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Black Black Bodies Sonata – Kayla Farris and Nik Owens. Screen shot image from the film by Deborah Corrales and Kayla Farrish. From Blog Director Jill Randall: It was very fun to look back over the past 51 weeks and all of the content on the blog. I hope that you will click through and…

Linda Tarnay in Doris Humphrey's "A New Dance." Photo courtesy of NYU.    Remembering Linda Tarnay By TaraMarie Perri   Linda Tarnay (March 29, 1943 – November 6, 2018) taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for 38 years and at ADF for 16 summers.   I am a graduate of NYU Tisch Dance…

Photo: Robbie Sweeny Hometown: Born in Atlanta, Georgia. Mostly grew up in Clarendon Hills, near Chicago, Illinois. Current city: San Francisco Age: 51 College and degree: BFA in Dance from Western Michigan University Graduate school and degree: MFA in Dance Performance/Pedagogy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (age 22) Websites: www.la-alternativa.us|www.freshfestival.org How you pay the bills: I teach classes…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: For this month, or this week, what about considering the idea of contentment in relation to your wellness? I am trying this one on. In much of the dance world, contentment is an unfamiliar word. We live in the arena of, "What are you working on right now?" Whether it…

The 2018 Artists’ Gratitude Project: A Weekly Practice The potential for positivity, hope, change, and appreciation. Do you feel the dichotomy? Many artists come from an upbringing of extensive support and opportunity – with training, classes, private lessons, workshops, mentors, supplies, and equipment. Many go onto colleges, conservatories, and masters programs. Yet, as artists in…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: I just completed the quick read of the tiny book How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-care by Marlee Grace. The book is more like a personal essay in book form with a lot of author self-reflection, but I enjoyed the experience of reading…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: Hello community! I know that it has been many months since I posted for this specific column (though the Artists' Gratitude Project is deeply related as well…check it out here). Today I wanted to share about some books related to wellness.  After many months of slowly moving through Overwhelmed: How…

Please join us this week as we engage with Molly Rose-Williams and her the collaborators for Social Movement, which premieres on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. Purchase your tickets here. Today we hear from collaborator Ky Woodward-Sollesnes. Ky Woodward-Sollesnes is a dancer, dance-maker, and an improviser. She got her undergraduate degree…

Please join us this week as we engage with Molly Rose-Williams and her the collaborators for Social Movement, which premieres on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. Purchase your tickets here. Today we hear from collaborator Galen Rogers. Galen Rogers grew up in San Francisco studying taiko, aikido, capoeira, and tablas.…

Please join us this week as we engage with Molly Rose-Williams and her the collaborators for Social Movement, which premieres on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. Purchase your tickets here. Today we hear from collaborator Jesse Wiener. Jesse Wiener grew up exploring movement in Minneapolis, MN, continued her study at…