. This is the future, not fantasy. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/programs_2ndsundays.php http://www.dancersgroup.org/programs_2ndsundays.php Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT The upcoming proposal deadline for the 2nd Sundays program is for the Spring season, running February through May 2009. Selected artists each present up to 10 minutes of work followed by a facilitated in-depth conversation between the artists and the audience about the work. This program is an ideal opportunity to gain useful feedback about works-in-progress, or to delve deeper into completed work. entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009July_209.html http://www.dancersgroup.org/content/programs/articles/2009/2009July_209.html Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT This speech was delivered on June 3, 2009 at the Opening Plenary of Dance/USA's annual conference in Houston, Texas, the theme of which was "Sustainable Future: Reality Check." entertainment http://www.dancersgroup.org/download/HitandRunHula.mp3 http://www.dancersgroup.org/download/HitandRunHula.mp3 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:00:00 GMT Dozens of hula dancers hit the streets of San Francisco for a day of free performance. Listen to artistic director Patrick Makuakane talk about this exciting upcoming event. Produced by Sarah Jessee entertainment